Columbia Second Chance was able to take in Heidi and get her taken care of. They think it isn't cancer, but a salivary gland infection. Apparently it's healing up quite well and she's now listed on their Web site as adoptable.
Hooray!
Monday, November 19, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Gracie Ann
Hmmm, this is quickly becoming my foster dog log...
Here's Gracie Ann. Our third foster dog, she's been with us the longest because of a series of health problems beginning with kennel cough.
If you look at the full size version of the picture above, you'll also see that her one eye is a little red. It became very eventually. Now she has to wear an Elizabethan Collar, or e-collar (so named because, like Al Bundy, Elizabethan-era Brits were prone to scratching themselves and, thus, needed to wear these crazy collars).
Also, she keeps breaking it, so now it's pieced together with duct tape. It's pretty hilarious looking in a pitiful sort of way.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Like Fruit Rollups, it comes by the foot!
Meet Heidi, foster number 2:
Heidi likes to eat something a little different. It's white and comes in long rolls. She finds it spooled up in the bathroom and just starts nibbling.
A doberman/hound mix, Heidi came to us with a bad case of kennel cough as well as a nasty dog-like flu which the Shelter referred to as "snot nose." She was really sluggish and didn't like to move around too much. It was pitiful.
Now, however, she won't stop moving. She wants to wrestle with anyone 24 hours a day with maybe a short break to eat.
In the time she's been with us, she's also gotten to about 90% housebroken too. Most likely this is building on the work of some other loving foster families, but she has been progressing really quickly. She's really an adorable, happy, little bug-eyed cutie.
She keeps playing despite 3 worrisome growths we've discovered on her neck. The vet is not sure what they are, could be anything from an odd infection to cancer. The shelter is not set up to do a biopsy, which is what she really needs. They're contacting other animal rescues to see if anyone else would be able to help out.
Keep your fingers crossed. With so many dogs needing homes and so few resources to help, it is really hard to point to one dog and say "that one deserves some extra attention." But when she's lived in your home for a week - a crazy, hectic week at that - it's so hard to hear that she may be too sick to place.
Wish her luck!
Heidi likes to eat something a little different. It's white and comes in long rolls. She finds it spooled up in the bathroom and just starts nibbling.
A doberman/hound mix, Heidi came to us with a bad case of kennel cough as well as a nasty dog-like flu which the Shelter referred to as "snot nose." She was really sluggish and didn't like to move around too much. It was pitiful.
Now, however, she won't stop moving. She wants to wrestle with anyone 24 hours a day with maybe a short break to eat.
In the time she's been with us, she's also gotten to about 90% housebroken too. Most likely this is building on the work of some other loving foster families, but she has been progressing really quickly. She's really an adorable, happy, little bug-eyed cutie.
She keeps playing despite 3 worrisome growths we've discovered on her neck. The vet is not sure what they are, could be anything from an odd infection to cancer. The shelter is not set up to do a biopsy, which is what she really needs. They're contacting other animal rescues to see if anyone else would be able to help out.
Keep your fingers crossed. With so many dogs needing homes and so few resources to help, it is really hard to point to one dog and say "that one deserves some extra attention." But when she's lived in your home for a week - a crazy, hectic week at that - it's so hard to hear that she may be too sick to place.
Wish her luck!
Sunday, October 21, 2007
A home for Pepper Blossom
Pepper has already been adopted! We'll get another foster dog later today - some sort of Doberman mix.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Foster Dog!
A few weeks ago we sent in an application to become dog foster parents for the Central Missouri Humane Society. A short training session later, and our first foster dog arrived yesterday, Pepper Blossom.
CMHS is smart. They start you off with the easy dogs.
Pepper (or Peps, or Peppy, or Pepsid AC, or The Peppinator) is just getting over a case of kennel cough. She is incredibly sweet and likes to stretch out across your lap on the couch or in the bed.
Even more importantly, all of the dogs and Hank have been receptive of Pepper. We were a little worried they wouldn't be happy with intruders, but they've been excellent.
Pepper is active, happy and thoroughly enjoys wrestling with Buddy (which is a godsend for Bailey who, frankly, is getting sick of babysitting the little punk). And she is currently trying to eat a cardboard box...
...ok... I've stopped her.
Congratulations, Pepper! You've rightfully earned a place on Stuff My Dog Ate.
Behold the cardboard box:
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Bandito!
Now that we have a backyard we thought it would be swell to have a bird feeder. The intent was to attract some nice flying friends... the right kind of critters.
The actual effect is less than desirable.
Our backyard is now overrun with these varmints. At one point, there were three of them eating bird seed at once - two on the ground and one knocking sunflower seeds to his buddies between bites.
All three dogs go apeshit any time they spot one of these buggers.
The actual effect is less than desirable.
Our backyard is now overrun with these varmints. At one point, there were three of them eating bird seed at once - two on the ground and one knocking sunflower seeds to his buddies between bites.
All three dogs go apeshit any time they spot one of these buggers.
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