Oh yeah...and we have another foster

This was a crazy weekend.

So I've mentioned before that Craiglist is evil, right (see deaf boxer below)?

I was browsing on there again the other day, and I stumble across a pureBREAD (annoying misspelling by Craigslist idiots) Japanese Chin. He has been listed previously, and I suggested they contact Chin rescue, but apparently they weren't interested.

So I stepped in, "adopted" him, and am sending him off to Chin rescue myself! Deceiving? Maybe. But I'm more concerned that this fella gets to a safe home, and there are too many sketchballs on Craigslist.

So this is Gil. He'll be making his way to a foster home with Chin rescue sometime soon. He'll getting neutered Thursday, and hopefully will be on his merry little way soon!



Speaking of Craiglist sketchballs, listen to this other gem from this weekend.

I also saw an 8-month-old "special needs" Boston Terrier. And, like a dummy, I was going to get him too. Long story short(er), the lady selling him for $150 or two bags of Science Diet (crap) dog food said she ran a rescue. Said 'rescue' is apparently being investigated by the state for being sketchy. She bought this dog 2 days prior with the intention of breeding him (kind of the opposite mentality of someone running a rescue), and a quick google search shows she sold a litter in January too. She was 'rehoming' because he was sick, and she has another really sick dog at home (which I'm guessing she's going to breed too). She was going to do a background check on me and require that I show proof of neutering. Upon hearing the dog would be neutered (which is why we step into the Craigslist situations, so the dogs can't breed), and then realizing how freaking crazy this witch was, we decided to back out. Craziness.

I think Kyle is blocking Craigslist on our computers. Smart move.

Yikes! I'm still a bad blogger

I super suck at keeping on top of blogging.

Anyway, so, things have been...shall we say, hectic around here.



Emma's still here and doing great. I have a feeling we're going to keep her. Kyle and I both keep dancing around the subject, but I think we both know the others' position on it. We still have Colby, but once he gets adopted we're going to see how Emma interacts in our house when it's just the permanent residents. Assuming she meshes well (particularly with crabby pants Rocco) when she doesn't have her living squeaky toy Colby to play with, I think Miss Emeline has found her home.

Tomorrow is her last day for her UTI meds, and her peeing has gotten much less frequent, which is so great! We've been working on using potty bells with her so she can let us know when she has to go out, and it's working really well. We've still had a few accidents, but they have mostly been our our fault.

I also think I want to enroll her in a training course soon. If we do keep her, I'm going to eventually have her take the Canine Good Citizen test, so we should start her out early!

Yesterday's transport

Kyle and I transported 3 cats and a dog yesterday (another group making their way from a high kill shelter in Kansas to a no-kill rescue in the northeast). The cats were easy as pie - they didn't make a peep, and just sat in their crates. The dog, Henry, was really sweet, and rode the whole way on Kyle's shoulder, like this:


It was pretty adorable. We did get one picture of him while he wasn't attached to Kyle's shoulder:
He was quite the handsome boy. I hope he and all the others on the transport get wonderful homes really quickly!

Emeline

Deaf boxer's name is Emeline (or Emma for short), and in the two weeks we've had her, she's done incredibly well.

She's a smart cookie. Has hand signals down for a few commands. Knows she better have her butt planted on the ground if she's to get a treat. We're working on bell training when she needs to go to the bathroom. So far, so good.

She was spayed last week, and she recovered just fine from that. I was a little concerned with the amount she was urinating (I didn't know if it was her, or my lack of being around a big dogs long-term recently), so I took a sample into the vet, and she has some kind of mild bladder infection. She's on 3 weeks of medication to clear that all up.

It was a beautiful day here yesterday (62 in January is always welcome in my book), so I took Emma and Lizzi out to the dog park. Emma was in love with it! I took her to the farthest corner away from the gate and had her running around on a 30 foot lead. Once I realized she was pretty decent at coming back when signaled, and was content to stay close to Lizzi, I decided to be brave and let her have the full run of the park. She ran around for an hour and a half like a crazy woman! I think she was so excited to have a lot of dogs who were actually interested in playing rough with her (unlike what happens at our house). I cannot wait until the weather gets warmer so she can go more often. Wait...that's assuming we still have her when the weather is warm...

We also still have Colby. We're just shy of two months with him, which really, really surprises me. I really thought he'd have a home quickly. Hopefully soon. If you know of anyone who wants a slightly older, but still extremely spunky chihuahua mix, please let me know! :)

Our overnight guests

Last night we had a couple of house guests who were saved just in the nick of time from being euthanized, and are now on a transport heading to a rescue in New Jersey (crazy northeast always having room for more rescue dogs).

The doxie mix was absolutely adorable - I almost just didn't send her on the rest of her journey. The other guy, a lhasa apso, was quite nice, but he was SO sick - very snotty, sneezy, coughy...yuck. But he's safe now, and well on his way to getting healthy and finding a great home!

Colby!

This is Colby, a 5-year-old Chihuahua mix.

The thing is, Fritz was supposed to be our last foster for CMHS. Those who know me well know that I have control issues, and the fact that I don't have a ton of say in where my fosters are placed really irks me. I'm not comfortable with them going to just an adequate home. I want them to go to the best home, and I'll keep them as long as it takes to find that home. That's not really how it works with CMHS, so I was looking at other options.

Anyway, a month ago I went into the shelter to collect signatures for the puppymill store boycott, and was (jokingly?) asked if I wanted to foster a chi. Colby had bitten someone in the shelter out of fear, and so his options were either find a foster home or be euthanized. He was such a needy attention whore, and I can't really say no when I feel that I'm literally their last hope, so I agreed to foster him.

Colby had a bad, bad teeth issue when we first got him. His breath was awful. Absolutely horrid. Like, gag-inducing horrid. He had a ton of plaque, and his teeth were basically like, fused together with plaque. He lost 7 teeth over the course of a week. After 3 weeks, we finally got him into the shelter vet to get his teeth cleaned, where he had 3 more teeth pulled, including an abscessed tooth which was causing him to squint his eye on the time.

So now Colby is all fixed up and ready to go to his forever home. He's so very snuggly - he sleeps under the covers every night. Such a love bug. So someone adopt him, okay?

Wow, how much do I suck?

I'm not very good at keeping on top of blogging.

Here's what's been happenin' in our house (in no particular order):

1. Naomi went to her new home a monthish ago, and she's trying her best to charm her new brother. All is working out well so far, which is great!

2. Fritz was adopted 3 weeks ago by a great family in Rocheport, and apparently has made himself right at home and is acting like he's been there for years! That makes me very happy.

3. We got a new foster, Colby, a 5-year-old chihuahua a few weeks ago, and he is absolutely precious (he'll get his own separate post).

4. Christmas meant 6 dogs at my mom's house (her 2, our 2, our foster, and my brother's dog). That's always a fun time. Fortunately all went relatively well (except a small food aggression issue brought on by Colby, but that was my fault).

5. We got a really big aquarium for Christmas from my dad. Now we're working

6. We have yet another new foster who we got 2 days ago, and she'll get her own post too.

7. I'm going to vow to suck less when it comes to blogging. Not that I write about anything interesting, but still...

8. So, if you read a few months back, I tried to start the C25K running program...yeah, that didn't happen. But I'm starting again, and damn it, I'm going to finish it this time.

9. I stopped drinking soda (just for a month) as a new year's resolution. As a result, I'm suffering from a wicked bad caffeine withdrawal headache. That sucks.

10. I just wanted a #10 to have an even number. Additional blogs on new fosters to follow. Probably tomorrow though - I'm tired.