Well I said about a week ago that I wanted to be able to get on BPO some more- yea right. I also said no more dogs this week- and well that hasnt exactly panned out for me either-
So lets start with May 2 or 3. I drove to Arkansas and got Mandy the little 4 month old Pyrenees who was in a kill shelter- she was one of the lucky ones- she got out- so many didnt. I think that she is part tasmanian devil- she has a temper that we have been working on- we call them Mandy moments. Mandy will get so mad her little eyes cross and then she lashes out. Seems that there was a little boy in her life previously and well we think that he must have teased her a lot. She is a sweet little girl though and when she is tired at nite- she wants to crawl in your lap so that you can hold her- she and Piglet are becoming buds- and Mandy loves to play in the kiddie pool.
Then I picked up a 7 week old pup that got so sick he was on IV's at the vets office for a couple of days, (he has now been adopted out) the following week I had to take one of our older rescues in and send her to the bridge- she was having grand mal seizures- it was an extremely tough decision to make. That very same week (which was last week actually) I had to take the Anatolian to be treated for HW's, so you see- I was not going to have a major dog week, this week- I was in overload.....
Well then it gets interesting- I got an email at 3:55 yesterday afternoon- there were 14 English Mastiffs with about 2 1/2 hours to live- they had been confiscated in some type of a raid earlier that day and since they were relinquished- there was not any extended time for them. The town where they were located is about 5 hours from me- I committed to taking all of them and then had to find someone to pull them-luckily I know some wonderful people in that town and immediatly got some help. There was 2 adults, 6 adolescents and 6 infants (4-8 weeks old)all pure bred English Mastiffs from one of "those" unscrupulous breeders.
By the time the group for me went to pull, the babies and one mom had been pulled and one of the adolescent males also went to another rescue group- I had sent another foster from up in this area to the city where they were located and they ended up bringing back five little girls who are about six months old and a older female who had just been worn out from breeding.
I have brought one of the little girls back home with me- I have a wonderful adoption application pending for her now. She is shy and skittish and just not sure about how to act- but she is also beautiful. The others are all in foster and one of the little girls has a tumor on her side. Our vet will be very busy next week with spays and medical care.
OH and then yesterday morning- we found a 4-5 week old border collie puppy in a ditch while driving to work... I am trying to over come my desire to keep her and make her my agility dog.... say a prayer to keep me strong.
In addition to that, I have a Pyr that I am fostering until we can get him to Tennessee, I will add another foster to the group for an over nite on Tuesday and we have pulled a pyrenees/golden mix from another kill shelter- we think that he may need eye surgery for the ingrown eye lashes- this was something that we had not counted on- but the shelter workers do what they can to get them off of death row, so even if they knew what was wrong, they didnt want to disclose that info.
I am going to post some pics of the little Mastiff princess, the border collie baby, Mandy in the pool and of course the Piglet who is still one of the sweetest pyr babies ever ( but then again all of the famous six will be special in my heart for the rest of my life)
Enjoy the pics- I hope that I didnt bore you guys and I really do miss BPO
