You guys are NOT going to believe this!!!


We found the owners when we weren't even trying. My roomie just called me (I'm not home, I'm housesitting right now). She went out to buy smokes and took the dogs with her. In order to get to the gas station you have to pass by the dog park (the area in Westbank where I found her). On the way back, she slowed down to look at the dogs, and a guy, about 15 years old, ran up to her and was yelling "hey hey!" He was looking at Hope (whose name is Maggie btw). Anne asked if it was his dog, and he said yes. She told him everything that we've been doing, and he didn't really seem to care. She asked him if he knew she was sick, and he said yes, but she's 14 or 15 (my goodness, this dog looks 5 years)!!! And he ACTUALLY (not joking at all) just told her that she could have him. He went back down to the beach, asked his dad, came back, and said "Yeah, we don't want it." They've had this dog for FIFTEEN YEARS, and suddenly they don't want it. I'm glad they are idiots because I want to find her a new home with people that will take care of her.

However, Anne has something else to think about. She's gotten attached to Maggie...I knew this would happen...She already has a chihuahua, a shi tzu mix, and I have my Belgian groenendael foster that I might be keeping, AND I'm getting my catahoula next year. It's not like we don't have the room...I just don't want her to regret having such a housefull! I wouldn't mind keeping the dog around at all. She's a real sweetie. But what is the vet going to say when they realise that we are keeping her? Will everyone think this was some huge fraud just so that we don't have to pay for her surgery ourselves? We're doing this under the understanding that we are rescuing this dog and fostering her until she finds a new home. I don't know what people will think. We'll have to call Canine Communications back and talk to them about it. But what if they won't pay for the surgery? It's not like I can't pay for it myself...$800 is just an awful lot of money when it's not even my dog, even if Anne does keep her. I will really need to think hard about it if I'm put in that situation. In the end it is the dog's life that matters and I will do what it takes to save her.

This is just amazing. To find the owners just like that, when we weren't even looking. I wish I wasn't housesitting so I could give that guy a piece of my mind. Anne said that when Maggie saw the guy, she moved to the other side of the car and put her head out the window to get as far away as she could. I thought she was missing her family, the way she's been acting.

I feel like crying. People can be so terrible.

I'll need to get some pictures soon so you can all see how beautiful she is.



Originally posted by king2005

but whats pyomtera?
It's an infection of the uterus. It can be quite fatal. The way my vet described it, "her uterus is filled with puss."