My Foster Dogs

[luvofallhorses]

No problem! I expect more pics as they are growing.. they probably sleep right now a lot.

[Freedom]

Bless you for taking in Hope and her babies! They are among the few lucky ones.

I only learned about MDAS from FB. They receive in 100 dogs PER DAY! And euthanize as many as they just don't have space. It is very sad. (I don't have info on cats, but it is equally bad.)

Sadly, many rescue groups, like the one I am with, are banned from pulling dogs there! They insist they must do a home visit, and most times we don't have a local foster home opening for the dog; we would fly it to an open home.

[Candy317]

Bless you for taking in Hope and her babies! They are among the few lucky ones.

I only learned about MDAS from FB. They receive in 100 dogs PER DAY! And euthanize as many as they just don't have space. It is very sad. (I don't have info on cats, but it is equally bad.)

Sadly, many rescue groups, like the one I am with, are banned from pulling dogs there! They insist they must do a home visit, and most times we don't have a local foster home opening for the dog; we would fly it to an open home.

Uggh that sucks, they have SO MANY purebreds, small breeds, puppies, its insane, last time I checked they had over 300 dogs currently at the shelter. I know it would be ideal for areas were shelters that don't get small dogs/puppies alot and have requests that they would ship these dogs out! So many rare breeds come in too like filas and even english bulldogs and once I've even seen a french bulldog and an afghan hound!!

I mean I would volunteer for the kill shelter in my own county, but its SO bad there, I decided to help out for that shelter. Even the rescue group I got the fosters from are located in my county, this shelter needs as much help as it can. Even rescues are overwhelmed with pulling dogs from there, even the small breed rescues like yorkies, chihuahuas, ect. They don't even have ac/heat for the dogs! Then they don't even vaccinate the dogs that don't have pending adopters so illnesses spread quickly there.

I tried to get my friend to adopt a pit bull from there (since he's from the county I'm from where pit bulls aren't banned unlike Miami, so they don't adopt them out to Miami residents) but was discouraged from all the sickly looking dogs they had, which I don't blame him, he ended up adopting a pit from a shelter here....he also said he didn't even see the pit bulls, which they keep away from the public that goes in a different ward

Are you apart of a bichon rescue? They get soooooooooo many bichons but label them poodles. I can image rescues that have more requests than actual dogs would love to pull from this shelter, they get a huge amount of dogs from almsot every breed imageable!

[Candy317]

The rescue info has changed, for adoption its this website...http://www.bekindtoanimalsrescue.com/

Some good quality pics from today thanks to the person who rescued them came by for a visit.

[chocolatepuppy]

Oh my gosh! I want one!!!

[Candy317]

Things are not looking good She stopped producing milk so the pups are getting formula and IV fluid because they were really dehydrated along with the mom, who had loose stools and lost alot of fluids in the past few days from it. They all came with discharge from their eyes and nose and are very weak. Two puppies did not make it Out of the remaining five, I'll say maybe 3-4 will make it, the vet doesn't seem too sure any will survive.

The vet thinks she might have distemper. Which would explain the discharge, loose stools, kinda depress, and her not eating alot and that she came in real thin despite of being in the shelter for two weeks I believe. Her temp was taken today and it was 103 which I believe is a fever, it was 102 yesterday, she also vomitted today. The shelter is a breeding ground for illnesses and alot of parvo and distemper cases from that shelter since they often don't vaccinate until they have an adopter.

Did a parvo test today and it came out negative thank god, just waiting on the distemper test to come back. Can you guys give Hope and the pups some vibes that its not distemper and that if its just an infection/bacteria that they have as so far the fecal test shows that they get better?

[chocolatepuppy]

Oh no! Pawsitive thoughts and prayers for Hope and her remaining puppies. Rest in Peace two little puppies.

[Candy317]

No problem! I expect more pics as they are growing.. they probably sleep right now a lot.

Pretty much lol, can you image when they start walking around

Here's a pic of them from today..