Aly & Lizbud, thank you so very much for your responses. Tibetan Spaniels are rather rare dogs which means that the breed rescue help has to try to stretch across a whole country...We have this challenge in Australia, too.

I agree with you...time would be quickly running out for this fella.

So sad because the special needs Grandpa or Grandma Dogs make wonderful gentle pets as they happily live out their lives. We adopted an 8 yr old rescue Grandma Tibbie..& friends adopted another 10 yr old rescue Tib..

I'll email the Tib Rescue person, too...to say that someone is trying to contact her re this fella. Thank you once again.