Yeah so, I really don't need another dog...and I know I can't save them all, but more than likely I will be getting another one. He is a Dane/American Bulldog cross and is horribly underweight at 62 lbs, his name is Joshua.
At the vet clinic I work at, we have boarding kennels, and this lady has boarded her 3 dogs with us since about March I think. One is the dog I'm speaking of, another is a SharPei/Chow cross and another is a pit. I guess she got kicked out of her house, couldn't find a place to live that would take the dogs, or someone to take the dogs, so she boards them now. She pays something like $1000/month just to board the dogs..and yet can't find a place to live that will allow her to take them....?Anyways, Joshua is just doing horribly. He had "happy tail", a condition where the end of tail gets gashed open from wagging it too much against a wall or something (in this case, the kennel), for the longest time, and was kept in a very small kennel for the longest time, until I got the bright idea to keep him in the extra large kennel so he has room to wag it. While he was in the small kennel, he got gastrititis or collitis or something, became severely dehydrated, etc. That was an extra $500 the lady had no problem spending. Anyways, since I've been there, the dog has been loosing weight. I've taken a special interest in him, and recently began playing with him in the outside area and such. He has gained 5 lbs in about a week with the interaction, and is eating ravenously whereas before he was barely eating canned food. His muscles are atrophying, though, from lack of use. But, he adores me. The only thing that stopped me from taking him before was that I thought he wouldn't be good with the cat, and I wasn't even sure about dogs. Well..when I went to weigh him a few days ago, the house cat came right up to him and all he did was try to clean him. I had Zoie with me today, and I introduced them and they did wonderful.
So I decided to talk to the office manager, because the owner had said she wanted to find a home specifically for him. When she comes in to pay her bill (usually every 2 weeks or so) he is going to talk to her about me trying him out here. As long as everything goes well and as planned, I'm going to take him. If I find that he is too high energy for my house and it's not going to work forever (I am putting up a fence tomorrow, but it's not a huge area), and I find someone that is interested in him that has a lot of space for him, I will give him to them. But until that point, anything is better than sitting in that kennel. Poor thing, I wish I could take him home tomorrow.
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~~~~ to take some Before pictures of Joshua, so you can show us an "After" picture!!!
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