It is time to say goodbye soon.
 

We adopted Dusty, the gregarious male long hair black kitten 13 years ago on May 15.My Ex is flying home from work tonight, to be with him during his final days. Dusty wants to say goodbye soon. His jaw cancer has taken it's toll and it is time.

We will take him for his final ride this week, and grieve another loss. She will be inconsolable and I know it. We lost his younger brother in Dec. to bowel cancer. I worry about her, and her never ending grief. :(

I watched the movie "You Don't Know Jack" and realized how fortunate pets are.

I am so sorry Tommi. It is never easy saying goodbye to our furkids. I'm sending prayers to you all.

So sad.

Have you alerted your shelter? Our shelter has books where people can list their lost pets, they also post found animals.

Petfinder.org also allows you to post found pets.

Craigslist but be careful. Be careful with the amount of disclosure, make the caller tell you about the dog.

Signs posted around the neighborhood, if you can, are always the best source.

This morning Dusty will be pain free.
 

I drove transport yesterday for a beautiful little red girl with green eyes. Certainly not to the standard, but they were interesting. She was afraid of freeway overpasses and ducked every time we went under one. She's safe in the rescue now.

On another note, check this out.

dobe/deer/dog
 

[QUOTE=Diavolo;96939]I drove transport yesterday for a beautiful little red girl with green eyes. Certainly not to the standard, but they were interesting. She was afraid of freeway overpasses and ducked every time we went under one. She's safe in the rescue now.

{{{diavolo}}} you are a lovely soul. thank you for helping all of the dobes that you do, by travelling them to foster/rescue homes.

great videos :sheep:

happy sunday to you- may it be extra beautiful. you deserve it :)

belle

Just found a cute little black kitten maybe 7 weeks old, taped up in a box on the street. looking for a home in the nyc area - though I'm falling in love fast. someone save me! :) I have 5 already.... she's damn cute though. sigh.

(Snip: Kimbo) I'm probably considered a bit crazy by many when it comes to my opinion of animals. I rescue them often..I have 6 cats myself and am constantly trapping something in my neighborhood to get spayed or neutered.

I am the crazy cat lady with my family, some freinds and mostly at work. I have since 2005 altered 60 cats. My motto you come for dinner you will leave fixed. (ha) Anyways, i was recovering from chemo/breast cancer beginning of 06 and noticed cats and babys.. so i did research on the net and found out about some programs that i could trap ferals and bring them into the SPCA for 15.00 (single and limited money) worked for me, plus people helped my cause and donated for some $ here and there.

Nice to here other people doing the same (kudoz) i wont stop and i help my freinds out now since i have seemed to altered every cat in my blocks radious.

Dam Skippy

I get that DamSkippy, I have 6 cats myself. No more can come here, house rules and my commitment to my neighbors.

One resourse here that I am very fortunate to have access to is the feral cat project. She is having a rough time..I'm going to help her trap a soon to be mama cat. I also have another tom in my area that an appt is being made for.


http://www.feralcatproject.org/

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This is Bella!

She is my latest rescue.
She still has much doctoring to get her better but she looks incredible from what she looked like when I first got her a couple months ago.

She and her sisters were thrown outside and left to die. Unfortunately the other girls did not make it. But my Bella is thriving.

Her wounds on her face down her nose are not healing very quickly though.

She has no voice except a strange sound every once and awhile. Her one eye is is partically blind and she is a lil slow. But she is so very thankful and lovable! She has become my lil shadow actually!

She has gained weight and the sore she had all over her body are healed now except for her face.

I am sooo glad she chose to come to me.

I just wanted to share with all of you animal lovers...I trapped 2 of my 7 feral cats today to go get medical attention and to be spayed/neutered. They will be back on Wednesday and I pray everything goes well.

I pulled a young Doberman out of Oakland last week. He'd been there two weeks and was totally withdrawn. He was collapsing in the shelter. Dobermans will do that. One of the gals there told me that he had become unadoptable but they knew he was a good dog and didn't want to have to put him down.

He's heading to the rescue on Sunday and he already has a new family interested and coming to see him next week. The lady sounds awesome, they've adopted from the rescue before. I hope they take him. I just love him, he's a great little dog.

Meet Sherman.



The red one is my Rita and the blue one is my Bubba.

I posted this in the Pets thread, but thought that some of you dealing more with rescue canines might have some ideas for the transition/socialization of Sookie, our latest Giant Schnauzer rescue.

All of our schnauzer pack are rescues. Max who is almost 22/23, Scooter was a Katrina rescue boy and Samson also came out of rescue.

Here is my conundrum. In all my years of having rescues as pets, I usually get the overly excited to have a home, in your face untrained behaviored pups.

Not our Sookie. While she has made great strides the last couple of days, I have never had a dog that just wanted to den up and be completely isolated. Since she came out of a horrific situation where she was found in a medium crate with a full size shephard, and obviously had no socialization/training, I am not expecting her to just perk up and be all, "Yay, I have a home" but I do want to figure out how to ease her process without reinforcing the behavior of isolating herself.

Treat bribing isnt working (I know Caesar would have my head for trying it), and she has started to come up to us for affection. I am hopeful that its just a time and patience thing. Ya'll all should know I have the patience of a gnat!

Any ideas for how we can facilitate the process?

Her comfort zone is going to be the crate, but she needs to get out. I would hook her up on the lead at regular times during the day and take her for a walk. She'll hate it at first but then it will become part of her routine and she will bond with you and eventually come out of the crate. She needs to go for dog walks with you, take her. It's the right thing to do. The best day will be when she walks over to you and puts her head in your lap. Or does the happy dance for a walk. It'll come. Sherman came out to me while I was reading in the yard and licked my arm today. Huge progress since last Friday.