Today saw another new arrival. A beautiful lanky oldie saluki cross boy who arrived from a stray pound situation. Leggy Cleggy or Clegg as he is to be known is around 9-10 years of age (vet estimate) and has the most sweet nature.
The poor boy is in a bit of a state at the moment, very underweight at only 25kg, with a mouthful of filthy teeth and seems to have a very sore bum and the runs and also possible worry of a water infection and what appear to be arthriticy stiff back hips.
I will be interested to see if after a couple of weeks of tlc and gentle excercise if the age estimation stays the same. Its amazing how many times we see them almost rejuvinate when into a warm loving foster environment. As he is guesstimated to be an older boy we made sure he bypassed the holding kennels and has headed straight to Sheffield into foster care.
Massive thanks to Nicky for collecting him and to Anna and David for fostering him on Gap's before. I hope its not long before we have him medically sorted and he is on his way to his forever home.
Here he is arriving at mine waiting to be collected ignore the weeds!!
and just hours later settling into his foster home looking much more comfortable and settled
Other news today this evening I did a fabulous homevisit for a lovely couple and there beautiful Beardie Collie girl. She recently lost her companion and has been mourning. However, she does have some problems with bringing new dogs into her home so we took Arnold over (who incidentally they fell in love with) and took them for a short walk together before walking them into the garden without stopping. She was fine and accepted it. We then risked moving into the house and apart from a couple of growls she actually enjoyed having him around. They will be meeting again this weekend and after a couple more introductions if she seems happy then Arnold may be heading home so fingers crossed.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
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Im the lucky one to have Clegg staying with me at the moment, hes such a sweetie full of vigour for life but so so thin, after a day of been quiet and not eaten hes settle dlovely and is now eating everything we give him, hes a pleasure to have even when he sprinkles in my house. i cant wait to see how much more handsome he gets when hes at a better weight. Oh and hes a lanky boy too at 29inch. anna.x.
Aaaaaah an oldie greyhoundxsaluki! That's Brad's fav lurcher cross, dare I show him the lovely Clegg?
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