Temptation

[bunn]

A sighthound rescue of my acquaintance has just put out a call for a foster home needed for a deerhound x wolfhound, 4 years old, no interest in rabbits or birds (so therefore more than likely cat safe), very gentle.

I am sitting on my hands.   Oh yes I am.  It would be a most bad idea for me to volunteer, for we are going away to attend a weekend wedding soon, and also hoping to be able to book a holiday, which would be muchly complicated by the presence of a ginormofoster (three-dog accommodation is hard to find).   Gah!  Why do the dream dogs come along at inadvisable times???

Edited on Thursday to add: doubly inadvisable times.  Brythen has gone down with kennel cough today, and Az has now started coughing too.  Back to vet with Az tomorrow, I can see, and I have had to cancel taking B to Dog School this month, as he is infectious - which is annoying when I paid for 8 lessons up front!  Oh well, it was only £40.  Dog school is cheap. :-D

Brythen was weighed at the vet (for his antibiotics: KC is a virus, but apparently there is a bacterial element), and he now comes in at 27.5 kilos, which is about the same as Mollydog in her prime, although I think B is taller and slenderer than Molls ever was. B was 24 kilos when I adopted him, and still doesn't have any surplus, thus confirming the Big Puppy theory. 

Comments

[mcmurphy79.livejournal.com]

Oh my, I'd be tempted too.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that others will feel the same and therefore this lad will have lots of offers, although there's always a that worry, even with an appealing sort of dog. And he must be awfully big, a lot of people will find that a bit hard to work around.

I have a couple of dogs that didn't make it that I always have in the back of my mind when I read these things - one a 9 year old West Highland, and another time an 11 year old collie. Both in good health, both eminently adoptable - both put to sleep by owner because no rescue space available fast enough. :-( Just can't assume any type or breed will really be safe.

[mcmurphy79.livejournal.com]

Oh that is awful, :-( but we can only do what we can or we'd be overrun. It's so difficult. I've been avoiding the rescue I foster for as I know we can't at the moment, we can't risk a bad dog in my state. Poppy was our last for a while.

Hopefully he will find somewhere.

If I weren't pregnant! G always agrees to a foster and always steps up to help out. He's a softy like me.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Exactly - got to be sensible! (Specially you with the baby coming!)

The other side of the 'dogs that didn't make it but stick in your mind' is the people who took on a dog that they couldn't handle and then it all went pearshaped. Oldies used to get a fair few calls of that nature.

[mcmurphy79.livejournal.com]

Well quite. Best to find the right foster home than panic and get the wrong one.

We couldn't handle Poppy really, although that was as much the rescues mistake as ours. She was literally homeless and had nowhere and because she was left on her own for vast periods of time we all thought she might fit in here with 2 quiet, old hounds and us both working. Turns out a little bit of attention switched her SA into overdrive and she couldn't cope. Poor lass. I was stressed all the time worrying she wasn't coping and called my mum in to stay with her, G took her to work but it was clear she needed someone around most of the time. Heavens knows what my old, steady hounds must have thought.

But hells bells she was a wonderful dog. Luckily another brilliant fosterer was having her foster move to a forever home and Pops went there. She's doing so well. Broke Gs heart mind.

However all the other foster dogs have been fine, even Baxter who was aggressive and mental but I wouldn"t want to risk getting one like him again!

My hounds love having me home but Sal is being weird. They are no longer allowed upstairs so she is taking it upon herself to sit on the stairs and whine if she knows I am up there.