An oldie foster dog has landed.

[bunn]

He has come to stay for a while until he finds his forever home. We've not had a Golden Retriever before, so it will make a change from all the lurchers.

He transferred to Oldies Club from a kennel-based rescue in Wales because he wasn't doing very well in kennels.  He has bald patches on his feet where he's been nibbling them.   Supposedly he is only 10, but at the moment he seems older: he struggles a bit with steps, and standing up when he's been lying down a while.  But it may be that he will seem younger once he's had a good sleep: he has had a rather busy day.   I didn't take him for our usual long evening walk with Rosie and Brythen, because he was clearly worn out.  We did a little 'introduction' walk when he arrived, to make sure Rosie wasn't going to try to eat him, and that was more than enough.

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Oh, bless him! How could anyone resist him and his fluffy toy!

I hope he settles in well and soon finds his new family.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Isn't he? I cannot really find any excuses for the family who owned him from a pup, then handed him in to sit in a kennel and break his heart when he was old and had wobbly legs, and could not cope with a toddler in the house who kept grabbing at him.
It makes me very cross.

[songblaze.livejournal.com]

Those kinds of people just kill me. Ugh. I just cannot begin to come up with an excuse for that, no elderly animal deserves to be separated from their people (though of course I understand the sad choice that has to be made if said people are unable to care for their pet any longer). My parents' old, easily frightened, deaf and half-blind cocker mix survived my nephew's overly affectionate towards dogs baby and toddler years because my parents used baby gates to fence off areas to keep the nephew away from the dog if they weren't keeping a close eye on both (my parents were his primary caretakers until he was out of diapers). Yes, there were occasions when they slipped up and poor old Buddy got glommed on because he either was asleep or my nephew came up from behind, but on the whole they were able to manage the two so that Buddy was mostly left in peace.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Oh that makes me so cross! Dogs are for life, you don't ditch them when they become old and infirm unless you genuinely can't cope for a proper reason, a reason which is not having a toddler which requires wrangling in my book :( Poor old man.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

VERY MUCH THIS!

Baby gates are not exactly hard to come by.