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I always forget to take photos / video of the process of introducing dogs to cats, and then wish I had later. Sod's law says that this will be the dog where the process doesn't actually work, but I've taken photos anyway. Need to read manual to find out how to get video off the new camera, as it seems non-intuitive.

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We have a new foster lurcher. She's an 8 year old lurcher called Perdy, who has been with Oldies Club on and off for about nine months, after being handed in by owners who were working long hours and felt she shouldn't be left home alone all day. She's had several foster homes and has been adopted, but quickly returned, and then her fosterer got ill, so she was in kennels. So she's had rather a run of bad luck. It seemed like a nice well run kennels, and she very clearly liked the kennel staff. In fact, she was not at all keen to leave, and was panting rather a lot from stress when I put her in the car. But she has bashed her nose and cut it on the kennel wire. I think that is very hard to prevent. And I'm fairly sure she'd rather be in a house than a kennel in this weather, nice kennel or not.( Read more... )
ETA : yay: just took her downstairs to pop into garden for a pee and there was no barking at the cats at all!

I had said that I wasn't going to foster any more dogs while we still had Az, because he is so old and frail now and I didn't want to risk introducing any dogs he can't cope with. But...
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Chloe and Amber have a home offer! Their new owners are coming all the way from Kent to meet them tomorrow. They have 4 sheep and three horses and want dogs that will not chase them. C&A have shown zero signs of chasing anything other than dogs in the last three months, so I feel fairly confident about that.

Philmophlegm has reviewed them as a pair : "Probably the best foster dogs we've every had!" he said, glowingly. Clearly the tummy upsets, leg amputation, and disappearing dog have been forgiven...

A dogwalker from the village reviewed them less warmly "Goodness me! I never thought you'd get a home for them" she said, when I mentioned the adopters were on their way.

Now to see if I can manage to keep my resolution to leave off fostering for a bit.

Edited to add a photo of Philmophlegm dancing with Amber shortly before she left, just because it amuses me.
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As assorted people keep saying to me: 'isn't she doing well?'
You will note that Brythen is on the lead. This is because Brythen after several weeks of being a Very Good Dog, was a Bad Dog several times running, culminating in the occasion when he pulled the lead out of my hand a few days ago while road walking, and only came back after
a) I'd convinced myself that he'd tied himself to a tree somewhere deep in the woods and would never be seen again.
b) I'd spent ages rummaging for him through a very overgrown and steep field full of a giant badger set (with many, many holes) and fallen into a hole and cut my leg. And there was an owl.

( Chloe is pulling her solemn face because I told her to stop shouting 'WOO!' at collies. Chloe feels that dogs that have the temerity to walk about being collies require a damn good WOO-ing. )
( Amber kept grinning like a loon and then putting on her woeful face whenever I pointed the camera at her. But I caught her at it in the end )

Lunch with my mother, and my sister, who is just about to move to Canada. Originally they were going to buy a business in Vancouver, but apparently buying a Canadian business from the UK takes forever and involves 9999999 paperworks, so now T has accepted a job in Moncton, which is on the East coast which they have never actually visited. My sister will be moving out there to join him in April, and jobhunting when she gets there. I do hope they like it!
( Goodbye Smudge )( Amber's Op )

In other news, painting of Bedwyr harping for Artos and Cador of Dumnonia is slowly coming together although I do wish I'd put fewer faces in. But I suppose Faces are Good For Me. Bedwyr now has a face that actually looks like a face, although painting a face that is *supposed* to have a weird flying eyebrow and be 'ugly beautiful' is somewhat tough. I had a nightmare last night about a conspiracy of evil harpers. I'm pretty sure this was to do with checking too many harping websites for reference photos.

In the end I used this Youtube video as reference for a small portable harp and positioning the hands. It's not exactly The Great Music, but it is rather lovely.

Chloe foster dog remains a laid-back cuddly old teddy bear who loves everyone. We'd have a queue a mile long if she were looking for a home on her own, I reckon.

Amber foster dog... is more complicated.( Read more...(with photo!) )

Current Mood: confused

( Three Dog Photos )
( Decision )

In other news, Amber likes standing up on her back legs and offering her paws. I am hoping to train her to do so when I say 'Rory Calhoun'. :-D

Something of a nightmare weekend : foster dog Amber managed to get out of the garden, panicked and ran

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Amber (front) and Chloe (back) have come to visit as foster dogs. It was all a bit of a rush. The owner had died and as usual for January, rescues are bulging with Christmas puppies/dogs chucked out to make room for Christmas puppies, so these two were either going to the pound or to be put to sleep.

Thankfully, they are used to other dogs and cats ( I can't tell you how many calls we get about dogs that have literally not met another dog for years and years, which makes finding foster homes for them incredibly difficult. ) As Oldies Club doesn't deal with puppies, we managed to squeeze these two in as urgent extras and they came aaaaaallll the way from Yorkshire to Cornwall today before The Snow descends and the country gives up all hope of travel until it melts.
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Yesterday, Az was off his food. He did try a little lunch, but didn't keep it down, and was sick several times in the evening and overnight. Off to the vet this morning, he was given an antiemetic shot and antibiotics, and instructions to give him his heart pills by putting them down his throat. He didn't like this much, and soon brought them up again.

He hasn't brought up the antibiotic pills yet, but he won't eat anything, not even boiled chicken. This is all seeming horribly familiar. I am trying not to assume it is the same problem Mollydog had, because really, what are the odds? But it's worrying.

To add drama to disaster, I had a foster dog booked to arrive here tomorrow, a pointer called Danny. He's come from Greece and has tested positive for leishmaniasis, which is not a transmissible disease in the UK, but does mean his immune system is potentially compromised. We don't really have anywhere else to put him, so I am a bit worried I may have to bring him here anyway. I should, I think, be able to keep them separated if I have to, but it's not ideal. Stress stress stress stress.

Edit: 6pm. I've just left Az at the vet on a drip: he's been going downhill all today, and is now dehydrated and I can't get any medication into him orally. I feel terrible. Being left behind is one of Az's big fears and I've just done it to him.

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( Thing 2's new owner is picking her up tomorrow. I hope he's ready for her... (yes, she IS 12) )

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( photo, details of the brave (and ancient) gentleman adopter, and philmophlegm's foster dog review )

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( Hurry! Hurry! Enjoy it before it rains again! )

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( in which I ramble on and on, and there are some photos of my pets, for surely this is the core purpose of the internet... )

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Am currently living in terror that the garden will rise up and completely swallow the house, like a sort of untidy shaggy green monster. It keeps raining, causing everything to grow at a terrifying rate, yet making it impossible to mow things. The path in and out of the house has become perilously narrow, and the whole situation is starting to look as though someone has inadvertently pricked their finger and gone to sleep for 100 years...

( Gardening achieved )

( Foster dog Yogi and her New Hair. Caution, large photo of nude dog. )

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Dog WIP Day 2

Perdy Lurcher Landed

A little lurcher lady

Foster Dogs Reviews & Home Offer

The Power of Chicken

State of the Foster Dogs - 2 and a bit weeks post-amputation. And a Bad Dog.

State of the foster dogs, one week post-amputation

Dogs and Things

State of the foster dogs

Reversion to the norm : dog photos (and a resolution)

Arg : missing dog trauma

Two worried dogs have landed.

Mr Azoo is unwell.

Thing 1 & Thing 2

Yogi bear has a home offer at last!

It's summer : quick quick!

State of the Hounds update

Yogi - the video

Random Lurcher Looning

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