Month: June 2009

Sawyer went to his new home in southeren Indania. He has found his perfect spot as an only dogs with a family that can spoil him. Sawyers owner had a type of home that would best suit him and his new home fits to a tee!

Sawyer is an almost 41/2 year old boy that is a retired show dog. He has had issues with other dogs in the home and we all are decided that Sawyer will do best as an only dog. We are working with his owner and his breeder to find him a home where he will be happy for the rest of his life without having to compete with another dog. He will be staying at his old home until a new one is found, and is not in foster.

Max is a year and a half old intact male. He has begun to not get along with the other dogs in the household. Like Sawyer (below), Max has picked a few fights with his housemates. He is fine with people. He would do better as an only dog. He will need to be neutered, which may help with his dominance issues. We will post more as we find out more about him. He is still in the home but will most likely go into foster for evaluation. He has shown some resource guarding and what might be just him feeling his adolescence. feel free to contact us for more information, if this site is not updates in a few days.

Update 6/20

It is not certain if max will be coming or not. The owners had recently taken in a rescued intact mastiff and this is the dog he had problems with. They have removed the mastiff, (unknown if temporary or permanent) and Max has returned to his loving self. they are going to evaluate more this weekend and let us know if he still needs a home or not.

Update July 3rd, 2009

Max was neutered Monday and has gone into foster. He seems to get along with female dogs, and it is unknown about neutered males. He definitely does not like intact males. So far he seems to be well behaved and likes people very much. He has only been in foster for 24 hours, so we are still learning about him. He is update on shots and will be 2 years old in Sept.

 

Cash just came in on May 25^th. Cash is a beautiful stocky boy withourfavorite boxy head. He is 6-1/2 years old and still intact. With no issues. Very friendly and loving. We noticed the first day he walked strangely. We asked his owners and they said he has never had any issues, other than about 2 weeks ago he tried to jump into the truck and missed, falling backwards. So we thought he might have hurt something. But he seemed to show more signs of something worse that s sprain or strain. He was not tip toeing so we did not think ACL. We thought hips or spine. We were going to have him neutered right away but decided to have his other issues checked first to see what is going on. His hips, knees and spine x-rayed as fine. So now we are looking at a neurological source. We are starting to think he may have

Degenerative Myelopathy. He is sometime dragging his rear when he trips running and stands with his rear feet tight together which makes him wobbly. We have even seen him with his back legs crossed while eating. Also found it the x-ray was a hugely enlarged prostrate about the size of a tennis ball.

UPDATE: 6-15-09

     Cash, now being called “Cashew”, is doing better and we have seen much less of the weakness to his rear end, but still see some occasionally. He was neutered last Monday and acted like he never even noticed. We are hoping that the neuter will reduce the size of his prostate, the vet seems to think it will. He palpated the gland and felt that it was more hormone related rather than a growth. He has already been more regularllybeen able to poop, which is good. If Cashew is still here, we will have him re-checked via x-ray in a month.

Update 7-13-09

Cash is still here as no one has shown interest in him. We will have is his prostrate checked next week, but he is only slightly improved on his bowel control. He suddenly has to go without warning. When he feels it pass the blockage he will make a dash for the door but sometimes it catches him by surprise. He hate doing it and looks at us as if to say he’s sorry. He also has been getting the GUPLS once or twice a week. These are kind of like a combination of gastritis and a panic attack. We have learned to control them with Pepcid Complete and Gas -X and get him to relax and they usually only last about 10 minutes. They are just scary if you don’t know what they are. the first time we saw it, he was off to the ER, thinking it was Bloat.