Fri 11th Jan: Life is never fair

Brindle pug Zola was adopted today

Was it only last Sunday that we took in the six pugs, one poodle and the two little pups?  Every day is filled with dogs coming and going and it seems much longer, but today the babies were picked up after their vet check and the first of the pugs, the brindle girl Zola, was adopted.  I expect we'll see a few of the others leaving very soon, if not all of them, and there was also great news from pug Roley's trial home that he'll be staying for good.

Roley is now Jabba, and he has a new brother too

It's an indisputable fact that life isn't fair, in fact it's often cruel and very sad.  I took an old poodle from AFCD today after she had been surrendered to be put to sleep, and in these cases I don't really care if there's nothing that can be done to help the dogs, I just don't want them to die like that, alone and without any kind of love.  This girl is thirteen years old, overweight, blind and with the typical skin allergy that poodles suffer from.  She was crying in the crate while we sat in the waiting room at Acorn, a heart-rending yabba yabba yabba, and I could imagine her confusion.  Blood tests showed nothing particularly abnormal so we'll treat the skin and have her groomed so she looks better, and after losing some weight I think that will help too.  I still use beagle Stinker as a reminder of these no-hope cases, because so far he's still doing well and seems to be happy.

Old and blind but still with a reason to live

While I was at Acorn I also had to make the difficult decision to let young husky Nigel go after his breathing problem returned and he was left gasping for air.  He came to us from a breeder with a serious lung infection, and although we treated him with with specialised injectable antibiotics, after a brief period of seeming to get better the infection returned.  His lungs were so badly scarred that even  without the pneumonia his quality of life would have been poor, and on top of everything else there was a danger of him passing on the infection to other dogs and even humans.

Sadly Nigel's life was very short

While one life ends there are always new lives beginning, and hopefully this weekend means homes for our lovely puppies.  We have so many right now it's impossible to pick just one or two as they are all lovely.  However I'm still rooting for the sisters Pollen and Rose if for no other reason than I have one adult dog exactly the same living with me on Lamma so I know the final size (medium) and temperament (wonderfully sweet and affectionate).  Here are the photos from last Sunday's Whiskers N Paws afternoon Puppy Adoption Day 6 January 2019, and we'll be back this Sunday if you want to meet any of these beautiful youngsters .

Janie is one of my Lamma dogs and she is the sweetest cuddler

Sweet sisters Rose and Pollen