We did a rescue yesterday. From the home of another "rescuer" who had become, essentially, a hoarder. It's a difficult line to demarcate. I have found that one needs to set very strict upper end limits on the number of fosters one takes in.
My limit here is ten. At any given time, I can handle ten dogs and cats, besides my own. And... that's exactly where I am at. Haha! Am I "handling it?" Well, things could be better. We have been up since 3 AM. This is a barky little group.... but not because they are bad pups. More because they lack socialization. The home where they were born had 25 Shih-Tzus in it! Yikes!! How could any "foster mom" socialize 25 dogs at once? See what I mean??
Anyways.... the Shih-Doxies are here. We named them after the She-Daisy band: Kassidy, Kristyn, Kelsi and Osborn. They are cute as buttons. And I now they have a lot of potential to be great pets.... once they have all their vet care and get over the barking. They are only 5 months old... so there's time. Oh yeah, and I met their mom and dad. Dad is the cutest little 8 # miniature Doxie you could ever want to see! Mom looks like a brillo-pad.
We are hoping they will all find homes by Mother's Day!
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Oh, I FEEL like a Brillo pad most days, Stray. Of course they're barking because everybody spoke Chinese in that house and couldn't understand them! As you know too I adopted two "unsocialized" 6 mos. old border/collie labs (yap-yap-yap, bing, bing, BING, ricochet rabbit!)and I am here to say that with a little time, patience and attention they are the absolutely BEST pets now (except for my 2 other strays)and we are besotted with them. I have similar expectations for the Shih-Doxies!
ReplyDeleteTen dogs and cats? I can't keep up with my 3 dogs, one cat, 2 boys and 1 husband. I think it's my husband puts me at my upper end limit.
ReplyDeleteI hope they find good home too!
Have a great day!
Susan