Straydog UPDATE posted SUNDAY 3/16/03 at ~9:00 p.m. CT

Pat Arnold's Daily Dog Log

SUNDAY MARCH 16 2003

Mother Lab and eight tiny puppies are coming tomorrow

      The woman who called me yesterday about a mother Lab and her litter of eight puppies, who are just four weeks old, called me again today to say that she had no positive results in getting other shelters to take the mom and her babies.

      As I mentioned yesterday, the woman (who's from Irving, Texas) had found a female Black Lab two months ago. The woman had taken pity on the poor sickly stray and had taken her home and cared for the dog while trying, unsuccessfully, to find her a home. A month later the Lab gave birth to eight puppies, and now the pups are four weeks old, and the kindhearted woman cannot keep them anymore. All efforts to find the family a home have now failed.

We are full and running low on funds, but ...

      We'll make room for the mom and her puppies by putting up a nice, secure temporary kennel with some old fence sections that were recently donated to us. (We knew this old fencing would come in handy some day!) Hopefully during our upcoming Saturday Adoption Days enough of the pups or dogs already here will find their forever families, which will then free up a permanent kennel for this new family--until they are all adopted.

      The woman will be taking the family to our vet clinic tomorrow morning, where they will get a checkup and as soon as their kennel is ready here, we'll bring them to our shelter.

Pam Mitchell, who began the rescues of the dog family at the Tenison Golf Course in Dallas, came to visit our shelter this afternoon

      It was really wonderful to finally meet the person I've been corresponding with these last several weeks concerning the rescue and care of The Tenison Golf Course Stray Dog Family. When Pam came out today to meet us and to see our Happy Home for Strays, she visited with the four dogs she helped rescue--Jesse-Bear and Mama Dog Laura, plus Sally and Alice who were rescued at the golf course last Sunday.

      The dogs were happy to see Pam. They remembered her and were probably expecting Pam to hand out wieners to them, which is what she used to feed them while trying to win their trust with rescue in mind! We gave the dogs biscuit treats instead, and Pam was glad to see both dogs of the Tenison Golf Course family looking so healthy and happy, and Pam was happy Sally and Alice are also doing fine.

Davey doesn't look well today

      He didn't eat much at all today, and he seems to have lost the little bit of spark he's had the last couple of days. Even tho he still enjoys his play times in the park, we think he is now telling us that he is almost ready to cross Rainbow Bridge.

      We'll see how he is feeling tomorrow . . .