dellasmum wrote:unfortunately all rescues seem to neuter regardless. I am OK with it but what bugs me is that they expect all the dogs in the home to be neutered. Why when the new one has been done?
sitting here in hotel in Ilfracombe looking over the harbour. Beautiful blue sea, sun shining, very warm, seagulls calling. Bliss.
Will be phoning the rescue tomorrow.
Gosh that feeling and sensation brings back memories of when hubby and I rescued an old Sheltie boy, our Shandy.
He went into Dogs Trust rescue somewhere up in Scotland the name escapes me, after no joy at finding him a home they brought him down to their Shrewsbury centre.
We saw him on line, a sad fat big/little chap, he had lumps and bumps of unpleasant type and congestive heart failure. He was 11 years approx.
We took him on as a full foster with medical bills paid for by Dogs Trust.
When we got him the girls we had at the time loved him. He had a massive grooming session and we got enough coat out of him to knit another dog.
He was an odd chap, he'd take his chew toys up the garden and bury them, he'd get a bit frisky with the girls and they put him in his place, he was already neutered but that didn't stop the twinkle in his eye
He was not the sort that you could really really get close too, he'd had too many homes before us I think.
Anyway we got his weight down big time and he got to love just pottering about in the fields near our house. He learned to love his walks but boy did he take his time, everything had to be pee'd against.
He enjoyed several caravan trips and dipped his toes in the water at Widemouth Bay several times, he enjoyed a jolly at Colyton in Devon too and pinched a chicken wing of the bbq.
We had him for just less than 2 years, I came downstairs one winters morn to find he had passed away in front of my woodburner and all of the girls were asleep around him
He was an odd chap but I like to think his last near 2 years were happy for him
