and onto the new dog!
So I had been looking and looking and looking for the second dog we have been approved for. I checked all the pounds and rescues pretty much everyday. I was waiting to find the right one because Banjo is so sooky I didn't want to get someone that would dominate her too much. I knew I wanted another Bully breed. I was pretty certain that we wanted a boy. We did have a meet and greet with a little puppy at Matt's work that he called Newt but she was just too high energy and not for us. There were a couple of others in other states that I was interested in but because we couldn't meet it couldn't really happen. Then we were contacted bt a 'rescue' to try and find a home for a deaf white 'pitbull'. He had passed all his tests for being rehomed with flying colours and was very dog friendly. After lots of thought and research on deaf dogs we told them rescue that we would take him. Then they told us that we couldn't have him because there is too much hype about pitbulls at the moment and put him to sleep. We were devastated.
Then about a week later I spotted a tiny picture of a white some kind of bully breed at another pound. The pound was holding him for the required time before they could rehome him. Matt works in animal control for another council so he called them and asked if they would hold him for one afternoon so he could come and meet the dog. So he went to meet him the day the dog was allowed to be sold. When Matt got there the pound told him they had taken this dog off the person who owned him because she had kept him chained and that he was skinny. He was 5-6 months old. When Matt met the dog he was Alot skinnier then he expected, maybe 3-4 kilos underweight, all ribs showing and hips sticking out. After some time with him Matt decided we would adopt him and brought him home.
Poor thing! When he came home I couldn't believe how thin he was, he is going to be a big boy and food when they are young is needed so badly, it may even have stunted his growth, His teeth are really bad for so young and I think he may have only been fed scraps and cheap soft dog food (if he was lucky). He had a tick on him. He didn't know how to go to the toilet on grass and would only go on concrete because that was where he had been chained. He didn't know what toys were. He had kennel cough and we didn't know and he gave it to Banjo. Despite all those things he is so lovely and calm. He isn't food aggressive and now that he has worked out toys, both dogs share them without fighting! He has put on about 2kgs since being with us and has his own bed inside, probably for the first time ever. His name is Link, if Matt lets that name stick.
Then about a week later I spotted a tiny picture of a white some kind of bully breed at another pound. The pound was holding him for the required time before they could rehome him. Matt works in animal control for another council so he called them and asked if they would hold him for one afternoon so he could come and meet the dog. So he went to meet him the day the dog was allowed to be sold. When Matt got there the pound told him they had taken this dog off the person who owned him because she had kept him chained and that he was skinny. He was 5-6 months old. When Matt met the dog he was Alot skinnier then he expected, maybe 3-4 kilos underweight, all ribs showing and hips sticking out. After some time with him Matt decided we would adopt him and brought him home.
Poor thing! When he came home I couldn't believe how thin he was, he is going to be a big boy and food when they are young is needed so badly, it may even have stunted his growth, His teeth are really bad for so young and I think he may have only been fed scraps and cheap soft dog food (if he was lucky). He had a tick on him. He didn't know how to go to the toilet on grass and would only go on concrete because that was where he had been chained. He didn't know what toys were. He had kennel cough and we didn't know and he gave it to Banjo. Despite all those things he is so lovely and calm. He isn't food aggressive and now that he has worked out toys, both dogs share them without fighting! He has put on about 2kgs since being with us and has his own bed inside, probably for the first time ever. His name is Link, if Matt lets that name stick.