Rescue Rovers Adoptions (RRA) is a new dog-rescue organization which rescues from high-kill shelters. Last week, they posted at least 100 dogs that needed a foster home or would be killed. Litters of puppies, mommas, and a few 2-3 year old dogs. The kill shelter was in New Mexico, and the RRA were rescuing any dog/puppy that had a foster home commitment. We decided to offer our place as a foster home for a dog. We offered on some puppies (2 MAX) but they wouldn't let us; for some reason they said the whole litter had to stay together. We didn't understand that whole deal since the puppies were 8 weeks old, but oh well. Finally they asked us if we could take a 2 year old shepherd mix.
Here is the picture they gave us:
Look at those EARS! Hehehehe!
Anyways, we drove up to Sandy on Saturday night to pick her up. We knew she was from a shelter but what we did not expect was a VERY skinny, unhealthy, tick covered, scared dog! It was one of the saddest things ever! Terrell and the rescue pulled at least 20-30 ticks from her body, gave her 3 syringes of dewormer meds and then gave us some tick medicine for her. It was SO sad! She was so skinny, her ribs were protruding out of her body! She was sweet though, and took to us really quickly. Poor thing.
We brought her home, gave her some food, and gave her a bath.
Here is the picture we took before the bath:
The bath took both Terrell and myself about an hour to try and get her clean. We found another 15 ticks while bathing her, and the water was filthy filthy filthy! She still reeked of the streets/kill shelter, and was shedding like crazy. This poor dog! She was scheduled to die on Saturday night/Sunday morning.
We decided to name her Daisy. Goes along well with the name Rosie, don't you think? Daisy listened so well and just loved Lexi to pieces. What a sweetheart! She was very much a people dog!
Anyways, we decided to let Rosie & Daisy meet while Daisy was in her kennel. The result was NOT good. Daisy's lips snarled and growled, teeth bared, and barked.
My momma-bear instincts took over. Grabbed Lexi on the bed, pulled Rosie back and was like we are sooo not doing this. Terrell said to give her a minute. Didn't work! We had to keep them separate the whole time. One in kennel, one out, and alternating.
Yesterday, Daisy snapped with teeth, jaws, and bite at Rosie. I screamed. Definitely one of the scariest things I've ever seen! Luckily Daisy responds very well to Terrell. Daisy snapped again a few hours later. We messaged the RRA right away. Daisy had to go!
It's so interesting because Daisy is such a sweetie with people, even Lexi! She would run over when Lexi fell down and try to help her up! But with other dogs?? No way! This morning, Daisy snared, bared teeth, and snapped at the other dogs in the neighborhood too! We definitely know that Daisy needs a single dog home!
The rescue asked us to take some new pictures of Daisy to help her get adopted. Here are what we came up with! They turned out pretty cute!
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