Fur Babies

First thing, I do know that the proper way to spell Zues is Zeus. I spelled it wrong (for my dogs name) on purpose because that's how I think it should be spelled. I even spelled it like that on his papers. Ok, now on to today's post.

I am a major dog person. Always have been. There is seriously no telling how many stray dogs I have brought home and either kept or found a good home for. Anytime we see a stray, Hubby starts saying "NO! We already have too many". Ya, it's that bad.

So, when MamaKat put the prompts up for this week, I knew immediately which one I was doing.
When your done with mine, go check out all the others.

#1. Tell us about a stray animal you took in.

Not long after we moved into our house, I was sitting there watching some TV. The dogs started barking so I looked outside the window to see what was up. I saw them in the road with a brown furry thing so I ran out to see what they had.

It was a dog. A little bitty dog. My dogs were trying to play and she was freaking out. I scooped her up and took her inside to see if she was hurt and figure out who she belonged to. She was a mini pom and I know those dogs aren't cheap. I called my neighbor, who knows EVERYONE, and she said she had never seen the dog before. She didn't belong to anyone near us.

Then I noticed her shoulder. It was all jacked up and I thought my dogs had dislocated her shoulder. I pulled on it a little and she didn't care. Huh, that's weird. So I called the vet and took her in. When I left the vet, I was no longer looking for the owners of this very sweet dog.

The vet said that it looked like she had BROKE her shoulder some time before and nobody bothered to have it fixed. So, it grew back wrong. The only way to fix it was to rebrake it and then set it. She could walk fine and wasn't in pain so he thought that there was no reason to put her through that. She also chewed on that leg and he decided it was probably a nervous habit and that the leg probably had some nerve damage.

Then he looked at her teeth. They were so rotten. I have never seen teeth on an animal or human look that bad. He said he couldn't decide her age because she was obviously not taken care of so she looked older than she really was. I had to buy her can food because she couldn't eat dry dog food.

Next, he flipped her over and looked at her belly. She had not been spayed.

You add this up and what do you get? Most likely, a puppy mill dog that someone had dumped in my driveway. He said that they had probably used her all up and didn't need her anymore. That's probably why they didn't fix her shoulder because a vet would have noticed all the other problems.

I was so pissed at these people and I knew right where to go. At our local grocery store, there was ALWAYS a sign for Mini Pom's for sale (small town, remember). On the way there, I decided that I really didn't want to go to jail and went home. With no way of proving this was their dog, there wasn't much I could do. I reported them to the sheriffs dept as suspicious that the sign was always there and I haven't seen it since.

We decided to keep her. She was the sweetest little dog and loved her new home. Because of her shoulder, she often walked kinda sideways or just fell over so we named her Tipsy. We loved her like we had picked her out ourselves. She quickly became part of the family.
She lived about a year and a half with us before she passed away. I'm so glad I was home the day she was left and was able to give her a good home, finally.

And for your viewing pleasure, here my other fur babies that have been with me through out life:

Max (boxer) - He was already around when I was born. We had him for 8 years.

Hawk (lab)- I was 4 when we got him and we had him for 16 years.

Sugar (cocker spaniel) - I got her when I was 7 and had her for 15 years.

Zues (boxer) - I got him when I was 16 and had him for 9 years.

And here is our current fur babies:

Outside fur babies (they don't want in, I've tried):

Booger Bear (lab) - We got him almost 6 years ago.

Danny (boxer) -We got her 5 years ago to be a wife to Zues but, umm, he didn't know what to do. Now, she is Booger's wife (that is spayed).

Inside fur babies:

Lady (king charles cavalier), Fern (stray kitten dumped on our road), and Smokey (grey cat we adopted)

We live in the country so animals get dumped a lot. Hubby just prays that I always find them a home that is NOT ours.