Lost and Found

When I arrived at the centre I work at out of town (it is a former school) there were 2 big dogs standing in the parking lot.

They were very friendly and clearly well taken care of. They were both wearing shock collars but no tags.

One of my colleagues snapped pictures of them and put them on a lost and found dog Facebook page.

Another got the dogs into the school into an empty classroom. I went and found a big bowl and got them some water. Some staff found some cheese to give them. These dogs found the perfect place to be lost as most of the staff at the centre are dog owners and lovers! 

Within 15 minutes the owners had been found and within 40 the dogs had been picked up. Their owner said they were grounded!

It was a fun start to a Thursday and a reminder to have a phone number on your pups when they are out. 

Helping Reunite a Lost Dog

This pup, who would not pose for a picture for Lady (clearly didn't understand she may have cookies) was running around our yard last week. Her face (when Lady could see it) looked like a Shar Pei mix. This pup was clearly scared and Lady couldn't get close. So Lady got that not great picture and went to the municipality Facebook group and posted where it had been seen and the direction it was going. 

In less than an hour there was a note on the group to Lady that mystery dog and her sibling dog, who had somehow escaped and been on the run for about 1.5 hours, were both safe at home. The people were very grateful for the Lady's help in locating them. Lady said she was glad to help because we may have both escaped before, and it is very scary for peeps.

We are so happy the pups went home (but do hope they had a little fun while on the run!)

Which Picture Was Harder to Get

4 Dogs

or

One 5 day old baby

Guess!

Nin and the Dogs

Picture taken March 2010 - Gemini, Loki (both who are at the rainbow bridge) and Nin

The above picture is not a posed picture, it is how they were all lying on the couch. Nin has always been the more tolerant cat with the dogs. Baggy HATED Loki and lived in the basement when he was alive. [In fairness Loki always tried to chase him and hump him. Baggy has become more tolerant of the dogs as the years have gone by].

Nin has always looked for ways to get along with the dogs, even if he has always been humped by them. First it was Loki who humped him (in fairness Loki would have humped anything - he was a really humpy dog - which makes us really laugh as he ended up with hepatitis). When Loki died Gemi started humping him (Gemi was nasty and violent and it was disturbing), and when Gemi died Hailey took over the job. 

It is usually after a humping that Lee will play with him as shown in yesterday's post. We don't worry about Nin clawing eyes out because he doesn't have front claws. Yes Blogville, we are the evil people who had our cats declawed. It wasn't our plan to do this. We tried everything we could think of (it was 17 years ago, we didn't have the internet to help us) and Nin continued to scratch everything. He scratched the couch down to the wood. He scratched the carpet. He would scratch your bag if you left it on the floor. My favourite - he would scratch the mirror (that is a horrible sound by the way). 

After he had destroyed everything but the scratching post, we talked to our vet and decided declawing was the only way to go. Because we were declawing him, we also declawed Baggy (who was not such a scratcher). I would like to say that declawing never stopped Nin from scratching. Up until old age caught up with him, he scratched and scratched and scratched. The day after he was declawed, he was scratching (and then he would look at his paw like "this isn't right" and scratch some more). He clear is/was an obsessive scratcher. So he is a clawless obsessive scratcher. 

Nin's obsessive behaviour has been a blessing in some ways, because it forced us to get him declawed. Because he is declawed we have to worry less about him and the dogs. So it has all worked out and they have lived together fairly peacefully for 13 years. 

Have a great Saturday!