Yeah, I'm not so good at designer breed names.....


Fun story (not really)....I was trying arrange a foster home for two dogs from the local kill shelter, when I found one both dogs had been euthanized (before they ever made it to the adoption floor on any of the main adoption days, WTF?)....so the foster home went to another dog in need. Then all of the sudden there was reference to one of the dogs so, despite calling to check and being told that yes, the dog WAS in fact dead, I decided to double check today....

I got a another whole story about how that dog had died and while walking down the line saw the other dog that I'd been looking to pull and had been told had been put down days ago staring at me...as it turns out they'd run out of the drugs to put any more dogs down the previous night so they were going to finish as soon as the pound closed...in ten minutes....

....well....I liked this dog when I tested her previously and despite already having one foster I figured Willow's on her way to finding a new home, what the heck...what's one more foster (and a small one at that).


So I now have a.....um.....husky cattle dog maybe? She sounds like a husky for sure and has these terrifying half blue eyes...I mean each EYE is half blue O_o and it's not flattering....she has ball drive through the roof with no concept on how retrieving works, is NOT crate trained and howling up a storm from the basement where we've quarantined her but if out and about settles right away if on a tether. She won't meet the boys until Monday after her vet appointment. Most pressing concerns are the incredibly large amount of scar tissue on her stomach, she moves sound but looks like she was struck by a car or maybe fell out of a truck bed at some point. She also is missing a toenail (the whole nail...it's just not there) and is way more drooly than she should be. In the pound I assumed it was stress...now I'm thinking she maaay have a salivary gland issue....however she's bright eyed (as creepy as they are), bouncy, and VERY smart. Her paw pads are a mess but I suspect now she's stopped being housed in urine those will clear up. Of COURSE she's intact so that will be taken care of in the coming week which means she'll come into heat tommorrow -_-. She knows only two tricks, sit and shake and will jump at the chance to show them off to get your attention.

She also refuses to poop or pee...I have not manage to convince her to do either yet, if she doesn't pee by tomorrow morning we're not waiting until Monday for the vet....With gut noises I'm a bit more patient for poop....plus she is otherwise acting very normally and upbeat

Shelter Picture (and her eye is open...and not damaged the other one the TOP half is blue...it's freaky)
http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy189/Blitzava_Ryuk/27313890-1-large.jpg

Why the heck would a shelter not bother to put a healthy dog up for adoption? Especially when you were interested in them. How sad.

The half eye thing is called 'party eyes' - my husky has one eye that's half white, half brown People ask if she's blind all the time lol. She's very pretty, have you got a name yet?

Jamie - simply put...YOU ROCK!!

You are really terrific Jaime.

Malamutes sing too.

People love husky Xs. I think the first dog cloned was a husky X.

Send a photo of the scar.

We have poop and pee (unfortunately we can't seem to get the pee to appear outside yet...)


And are in need of some advice. First of all, this dog is active, good gut noises, bouncy, bright eyed, good gums....

She has clearly been not pooping for some time (which makes sense as she doesn't like to poop on leash and any pound out time was leashed and on concrete) and had a HUGE poop last night starting soft and ending in a little bit of diarrhea with a TINY bit of bright blood in it....She has since had another HUGE slightly soft for still formed poop that ended in a bit of blood and diarrhea (seriously though...this dog hasn't pooped for the week she was in that pound, I don't even know where she was putting it...and all thing considered the first pile before she walks around is very healthy for rapid switch crappy kibble corn poop)

Now NORMALLY I'd say TO THE E-VET NOW because she's new...except that the dog is behaving like a healthy happy dog does and I've seen this poop before...with Ryuk, when he got into my parents' dog's crappy kibble and had bowel movements from hell for two days....at the pound they feed whatever's donated, mostly beneful and pedigree and day to day do not always eat the same food....she is NOT a young puppy and has not yet had a meal with me yet (she'll be on rice and kibble)

Everyone is freaking out about the "Ohio Virus" with bloody poop except that in actuality there have only been 10 confirmed cases from the same boarding facility not really that close to here.....and the dogs had black blood poops and were on death's door by the time it showed up....this is so far from that that I almost don't want to mobilize the e-vet (which is what they'll do). My vet is open tommorrow and is sane. I'm going to guess she probably needs to be wormed.

Bright red blood, huge poop?

How soft? Was it formed enough to have caused a bit of straining and stretching on the way out?

By "a bit" of bright red blood, you mean less than a quarter of a teaspoon?

And the poop is a normal color (as opposed to blackish)?


I'm not a health professional, and this is only my opinion: with a dog who is not lethargic, not in visible distress, and not suffering from loss of appetite, plus all the above, I'd probably wait for tomorrow. I'd probably collect the next sample to take with.

also, clearer photos....

Most of the scars are UNDER her and these are by my housemate who wasn't aiming for them, they're not new from the looks of them, the hair has even grown back on all but the nastiest leg ones.

You can see the beginning of the leg ones in this one and the back closest toe is the nail-less one.
http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy189/Blitzava_Ryuk/1069416_529838284419_1048832256_n-1.jpg

http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy189/Blitzava_Ryuk/1383565_529838299389_551253441_n-1.jpg

It was formed enough for MOST of it (seriously, this poop was like...two normal sized PILES of semi-soft corn kibble poops that had form to them, a few softer plops where the trace of blood showed up then the final almost liquid-ish end of poop where the bright blood was, and yes, less than a teaspoon by far.

Poop normal color, not blackish at all.

 Quote: Jamie Craig

It was formed enough for MOST of it (seriously, this poop was like...two normal sized PILES of semi-soft corn kibble poops that had form to them, a few softer plops where the trace of blood showed up then the final almost liquid-ish end of poop where the bright blood was, and yes, less than a teaspoon by far.

Poop normal color, not blackish at all.

For me (same disclaimer as above), I'd feel OK about waiting. I'd keep an eye on her.

Edited by Connie Sutherland (09/29/2013 06:54 PM)
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She's darned purty

You are awesome.