So it turns out Bud, our dog-to-be, is a bit of a chips and cookie thief.
Last week, he grabbed a bag of chocolate chip cookies, and today, Carol Johnson informs me, he got hold of a small bag of Jalapeno Potato Chips, which her cat had knocked off the kitchen counter and onto the floor.
Carol took the chips away from Bud (and the cookies). We don’t have a cat and Bud is too small to reach our counters. The only food thief her is Fate. She says he lets her take the food, but gives her the stinkeye.
Bud is being treated for heartworm in Arkansas, where he was found abandoned and starving. We expect to get him here in October, he is in the capable hands of Friends Of Homeless Animals/RI, a rescue group I am working with and supporting.
FOHA is spending a lot of money to treat Bud’s heartworm, he has about six more weeks of treatment to go.
Heartworm is a good thing for dog lovers to know about, it is spreading all over the country, heartworm has now shown up in all 50 states. It is a lot cheaper to prevent it than to cure it. FOHA focuses on treating heartworm dogs, they have created a Golloms Fund to treat some of their heartworm dogs, they could use some help, you can donate to their fund here.
So it’s good to know that Bud has some rascal in him, as well as a lot of sweetness. If he wants to steal some food, Fate will be happy to help him, she can reach the counters.
Our first Border Collie who for 3 years lived in Florida with her senior owners until they moved back North to be near family for support and moved into our neighborhood. Our 5 year old claimed Sheba, when dogs were loose in the neighborhood (1978), because she would visit us daily. Eventually she became ours because she chose not to go home. After a conversation with her owners she was legally ours. They were grateful because it was too much for them to care for a busy dog and our daughter was ecstatic. Actually we all were. We found out shortly that she had heart worms which were prevalent in Florida then.
It was very expensive to heal her and needless to say she was on heartworm prevention until we had her euthanized at 17. That was a long story to reiterate your comment about the cost to treat heart worms compared to the preventive cost. My other point was that she lived a long healthy and active life after the treatment to rid her of those heart worms. Love Bud’s eyes. You can read an animal through their eyes and his read thoughtful and sweet. He’s a lucky boy to be going to Bedlam.
Will be most happy to see a picture of Bud with his ears up. Maybe just feeling too low to not raise them? He is a fine looking dog.
Will enjoy your posts of the new dog, Bud.
HaHa! A slip of the tongue there in the last paragraph. Not Gus, but Bud. I think you love him already!
The first of many!