I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend! We had another busy and exciting week here at PAWS! Sadie had nine puppies on Friday and is being such a good mom! All the pups continue to be healthy and Sadie is starting to relax a little. When I was over on Saturday, she was coming up to me asking for some attention. She is such a sweet, pretty girl. I think she will find a home as soon as she's able to wean her puppies.
We have about 10 dogs waiting to go to their forever homes and seven more that got to go home this week. We'll be getting caught up on some of our spays and neuters this coming week, so we should be able to get more dogs home this coming week.
On Saturday, I borrowed the president of our rescue's Jeep, packed up my foster dog, and headed out to Hagerstown, MD to meet transport. I was picking up four puppies from a rural West Virginia shelter. Thankfully, we missed most of the bad Memorial Day traffic and arrived just in time to meet transport. It was quite full this time around. There were at least 15 dogs that were on their way to rescues. Our four are Lab / Mountain Cur mixes - three girls (two black, one tan) and one boy (cream colored with a black tipped tail).
The condition of dogs off transport always varies. Sometimes they are very clean, sometimes they are covered in dirt because they've been living outside as strays, sometimes they have had accidents in their crate and are covered in that and everything in between. They are almost ALWAYS happy to be there though. Occasionally, we have incredibly shy ones, but even then, the tails usually start going at some point. I can't imagine what the dogs think is happening to them when they go on transport.
In the case of these four, they were in ok condition. They needed baths and some flea/tick treatments, but still happy to be there. They weren't sure where they were going, but they seemed to figure out that it's better than where they came from. I pulled them out of their crate and moved them into the crates in the jeep and we headed back to PetCo for the end of our adoption event.
As usual, a HUGE thank you to the Sterling PetCo for supporting us during our adoption event! Unfortunately, due to the holiday weekend, not much was going on when I got there. I had some of our Key Club volunteers help me unload the dogs and bring them in. It was there we realized that the dogs were covered in fleas and baby ticks. We got some flea and tick medication for them, but it wasn't enough. We saw the fleas jumping off the dogs and onto the volunteers. Definitely not a good situation! Thankfully, we were able to bring them to the groomers in PetCo who gave them all a flea and tick treatment before they went to their new foster homes. Keep your eyes on the website for pictures of these new additions!
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