BILL ANNOUNCES: Straydog Radio Show covering the events of Saturday, December 12, 2015. Bill and Juana here early Monday report with the Saturday report. Juana, let’s talk about what happened Saturday.
JUANA: It was a good day. When we woke up at 5:00 that morning, it was 70 degrees. I thought that I would have to get my jacket and overalls out. I couldn’t find my shorts actually. It rained and got cooler later that day.
At 6:30 in the morning, we feed Portia. She’s diabetic and we only give her five units of insulin. We will have to take her back to the vet for another blood sugar curve test. Right now, she’s enjoying her food and all of her ringworm sores are gone. She will be able to go to the park pretty soon and she’s a happy girl.
JUANA: It was a good day. When we woke up at 5:00 that morning, it was 70 degrees. I thought that I would have to get my jacket and overalls out. I couldn’t find my shorts actually. It rained and got cooler later that day.
At 6:30 in the morning, we feed Portia. She’s diabetic and we only give her five units of insulin. We will have to take her back to the vet for another blood sugar curve test. Right now, she’s enjoying her food and all of her ringworm sores are gone. She will be able to go to the park pretty soon and she’s a happy girl.
Portia sees and smells her food and is ready to eat.
Newly has been acting weird. I don’t know if his pancreatitis is flaring up. He doesn’t have bloody diarrhea, but he isn’t eating very well. His back is arched in pain. The first thing that I did for him was to stop the antibiotic that Dr. James gave him for all of the sores. That could be what’s causing the problem. We will find out today, if he’s eating or feeling better. He ate better Saturday and Sunday.
Newly is resting in his warm hay filled house. He is not feeling too well, usually he is at the fence saying hi.
There I am feeding the little Chihuahua gang.
We don’t feed them a big meal at 6:00. The person, who is running H1, feeds them in the morning and again in the afternoon. We have two big puppy plates and that’s what we feed them. They all eat together. We don’t need little bowls for each one of them. There’s so many of them.
BILL: This is before 7:00. It’s not light yet.
BILL: This is before 7:00. It’s not light yet.
JUANA: David Ford feeds Jimmy around 5:00 in the morning. I was picking up his bowl and trying to give him a treat. You can see that he almost took it. When I am feeding the dogs by myself, he will let me touch his nose with a treat. Then I have to drop it and he will get it right away. He’s not afraid of me anymore and that’s wonderful.
This is about a close as Juana can get to Jimmy for now. One day he is going to let Juana pet him, it's just a matter of time.
We also feed Harley and Nancy separately. You have to kiss and love on Nancy, before she eats. Then she will smile at you. If you ignore her and don’t give her any attention, then she won’t eat. That’s our routine. She expects it. Harley is already eating in the feeding gate and you can see that she’s eating.
Nancy has to have a kiss before she will eat her meal.
There’s a picture of Rudy. And that's Wayne picking up poopers in the big Beemer park.
There I am giving pills to Terry and giving Brody a meatball too. If you put medicine in the food of some of the dogs they won’t eat it. Even if you crush the pill, they won’t eat their food if they smell the pill. That’s the case with Terry and Wolfie. Purtis is another one, who will run into his shelter and won’t eat, if he smells a pill in his food. George and I wait until after they eat and then we give out meatballs with the pills in them. Then they think they are getting a treat. They’ll take it like that.
Terry gets a meatball with her medicine in it first, but Brody is there to make sure he gets a meatball treat too.
I picked up Harley and Nancy’s bowls. I make Harley sit and shake my hand to get his treat. He doesn’t attack us, when we pick up his bowl. He knows this routine and he’s not food aggressive anymore. We pick up his bowl, he shakes our hands and he gets a treat.
Harley gets a cookie after he finishes his meal but he has to shake her hand first.
Connor was the walker of the day.
Connor walks Nancy and Harley back to their kennel.
Marco and Banjo got into a fight about a month ago. Marco has been mean to Banjo in the past. When we put Banjo with other dogs, then he’s the aggressor. Then he wants to go back with his brother Marco. Marco and Banjo kennel with Tabitha and she is the sweetest dog ever and she would never get into it. I thought it was just too much this time. We decided that we had to separate Marco and Banjo. I put Banjo in H2.
I wanted to find a playmate for Teddy, because Copper jumped on Teddy, Wendy and Cadet. Teddy is so much smaller, so I put him back in H2. We took Banjo and Teddy to the park together and they got along. They were getting along so well and we took them to the big park. We put Little Girl and Pepper back inside and gave Teddy and Banjo their outside kennel. They are enjoying it.
I wanted to find a playmate for Teddy, because Copper jumped on Teddy, Wendy and Cadet. Teddy is so much smaller, so I put him back in H2. We took Banjo and Teddy to the park together and they got along. They were getting along so well and we took them to the big park. We put Little Girl and Pepper back inside and gave Teddy and Banjo their outside kennel. They are enjoying it.
Teddy and Banjo are getting along really well, Here they are in the park sniffing around.
The two little Chihuahua puppies are using Bunny’s outside kennel. Bunny prefers to be outside at this time of the year. I have been letting Bunny out in the deck area. She is getting used to that. When she wants to come back inside, she barks and comes inside to sleep in her crate.
Bunny sits on the porch on Hospital One watching all the people come in and out.
We were still working on the trifold mailer in the early morning. We want to thank everybody, who helped us get this mailer out.
Juana works on the mailer between chores.
Sheila was the parvo puppy that we got from Morton Clinic. She’s completely recovered. She follows me everywhere and there she is sitting sit in my lap. She’s so sweet.
Little Sheila sure has taken a shine to Juana.
There are the two little Chihuahua puppies in Bunny’s outside kennel. We put puppy Autumn out there to play with them and they get along so well. They are all the same size.
That's Autumn on the right, and Nina and Sophia on the left.
It was Adoption Day. There’s David. He forgot his hat. Autumn went to Adoption Day and two of the four female Boxer/Hound mixes went too. Fallon had a home visit scheduled for Wednesday, so David took Talena. She’s the other brindle. And he took Morgan. She’s the darker brown puppy. I managed to take just two of them out of their kennel. Look how big they are! Remember when I used to hold all four puppies. It’s amazing. I can barely carry two girls. They grow so fast.
Juana hands Autumn to David. You can see the puppies watching.
As Juana and David walk by the puppies try to get their attention.
Juana has to get Talena and Morgan.
Juana got lucky and was able to get the two she needed right off the bat. They sure are getting big.
We put Banjo and Teddy in Bunny’s outside kennel. They were only in there about an hour and we picked them to go to Adoption Day. Every time we take some dogs out of the area, where Luna and Selena are, there’s a huge commotion. The barking can lead to a squabble. Wayne got the water hose, while I walked Banjo and Teddy out, in case any of the other dogs got too excited and started fighting.
There’s David ready to go with Autumn, Teddy, Banjo and the two puppies.
 David carries Talena to the van.  Morgan and Talena are ready to go.  Autumn is not too sure she wants to go but once she gets there volunteer Sally makes her feel safe.  Teddy is always ready to go.  Banjo is happy and ready too. |
We want to thank our dear friend, volunteer and contributor, Cathy Blanton. She keeps sending us lots of supplies from Wal-Mart. She has been sending us large amounts of bleach and Fabuloso. This time she sent us a large supply of laundry detergent. She’s been trying to help us with supplies. Thank you so very much, Cathy.
Puppy Sheila thinks she is my baby. She was crying, when she was indoors. Shelby brought her outside and, when she saw me, she was trying to jump out of Shelby’s arms to get to me. She is just a little goofball!
When little Sheila see Juana she tries to jump out of Shelby's arms to get to her.
Erica has been limping. I think we need to take her to the vet to get an x-ray of her leg. I don’t know if it’s her lymph nodes. She has the most muscular thighs. I’m not sure if the problem is in her muscle. We are going to take her to the vet. The Rimadyl has helped a little bit, but not enough. Junior is Erica’s kennelmate. Maci called me to tell me that Erica was limping. Erika and Junior do play rough.
Erika is still limping. Juana checks out her leg and it looks like we are going to have to take her back to the vet.
Shelby was working in kennels. Shelby, George Jr. and Maci are going to college full-time and working for us on weekends.
Panda and Oreo watch Shelby rake their kennel.
Here is little Jimmy. When we rescued him, he was feral. He has learned to trust us and Straydog will be his forever home. He knows that this is his home and he enjoys his life here. He also enjoys running and playing. We hope to be able to get him to trust us enough to put a leash on him.
Jimmy running the fence having a grand old time.
We had some fabulous volunteers help us with the mailer. Shelby’s boyfriend Nolan came to help us. Karen, Brandy’s mom, came to help us too and she’s so super fast. Next time we will have to get her to come earlier, because she’s so fast. There’s Connor. He helped after he finished his lunch. Every member of our crew helped. They helped on their breaks and every time they got the chance.
Shelby's boyfriend Nolan and Brandy's mother Karen help us on our mailer.
Connor works on the tabbing part.
We did all of our work and did lots of caregiving. There’s George Jr. with Mario and Judy.
There’s Shelby with Thunder and Storm.
There’s Maci with Ozzie and Ariel.
There’s George Jr. with Pinky and Lucy.
There’s Wayne with Embry, Luna and Selena. They live together, but they can get into squabbles, if there is a big commotion. We have to watch them.
Then in the afternoon, we had a really big storm. We were under a tornado watch. A tornado touched down in Canton and two people were killed. Karen was telling us about that. Our cellphones all went off and warned us to, “Take shelter now.” We can’t. We don’t have a tornado shelter. I guess we could just grab our dogs and try to head under a table.
It rained pretty hard when the storm came through.
BILL: That’s the Saturday show. We’ll be back tomorrow with another report from Straydog.
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