Thursday, December 10, 2015

BILL ANNOUNCES: Straydog Radio Show covering the events of Thursday, December 10, 2015. This is Bill with Juana here early Friday morning. We just walked the hospital gang and all of the dogs in H1 and we’re ready to do yesterday’s report.
 
JUANA: It was a good day and we had very nice weather. The weather is crazy. It’s December and it feels like spring. I want to say something before I forget. There are bees everywhere.
 
BILL: They are coming out because of the warm weather. There are flies and mosquitoes everywhere too. They think it is spring.
 
JUANA: We had a full crew. The first picture that we have on Thursday was of Jacob with Pokey and Bernie. 

Jacob with Pokey and Bernie at the park gate.

Bernie is one of our newest rescues and he is an older Beagle. One of our contributors found Bernie roaming in the street. No one claimed him. He didn’t have a microchip or a tag. Our contributor took him to Morton Clinic. After we placed Gracie in an adoptive home, we thought he might get along with her kennelmate Pokey. At first I thought Bernie was a girl. But Bernie is so sweet that Pokey doesn’t even care that he’s kenneling with a male. We have the two boys together and they are doing well. When he first came to Straydog, Bernie would howl. He didn’t know that this was his home. As soon as he settled into a routine and he realized that he was going to be fed and walked and he was going to be loved, he was fine. We never hear a peep from him, unless it’s feeding time or park time. He loves his bed. I gave him a couch-type bed and he loves it. Bernie and Pokey are doing so well. But when Jacob had Bernie in the park, he called me. He said that he had a lot of cysts all over his body. The one on his back seems to be growing. If you squeeze them, little white stuff comes out. It is actually skin and the growth appears to be growing inside out. I talked to Dr. Dumeyer and she said that we should bring him to the clinic. I hadn’t taken a picture of it yet. I examined him all over and, when he first came to Straydog, they weren’t that bad. That’s probably why Morton Clinic didn’t remove them, when he was there. I think they are growing and it looked like one had burst, but it hasn’t. It looks like some kind of skin. It’s hard to explain.

Park Walker Jacob noticed a bump on Bernie's side and called Juana on his walkie-talkie to come to the park to take a look.

Juana finds an odd bump that she will tell the doctor about.

​After we did all of our kennel work, we started caregiving. Everyone was enjoying the nice weather. Erika and Junior are doing very well. Our kennels were raked and they looked pretty.

Erica and Junior enjoy the nice day in their big kennel with their shelter building in the back right corner.

The four puppy girls were spayed on Tuesday and they are doing so well. They are about to knock this dead tree out. It’s just a stub and they chew it and pull on it. It’s fun to watch them.

These girls love to chew and play with this dead tree. They are growing up really fast.

There’s Jacob bringing Harley and Nancy to the park.

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Most of the kids are about to be on school break for the holidays and Shelby came to help us.

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Mr. Tyler was repairing the latches on the hinges of one of the gates.

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We were working on the last mailing of the year. It’s a trifold. The crew was coming in and out and helping. The mailing was already folded. We had to stuff them and put them in an envelope with a card and put three tab seals on them. David didn’t bring the labels until later in the day, so we will apply the labels on Friday. We put Polly to work. I texted Ms. Polly and told her, if she was coming today, we could use her help with a big project. She was very happy to help. We had fun, because we got to sit and work and that’s not what we normally do. We worked on it, as we could, all day. I didn’t get very many pictures, because I was working on the mailing. We hope to take them to the Post Office today.

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I want to report that Amy and Tobi are doing much better. They are taking their medicine and eating and Tobi’s temperature is back to normal.

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​BILL: We will be back tomorrow with another report from Straydog.

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