Tuesday, September 22, 2015

9/22/2015

BILL ANNOUNCES: Straydog Radio Show covering the events of Tuesday, September 22, 2015. Bill and Juana here and it is actually early Thursday morning. We are going to do the Tuesday report first.

JUANA: It was a good morning. We didn’t have a full crew, but we had Ronnie, Stephanie and Jacob. Oh, and we had Connor too. Connor is a new employee, who started last Friday. I hope Connor makes it. I always tell everyone how hard it is to work here and how it’s not for everybody. You have to really like what you are doing. He was here on Tuesday to help us with the kennels. Jacob was the walker of the day. I got pictures of Jacob walking our dogs and also of Ronnie, Stephanie and Connor working in kennels.

We have bad news. We think that blind and deaf Colt has ringworm. He had three big circular sores, which were very red, and one little tiny one below the other three. We put him in quarantine and we took him to the vet on Wednesday and you will see more about that in ourWednesday report. I didn’t want to take any chances. We put some medicine on his sores. If he has ringworm, it’s going to be awful. Our dogs don’t understand why they have to be in quarantine and poor Colt is blind and deaf. We doctored him and put him in quarantine. When it was time for him to go the park, he got very upset. We had to skip him and he didn’t understand what was happening to him. We will talk about this more on Wednesday’s report.

Ronnie and Stephanie doctor up the suspicious sores on Colt.

They do kind of look like the ringworm fungus.

Everybody was working very hard and we got lots of pictures.

Connor rakes one of the kennels in his section. He is doing a great job around here.

Stephanie scrubs a water bucket to make sure it's clean before filling it with fresh water.

Charlie the dog leads new walker Jacob to the park.

Ronnie finishes up this kennel with watering down the dry sand.

There are several pictures of Rosita and Purtis in the park. Purtis was limping. We took him to the vet on Monday and Dr. Shirey said that his knots are just fatty tumors. One of the knots on his back left side is getting worse and I called Lacie and told her that Purtis is really limping badly. He’s getting worse.

Rosita has her eye on something.

She must have been watching Purtis sniffing the ground.

The only three Chihuahuas that live inside are Henry, Bug and Rose. We have another gang of Chihuahuas and three of them, Lee-Boy, Owl and Allie, go to the park every day. They really enjoy the park. We can’t get the other two little black ones, Tia and Tamara, to go to the park. We have persuaded six out of eight of them to go to the park every day and I guess that is a good thing.

Momma Rose and her children Bug and Henry.

Rose

Henry is running and Bug is sniffing.

We discovered sores and hot spots on some of our dogs on Tuesday. Collin had a hot spot on his side and it looked infected. I doctored it and he gave me kisses. We also gave his kennelmate Kayla a treat. Even though his kennelmate didn’t have anything wrong with her, after we doctor our dogs they and their kennelmates get treats. They like their treats.

Juana tells Collin she needs to check his hot spot.

There it is, a little bit of medicine is all it needs.

Kayla asks Juana where her cookie is.

I noticed that the top of their doghouse was ajar. I moved it and I saw a huge black widow spider. It walked down the wall. That can be so dangerous. Not too long ago, we searched for spiders and cleaned all of the doghouses. The day before, Stephanie reported that she killed two black widow spiders in Splinter’s kennel. We are still seeing spiders and they are a danger to our dogs and to us. Maybe some of the dogs’ sores are bites. We lost two dogs due to spider bites in the past. We’ve been pretty lucky to have gone all of these years and not suffered more bites. It’s mindboggling.

BILL: The spiders couldn’t have bitten the dogs or they would be sick. Maybe black widow spiders don’t bother the dogs, if they don’t bump into them. We’d better do another search for spiders.

JUANA: There are a lot more spiders than we normally have, so we will have to do another search.

Rosita was limping on her foreleg. She loves to jump and she will even jump up into your arms. I think she might have jumped the wrong way, but she was limping. I think it might be a bruise. Her toes were okay, but she needed a good grooming. She had lots of tangles. We usually have to get her out of her shelter or she will hide from me. She knows that she is going to be checked or brushed or messed with and she hides. She’s just so cute.

Juana sees Rosita is limping and checks her out.

It must have just been a bruise.

We found a hotspot on Buzz. I doctored him with Animax, but it’s just a hot spot. It’s nothing to worry about.

Buzz says he's ok and feels just fine.

It's just a hot spot.

I got beautiful pictures of Marcela and Copper in the park. Marcela has a home visit scheduled for this Saturday. We are so happy for her. We hope that she is going to her forever home and that Copper will find a forever home too. They are both such sweet dogs.

Marcela sees park time is over and runs to the gate.

Jacob grabs a couple of cookies for Copper and Marcela.

Lucy had a hot spot under her foreleg. I put some Animax on her.

Lucy has a hot spot too.

A little medicine here and she will be fine.

During caregiving, Stephanie and Ronnie were holding Wup and cutting his nails. His nails are like needles and, when he tries to play with you, they can tear you up.

Wup is not too happy about having his nails trimmed.

Luna has a big skin infection and it’s the same thing that her sister Selena had about a month ago. At that time, we took Selena to the vet and Dr. Shirey said that it was a skin infection and it cleared up. Then she got it on her mouth. Now Luna has it. It’s just irritated and it’s so sore. Their kennelmate Embry had his staples removed and he is doing well. He’s still on Cephalexin and his wound is healing. I am very happy about that.

Luna has a skin infection just like her sister Selena had.

Embry had her staples taken out and the cut is healing up nicely.

Big pup James came home to Straydog. We took him to Dr. Lay on Monday and we brought him home on Tuesday. Dr. Lay didn’t keep him very long. He did two more enlargements of his throat. The doctor said that he doesn’t need to come back
next week. He wants to extend it to every two weeks. He wants us to take a video of us feeding James and send it to him next week. Right now, he is planning to see him in two weeks. So far, he is doing very well. He still has a feeding tube and that’s how we give him his medicine. He’s still eating and his food isn’t as watery. He’s holding his food down. He’s starting to gain weight and Dr. Lay thinks he is out of the woods.

BILL: David put up a piece on big dog James on our website explaining the whole procedure. We should call him, “Big dog James.” He is three years old.