Abandoned in the campo
Jul 27th 2010, 12:50 pm
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Jul 27th 2010, 5:54 pm
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Jul 28th 2010, 10:00 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
How's Missy doing - any more photos?
When we bought our Finca it came with a small puppy that we were asked if we wanted to keep - if not she would have been 'got rid of' - so, obviously we kept her. We have someone who looks after her when we're not there. She is an escape artist and we turned up from England one evening and she came to greet us with a tiny puppy in tow! She is now 4yrs old and puppy is 1 yr old and they just give us so much pleasure and have a great life on our land. They're amazing!!
When we bought our Finca it came with a small puppy that we were asked if we wanted to keep - if not she would have been 'got rid of' - so, obviously we kept her. We have someone who looks after her when we're not there. She is an escape artist and we turned up from England one evening and she came to greet us with a tiny puppy in tow! She is now 4yrs old and puppy is 1 yr old and they just give us so much pleasure and have a great life on our land. They're amazing!!
Jul 29th 2010, 7:32 am
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
How's Missy doing - any more photos?
When we bought our Finca it came with a small puppy that we were asked if we wanted to keep - if not she would have been 'got rid of' - so, obviously we kept her. We have someone who looks after her when we're not there. She is an escape artist and we turned up from England one evening and she came to greet us with a tiny puppy in tow! She is now 4yrs old and puppy is 1 yr old and they just give us so much pleasure and have a great life on our land. They're amazing!!
When we bought our Finca it came with a small puppy that we were asked if we wanted to keep - if not she would have been 'got rid of' - so, obviously we kept her. We have someone who looks after her when we're not there. She is an escape artist and we turned up from England one evening and she came to greet us with a tiny puppy in tow! She is now 4yrs old and puppy is 1 yr old and they just give us so much pleasure and have a great life on our land. They're amazing!!
Jul 29th 2010, 12:40 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
She's doing fine thanks. Found a vet about 18 km away and I was planning to go this morning for her to get all her shots, and for my older dog Lola to get her boosters. I do have severe osteo-arthritis though and I am not feeling so grand - it will be problem enough walking with Lola without driving as well and so I am putting it off until tomorrow. My camera is playing up and hasn't worked for a couple of days now - I will give it another try later today. Lola 'manages' to spend about 5 minutes with Missy each day but, like me, gets a bit fed up with all the bites!
Aug 4th 2010, 10:18 am
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
To all of those people that viewed this thread and those that commented I would just like to say a big 'thank-you'.
Missy is doing just fine, yesterday I managed to get both dogs to the vet, though not without some mishaps. Missy was violently sick in the car - twice. She produced more than her bodyweight in nasties. The vet was very pleased with her and gave her the first of her puppy shots - the second lot to follow on September 3rd. He told me that she was about twelve and a half weeks old - older than I had thought. Lola and Missy play daily now - however when Missy gets a bit too playsome Lola lays down the law. Quite right too. He did tell me that choosing the name 'Missy' was perhaps a bit of a mistake as this name is given to cats! I ain't changing it now. Camera still not working and my attempts to buy a new digital camera almost came to blows. The Sony Cybershot I got 6 years ago bears no resemblance to the cameras on offer now and quite frankly I got lost after the first two sentences filled with techno-speak Spanish style. Is there a thread anywhere on digital cameras?
Once again, thanks to everyone for your comments and support.
Missy is doing just fine, yesterday I managed to get both dogs to the vet, though not without some mishaps. Missy was violently sick in the car - twice. She produced more than her bodyweight in nasties. The vet was very pleased with her and gave her the first of her puppy shots - the second lot to follow on September 3rd. He told me that she was about twelve and a half weeks old - older than I had thought. Lola and Missy play daily now - however when Missy gets a bit too playsome Lola lays down the law. Quite right too. He did tell me that choosing the name 'Missy' was perhaps a bit of a mistake as this name is given to cats! I ain't changing it now. Camera still not working and my attempts to buy a new digital camera almost came to blows. The Sony Cybershot I got 6 years ago bears no resemblance to the cameras on offer now and quite frankly I got lost after the first two sentences filled with techno-speak Spanish style. Is there a thread anywhere on digital cameras?
Once again, thanks to everyone for your comments and support.
Aug 4th 2010, 11:53 am
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
To all of those people that viewed this thread and those that commented I would just like to say a big 'thank-you'.
Missy is doing just fine, yesterday I managed to get both dogs to the vet, though not without some mishaps. Missy was violently sick in the car - twice. She produced more than her bodyweight in nasties. The vet was very pleased with her and gave her the first of her puppy shots - the second lot to follow on September 3rd. He told me that she was about twelve and a half weeks old - older than I had thought. Lola and Missy play daily now - however when Missy gets a bit too playsome Lola lays down the law. Quite right too. He did tell me that choosing the name 'Missy' was perhaps a bit of a mistake as this name is given to cats! I ain't changing it now. Camera still not working and my attempts to buy a new digital camera almost came to blows. The Sony Cybershot I got 6 years ago bears no resemblance to the cameras on offer now and quite frankly I got lost after the first two sentences filled with techno-speak Spanish style. Is there a thread anywhere on digital cameras?
Once again, thanks to everyone for your comments and support.
Missy is doing just fine, yesterday I managed to get both dogs to the vet, though not without some mishaps. Missy was violently sick in the car - twice. She produced more than her bodyweight in nasties. The vet was very pleased with her and gave her the first of her puppy shots - the second lot to follow on September 3rd. He told me that she was about twelve and a half weeks old - older than I had thought. Lola and Missy play daily now - however when Missy gets a bit too playsome Lola lays down the law. Quite right too. He did tell me that choosing the name 'Missy' was perhaps a bit of a mistake as this name is given to cats! I ain't changing it now. Camera still not working and my attempts to buy a new digital camera almost came to blows. The Sony Cybershot I got 6 years ago bears no resemblance to the cameras on offer now and quite frankly I got lost after the first two sentences filled with techno-speak Spanish style. Is there a thread anywhere on digital cameras?
Once again, thanks to everyone for your comments and support.
Aug 4th 2010, 12:20 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
To all of those people that viewed this thread and those that commented I would just like to say a big 'thank-you'.
Missy is doing just fine, yesterday I managed to get both dogs to the vet, though not without some mishaps. Missy was violently sick in the car - twice. She produced more than her bodyweight in nasties. The vet was very pleased with her and gave her the first of her puppy shots - the second lot to follow on September 3rd. He told me that she was about twelve and a half weeks old - older than I had thought. Lola and Missy play daily now - however when Missy gets a bit too playsome Lola lays down the law. Quite right too. He did tell me that choosing the name 'Missy' was perhaps a bit of a mistake as this name is given to cats! I ain't changing it now. Camera still not working and my attempts to buy a new digital camera almost came to blows. The Sony Cybershot I got 6 years ago bears no resemblance to the cameras on offer now and quite frankly I got lost after the first two sentences filled with techno-speak Spanish style. Is there a thread anywhere on digital cameras?
Once again, thanks to everyone for your comments and support.
Missy is doing just fine, yesterday I managed to get both dogs to the vet, though not without some mishaps. Missy was violently sick in the car - twice. She produced more than her bodyweight in nasties. The vet was very pleased with her and gave her the first of her puppy shots - the second lot to follow on September 3rd. He told me that she was about twelve and a half weeks old - older than I had thought. Lola and Missy play daily now - however when Missy gets a bit too playsome Lola lays down the law. Quite right too. He did tell me that choosing the name 'Missy' was perhaps a bit of a mistake as this name is given to cats! I ain't changing it now. Camera still not working and my attempts to buy a new digital camera almost came to blows. The Sony Cybershot I got 6 years ago bears no resemblance to the cameras on offer now and quite frankly I got lost after the first two sentences filled with techno-speak Spanish style. Is there a thread anywhere on digital cameras?
Once again, thanks to everyone for your comments and support.
Aug 4th 2010, 5:07 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
Please don't get so concerned about a very lucky dog who was rescued. There are many decent caring people but there are not enough to go round.
Worry about the thousands of other dogs and cats that are abandoned every day in Spain and who are not so lucky.
I went down to our local rubbish bin the other day and found 4 new born kittens screaming in a plastic bag. After much TLC and some milk from a feeding bottle it was clear that they were too young and in too bad a state to survive. The vet put them down the next day.
This happens all the time. If you are concerned about animal welfare in Spain, stop worrying about one lucky little dog that has survived and send a cheque to an animal welfare society in Spain who can help other poor animals that have not been so lucky.
Look at my previous link for an example http://www.casnews.info/
Worry about the thousands of other dogs and cats that are abandoned every day in Spain and who are not so lucky.
I went down to our local rubbish bin the other day and found 4 new born kittens screaming in a plastic bag. After much TLC and some milk from a feeding bottle it was clear that they were too young and in too bad a state to survive. The vet put them down the next day.
This happens all the time. If you are concerned about animal welfare in Spain, stop worrying about one lucky little dog that has survived and send a cheque to an animal welfare society in Spain who can help other poor animals that have not been so lucky.
Look at my previous link for an example http://www.casnews.info/
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Aug 4th 2010, 5:23 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
I actually wondered how long it would be before someone got tired of this thread. In view of Mr James' comments, and I agree with his sentiments to a certain degree, I'll draw a curtain over the whole episode and just leave everyone with the knowledge that this 'very lucky dog' will have a good life and will not want for love, affection and the care that so many animals in Spain will never know.
Aug 4th 2010, 6:42 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
I actually wondered how long it would be before someone got tired of this thread. In view of Mr James' comments, and I agree with his sentiments to a certain degree, I'll draw a curtain over the whole episode and just leave everyone with the knowledge that this 'very lucky dog' will have a good life and will not want for love, affection and the care that so many animals in Spain will never know.
I bought a load of rubbish that I didn`t really need off some old girl at the car boot this morning, the reason being she looks after abandoned dogs.
How many has she got at the moment ?
118.
Aug 4th 2010, 6:58 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
Surely it is up to the people whom view this thread to let it pass, if the Americans are interested in your dog it may just get them interested in all the abandoned and poorly treated animals in Spain not just cats and dogs but donkeys, horses and birds and they may then look into the various animal charities here on the C.D.S. I just think it is really intersting that these people took such an interest in one little dog, if that helps other dogs in what ever country then this thread deserves to run,(in my opinion).
Shelters in the USA tend to put their animals down after about 14 days if no home is found so if only one of the hospital staff takes the time to visit their local shelter then job done as their dogs do not have at least the chance of life where ever it is.
Try listing the charities in stead of telling them about older threads having looked for certain information through older threads it is not always that easy if you do not have a reference name.
http://www.animals-in-distress.eu/
http://www.sos-animals.org/
http://dogs.suite101.com/article.cfm...imals-in-spain
http://www.horserescuespain.org
That is just a few for people to browse through where ever they may live, add to the list lets see where it leads they all deserve a mention once in a while.
Sorry if this may break protocol but I think it is important that they have the chance to be seen and heard
Shelters in the USA tend to put their animals down after about 14 days if no home is found so if only one of the hospital staff takes the time to visit their local shelter then job done as their dogs do not have at least the chance of life where ever it is.
Try listing the charities in stead of telling them about older threads having looked for certain information through older threads it is not always that easy if you do not have a reference name.
http://www.animals-in-distress.eu/
http://www.sos-animals.org/
http://dogs.suite101.com/article.cfm...imals-in-spain
http://www.horserescuespain.org
That is just a few for people to browse through where ever they may live, add to the list lets see where it leads they all deserve a mention once in a while.
Sorry if this may break protocol but I think it is important that they have the chance to be seen and heard
Aug 4th 2010, 7:09 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
Surely it is up to the people whom view this thread to let it pass, if the Americans are interested in your dog it may just get them interested in all the abandoned and poorly treated animals in Spain not just cats and dogs but donkeys, horses and birds and they may then look into the various animal charities here on the C.D.S. I just think it is really intersting that these people took such an interest in one little dog, if that helps other dogs in what ever country then this thread deserves to run,(in my opinion).
Shelters in the USA tend to put their animals down after about 14 days if no home is found so if only one of the hospital staff takes the time to visit their local shelter then job done as their dogs do not have at least the chance of life where ever it is.
Try listing the charities in stead of telling them about older threads having looked for certain information through older threads it is not always that easy if you do not have a reference name.
http://www.animals-in-distress.eu/
http://www.sos-animals.org/
http://dogs.suite101.com/article.cfm...imals-in-spain
http://www.horserescuespain.org
That is just a few for people to browse through where ever they may live, add to the list lets see where it leads they all deserve a mention once in a while.
Sorry if this may break protocol but I think it is important that they have the chance to be seen and heard
Shelters in the USA tend to put their animals down after about 14 days if no home is found so if only one of the hospital staff takes the time to visit their local shelter then job done as their dogs do not have at least the chance of life where ever it is.
Try listing the charities in stead of telling them about older threads having looked for certain information through older threads it is not always that easy if you do not have a reference name.
http://www.animals-in-distress.eu/
http://www.sos-animals.org/
http://dogs.suite101.com/article.cfm...imals-in-spain
http://www.horserescuespain.org
That is just a few for people to browse through where ever they may live, add to the list lets see where it leads they all deserve a mention once in a while.
Sorry if this may break protocol but I think it is important that they have the chance to be seen and heard
Someone posted a couple of pics up of a puppy they had found. We responded. I work in a huge hosp. People were genuinely interested. Our Dept (Pediatric Neurosurgery) sometimes doesnt see a lot of good days. This story touched us all.The person who found and took the puppy home is still a good guy and the puppy is still lucky.!
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Aug 4th 2010, 8:00 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
Someone posted a couple of pics up of a puppy they had found. We responded. I work in a huge hosp. People were genuinely interested. Our Dept (Pediatric Neurosurgery) sometimes doesnt see a lot of good days. This story touched us all.The person who found and took the puppy home is still a good guy and the puppy is still lucky.!
Send a collection box around your friends and colleagues and do something positive to help!
There are plenty of charities that need help and some links have been posted.
Warm thoughts don't save dying animals - I wish they did!
Aug 4th 2010, 10:30 pm
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Re: Abandoned in the campo
What started out as a feel good thread about someone doing good for an abandoned animal has now turned into the opposite - making people feel bad for caring! It makes me so angry when people offering well meaning support, encouragement and praise are lectured by people who don't know them or their circumstances. There are always people ready to turn something positive into a negative in this world!!!