Reply to Thread

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 4134696" data-attributes="member: 7900">We've had an interesting time the last 5 or 6 days.  About Thursday or Friday, a small dog showed up in the RV park without a collar.  She looked pretty healthy, but she was shy of letting at least two guys from catching her.  She would go up to one of our neighbor ladies and later went up on our porch to my wife.  However, when I reached out to pet her, she nipped at me, so we suspect that some guy or male child has been abusive towards here.We finally got her caught and brought her into our RV.  We didn't notify the park people because one of them was a park employee/part owner, and we suspect that he would have shot her if he had caught her.  Wife put my throw blanket on the recliner or on the floor for her to lie on, so I guess over time, she got accustomed to my scent because she would come to me if I sat down.  (She really liked chest scratching.)We reached out to the folks in our church small group to see if any of them wanted a nice dog, but no takers.  So, the wife called a veterinarian close by and scheduled a check-up for the dog.  There is no way that we can have a dog and travel as much as we still do, so we planned to look for an animal shelter after the checkup.We went to church on Sunday and then to small group meet and left the dog in our bathroom so she couldn't make a mess all over the place.  There is a gap between the bottom of the bathroom door and the floor, and she managed to wiggle her way out of the bathroom.  When we got home and the wife opened the RV's entry door, out came the dog.  I was on the opposite side of the RV turning the water back on to the RV and heard the wife say that we might have a hard time catching her again.  However, the dog saw me on the opposite side and ran over to me and started jumping up on my legs, enough that I could catch her.So, Monday morning comes and the wife takes the dog into the vet.  Vet calls us later and says that the dog is very healthy with only needing her teeth cleaned but that she is also pregnant.  That concerned me because I didn't know whether animal shelters would want to take a pregnant pup.  Then about 20 minutes later, the vet called back again.  She said that she had a relative that wanted to give the dog a home, so we went over and paid the vet bill and was extremely glad that she would have a home and we wouldn't have to "just drop her off at a shelter."  (After she came to me on Sunday and wanted my attention, I was beginning to get the feeling that I was going to be just one more person that would "dump her off" at a shelter.)</blockquote>

Verification