Weather was bad in Houston Sunday night and Monday the whole day because of a tornado front that came down from Oklahoma. We were on severe weather watch and flood warning.
I am a night person, so not surprisingly I was still up at 3am Sunday night. It had started drizzling on and off since around midnight. I was in my room reading, but I keep hearing whining from outside. Sounds like a puppy or maybe a kitty. But there are so may strays in my dad's neighborhood I didn't pay much attention to it.
I let my dog Lumi out in the backyard to do his business before I went to bed, around 3:30. But he would not come back when I call him. Something's got his all of his attention. I hear whining again outside. So I decided to go check it out. And MY GOD am I glad I did! I found Lumi standing facing the corner of the fence, and in front of him, a poor little puppy! Whining, shivering, wet. There was no way I can just leave the poor thing there in the rain! I picked up her shivering body and went back to the house.
The puppy scratched and scratched, cried and whined. My dad is asleep. I cant wake him up since he has work early in the morning. My stepbrother is a sleep. He has class early in the morning and he can probably hear the puppy whine from his room since the bathroom we share is close to our bedrooms. The puppy definitely has something that's making her itch A LOT. So I have to separate Lumi from her. I had no dog supplies with me since I was only visiting my dad for the weekend. What do I do??? I pretty much panicked and posted on Facebook to ask for help.
Thankfully I have night owl friends who did research for me. They told me to bathe the puppy with dishsoap, which will kill off any adult fleas on the pup. So I did. But after I bathed her she still whines and bites at herself. I can't keep her in the house because I don't have any pee pads and I can't leave either one of the dogs alone. They will whine and cry. WHAT DO I DO?! The weather outside is only getting more and more nasty.
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| Puppy in the bathtub |
My boyfriend had just taken Lumi's dog crate to Austin the week prior. I really wish I had the crate there. But I don't. I had no choice but to leave the puppy in my backyard for the night. I used the old cat litter box (its clean, haven't used it for a year) as a makeshift shelter against the sliding doors to the backyard. Put the puppy between the sliding glass door and the metal gate, with the old litterbox standing against the gate to shield off the wind and rain. I closed the door after situating the puppy, and lied down against the glass door. Lumi lied down next to me. And there we stayed, awake and alert, until the morning.
While we waited for dawn to come I did some research. I found a cheap vet that is similar to Animal Trustees of Austin, where we take Lumi for his checkups and vaccines. I planned to take the puppy there when they open at 10am. My stepbrother left around 7. I took the puppy back in the house around 730, bathed again to warm her up and blew dry her. My dad got up around 7:30 and saw the pup. He said the whining and crying kept him up all night, but he was so taken by how cute this little thing is. He told me he has our old bunny cage in the garage and I can use that to transport the puppy.
Anyways, in the end I decided to go back to Austin before taking them to the vet now I have a carrier for the puppy. I drove back, picked up my boyfriend, and went to Animal Trustees. There we found out the puppy is a 6 weeks old German Shepherd mix (we knew shes a German Shepherd, but not sure what shes mixed with), has mange (YIKES!) and both the dogs needs to be treated. The puppy has to be isolated until the she stops itching. We started her on her first round of vaccines, deworm for both of them, and heartworm prevention.
There is no way I can keep the pup with Lumi and 2 cats already. My boyfriend suggested we take the pup to the shelter so we dont risk spreading mange to our cats and worse yet, us. I drove to the shelter and cried while driving. I cried and cried after I parked in front of the shelter. I cried so much my boyfriend said we should just take the puppy home... I am glad we did. We had one full day of playing time with her. She is such a sweetheart, wants nothing more than to follow you everywhere and play. She doesn't need a leash to go out (not that we had an extra for her), she will follow you where ever you go.
But like I said, we cant keep her. So I posted on facebook and asked for a good home. The social network and my wonderful friends did not let me down. After a long day of asking and sharing pictures/videos and tagging different people, A friend of a friend of a friend's roommate adopted her. I gave her all the information and the vet record, food and toy we got the puppy. Now we have a new proud pup mommy!
I have to say I am a little sad to let her go, but I know she is in better hands and I can finally sleep is also a great feeling. The little thing is a handful since she itches and scratches and cries while she does it. Also because I had to keep her in the cage when she's indoors, but the little thing just wants to play! The new owner is taking her to the vet again (before the appointed revisit time) to hopefully get something to relief the itching. I hope Lumi can go visit and play when she's all better :)
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| playing with puppy in the grass |
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