Manna The Fostered Mongrel

As some of you may know, I'm a fosterer as well... Recently there's a urgent call for help for urgent fostering of a puppy mongrel.

Name: Manna

Age: 7 weeks old

Gender: Female

Medical Condition: NIL

Size: Will grow up to medium size

Sterilized: No

Microchip: No

Paper-trained: In the progress

Listen to command: In the progress

Found: rescued out from in between the wheels of a tractor.

She's suffering from ear-mites and patches on her body when she's found. After a week of care, her fur are growing out and patches are getting lesser & lesser. Her ear-mites issue have also gone. 

We are seeking for adopters that can provide her with a forever home, and give her all the care and love she need...

Interested parties, please kindly leave down your comment below. Or send in your email to: zhen.zi1985@gmail.com

Nikki's on SPCA Webbie!!

Yeah!! Nikki's on SPCA website now!! 

Do click on the link below for more happy ending stories abt Nikki and other animals... 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10152109177323155&substory_index=0&id=262947298154

Oh ya... Sorry for the late update on Nikki... Will be updating his latest progress soon!!!

Nikki Is Sick...

This morning I woke up to a nightmare!!! The whole living room and kitchen is full of bits of urine & blood!!!

The 1st thing that comes to my mind is, Nikki! I don't know what had happen to him and this have never stopped... The moment I wipe it, there he urine another small pool of pee blood...

In my mind I'm thinking is it cause I did not bring him to go downstairs to pee in the morning, so he hold till his bladder got infection and now can't pee??! Omg!!! He was being rushed to the vet immediately... 

The vet gave him a painful anal test and an injection for his bone... Although he cried and struggle throughout his whole anal test, but he is brave enough to go through the injection... 

Now we just have to wait for him to pee blood again tomorrow and bring the blood sample back to the vet... In the meanwhile, he will have to take a 10days course of antibiotic & may extend for another 5 days after the test is out... 

We are guessing it's either it's urinal/bladder infection or it's gall stones... And the cryst are cutting him up inside...

Poor Nikki... Just like human... He dosed off after taking his antibiotic... It's really a bad & tiring day for him today...

(Total damage of the day...)

1st Night Home...

I have to say, 1st night home for Nikki is not easy... We have got no shampoo, no food, no toy, basically nothing for Nikki. But we can't go straight to pet shop after getting him from the shelter, as we need to bring him home straight to let him settle down at new environment and reduce the stress of moving to new place. In fact we were worried that he can't adapt to it. 

A tip to every new dog owner out there...

When moving your dog to a new environment, please walk around the neighborhood to let it do all it's business before going up to your house. This is the initial step to train your pet to be grass-trained...

Once home, Nikki start roaming around the house and we got to faster prepare water and newspapers to put all over the house just in case he is paper-trained and wanted to do his marking at the new house. 

Nikki actually spent 40mins non-stop walking and sniffing around the whole house... I'm like "Nikki, can you please stop and at least have some water before u continue???"

(This is him, smiling when I tell him to drink water...)

Silly boy just make my heart melt.... But still!! U need to have a good bath and dinner, so to have a good night sleep...

Instead of leaving him alone at home while we go out to get his stuffs, stupid me actually think of bringing him along... (Maybe can let him do a full groom too)

From my house to the nearest shopping mall if were to stroll, it will only take less than 20mins... But this "old man" took 40mins!!! At that moment, I've actually forgotten that he is already 14, which is human age of about 98 with osteoarthritis!! Oh my god!!! I'm so sorry, Nikki!!!

When reached the grooming salon, no one wanted to groom him as it's already over their working hours... So we got no choice but to buy all necessities and took cab home and bath him ourselves... 

Once home again, I quickly let him have a nice warm bath... He got dirt all over him. The water is grey. And luckily he is super tamed. Due to his weak legs from osteoarthritis, he can't stand up for a long time... He need to lean against the wall to support himself... My heart hurts seeing him like this... 

Bath is done. And it's blow dry time! To my surprise, he just lay on the ground and let us blow dry him... 

He literally fall asleep while having his blow dry... He is so comfy that no matter how we move him, he won't wake up... He is even sleeping while we are looking out for any ticks on him... The easiest blow dry ever!!! 

After which I can't bare to wake him up to have his dinner... But this greedy boy actually woke up immediately when I'm preparing his food... Was thinking to prepare 1st, so when he woke up he got food to eat immediately. But I never expect so fast... Good nose you have there, greedy boy!!!

(This is him after a good nice bath and dinner...)

Handsome boy isn't he? Just in case you all were wondering, where he sleep... He sleep with us in our bedroom... In fact it's not us who tell him where to sleep at night... He knew where he's sleeping and he walk straight to our bedroom and sleep beside the bed automatically when both me and my hubby are still watching TV at the living room... 

I always wonder... Why is he at the shelter in the 1st place? He got no attitude problem, not barky, not mischievous, he don't pee around the house... But why just because of No Time and have to give him up? He don't need much of an attention either... Is it really just an stupid excuse or is it that he is sick and old? But still, whoever you are out there, if you happen to read this blog, I would like to say a big THANK YOU! 

Thank you for not throwing him out to the street instead, and let him starve, fight with other big dogs out there or got into a road kill... Thank you for letting me meet him... Thank you for letting him go, so he can be at a place where true love is all around him...

Going Home...

This is Nikki, when he knew he's going home! His lighted up eyes let you feel everything's worth it for adopting him... He was so soft, gentle and tamed when we were trying to get him on the leash. But also can't wait to step out of his small cage. 

Look at the smile on his face. Looking out of the window of the car, wondering where and how his new home will look like... 

A lot of people asked me. Why do you still want to adopt him when he is so old with medical issues? Who don't want a small and cute lovely puppy? I have to admit I do as well... But have you think about it, if you were in his shoe? He don't get to choose who to be his owner... He is also once a puppy 14 years ago, when his previous owner bought him from the pet shop. But things weren't the same now. Just because of NO TIME, he's being thrown into the shelter.

To me, shelter is like a old folks home for old, sick and unwanted dogs. And the last thing you would want to do is to die at a shelter. Although he may not have much time left in his life, but he deserve A Place Call Home! 

Nikki The Handsome Boy

Nikki

Breed: Shetland Sheepdog

D.O.B: 3rd March 2000

He was being surrendered to SPCA by his owner and was put up for adoption on 21st March 2014. Many have view him. But just for a few days, he had faced a lot of rejects due to his age. This poor boy was having a reluctant look when I 1st saw him on 7th April 2014.

At the look at his eyes, they got this sad look that feels like he have got a very sad past to tell me. I can say it was a love at 1st sight for both me and my hubby. But this love at 1st sight is different. The aching feeling in my heart let me realize that it got to be him I'm gonna adopt.

At the moment I opened the locked cage door and sat on the cage ledge, he simply walked towards me and lay his head on my lap, asking me to pat him. That was the sweetest moment ever. At a touch, you can feel all his bones especially at his hip area. Poor Nikki, he is so thin and weak. Inside the shelter with all those scary barking noise and caged up is not a place that he should be in. 1 more day at the shelter is another day of nightmare and torture for him.

Without further ado, I quickly asked the for adoption procedure to be done. At the office, the officer told me his medical condition. He have got Cataract and Osteoarthritis. He need to take Chondroitin, a Glucosamine Supplement to repair his joint.