New fosters in Washington

Very early this morning, the other northwest state coordinator and I met the transport to pick up the four new Washington rescued ratties.  All the pups overnighted at my house and they are all great little dogs.  This morning I'm off to meet and hand off 2 dogs to their foster parents. Then the fourth little rattie will be tranpsorted by a wonderful past adopter, over to Yakima to her new foster mom.

You all have read about K but wanted to let you know we have 3 other ratties that arrived lasts night.

 

 

NASH

 Nash is a sweet natured, playful little one year old tan and white Rat Terrier mix who was found as a stray and taken to a shelter. He's friendly and loves everyone he meets and we are sure he's going to love the house full of dogs that he will be living with in Snohomish, WA while in foster care. Watch him hanging out with his foster siblings on his foster family's blog. 

 

SABRINA

Sabrina is a 2 year old sweetie who was so happy to be sprung from the shelter. She's great with other dogs and we're told she's very friendly so we're sure she's going to find a forever home pretty quickly. Sabrina will be headed east to her foster home in Yakima, WA. To follow her adventures in the Yakima sun be sure to check out her foster mom's blog.

 

DALLAS

And last but not least is Dallas. This 4 month old puppy was a stray who has been recuperating from his time in the shelter at a temporary foster home. He's feeling much better now and has enjoyed playing with the dogs and people in his home. He'll be fostered in Marysville, WA and you can follow him on his foster family's blog.

More about new foster girl K

Meet K, she's a tiny little blue tuxedo coated rattie!  She's roughly 8 pounds and is about 10-12 months old. She was rescued from the Central California ASPCA shelter where she had come down with an upper respiratory infection and was struggling in the shelter setting. She's been in temporary foster care in California for a little bit because she was too sick to transport.  But, she doing well and we are very excited to meet K.

 

 You may be asking "What is up with the fancy picture?".  The shelter K came from is doing everything they can to market the dogs & that includes having a volunteer professional photographer do photo shoots with the shelter dogs. Even with this added feature dogs & puppies are still needing rescue: too many dogs, not enough adopters and not enough space. With that said we are happy to save the dogs we can save and that includes K! 

Are you wondering about her name? Our naming theme revolves around Washington wines so K is named for  K Vintners in Walla Walla, WA.  One of our favorite wineries!

 

K is currently on transport as you read this so, stay tuned to hear about this little rattie gal.

 

Two new beginning today!

Gramercy is heading to his new home today.  His moms are beyond excited to finally have him home with them.  Gramercy has such an amazing story and we are thrilled to have been a small part of his life.  So, happy new life Gramercy, it will be beyond your wildest dream in terms of love, care and adventure!

 

And with Gramercy being adopted, his mom's have saved two dog!  They adopted Gramercy who needed his own family and by adopting him, it opened up a foster spot for another dog in need.  So they have also helped  rescue sweet K who will take Gramercy's foster spot.
 

Later today, this beautiful girl will be catching the transport to Washington.  Stay tuned tomorrow to read more about her. You'll find out what's up with this amazing picture of her and her name.

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Gramercy getting primped!

Gramercy hasn't had a bath since early March (prior to his surgery) and with him going home, I told him he needed smell as good as he looks!  Gramercy wasn't in total agreement with me....



Oh the dreaded bath - Gram does great but, this is not in his top 3 "fun things to do"



"Enough with the pictures, lets get this over with"

 

As you can see a bone can make everything better.  This is one of the first times where Gram won't look at the camera.  No doubt giving me the cold shoulder for giving him a bath!  But as with everything Gram related, he gets over it fast.

 

Run rattie run and some grunts thrown in! Gram in on the tail end of some activity restriction.  By June 12th he is off all restriction.

More fun and there's that pink elephant!  D needs to not stand in the middle of the running lane.

 

 

Gramercy looking good in the harness

Given we are currently foster free (our new girl is arriving later this week) I thought I'd share a bit more about Gramercy body progression.

 

In the 5 months Gram has been with us, he's lost a good amount of weight and we've worked through a variety of harnesses that fit him. If a dog is a puller/gets over excited on leash, I personally find that the wonder walker is better if you can get a good fit.  This allows you more flexibility during leash work and gives you the option of using a 2 point of contact leash.  When Gramercy first came to us, the wonder walker didn't fit well because of his full barrel shaped chest and the increased girth around his front legs.  So we had him wearing a puppia soft harness

 

We also didn't walk Gramercy much prior to his surgery because his body just couldn't last very long.  So, while he did loose weight before the surgery it was slow going.  

 

January 5th - I had to special order size medium long belly bands for his because he was so round.  I also had to really loosen up the soft harness strap to fit his barrel body.  Poor dude had no waist line!

 

Gramercy had his surgery on March 23rd and 2 weeks after his surgery, we were given the green light for short distance walking.

 

Since his surgery we were frequently tighten up his soft harness....

 

Gramercy April 10th

And then he was able to fit into a wonder walker, size small

Gramercy April 25th

And now, he's wearing a wonder walker, size toy!




Gramercy May 19th

Gramercy is going to be living out in a rural area so, the soft harness will likely be what he's walked in since he's pretty good on a leash. However should he start bouncing around and walking out of balance, his mom's now have to option of using a wonder walker and a 2 point of contact leash if any work is needed!

Before & now pictures of Gramercy

As everyone knows, Gramercy had spine surgery back on March 19th.  I thought his "fans" would be interested to compare pictures at the 2 month mark. And of course see how great he's doing.

 

March 20th

May 19th

March 20th with his funny hair cut!

May 19th and look how great his fur is looking - that's due to good food and the coconut oil!

Lookin good & feelin good!

Gramercy ready to start his new life - which beings on May 23rd!

Gramercy helping to pick out new toys

Syncline's adopters who are a wonderful couple, gave me a very nice thank you card and a gift certificate to All The Best!  So Gramercy and I headed out to purchase some new toys for future foster dogs.

 

Gramercy LOVES toys so he's the perfect guy for a toy tester.  Here's the two he picked out - funny that they are both pink! Gramercy could not wait to get home and really test them out.

 

I was trying to get a picture of the toys and clearly Gram was a bit impatient!



"Ok Gram, go test..."



"This one is amazing!"

Gramercy was pretty funny with this toy - it has an empty bottle inside it that makes noise. 

 

 



"Ok ready for the elephant..."

 



"This one is sooo soft and easy to love!"