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Post by Socksmum on Jan 1, 2017 22:58:45 GMT
You did your job Jenny and acted promptly. What more could anyone ask? Fingers crossed that he gets his forever home through another channel xx
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Post by Mimsmum on Jan 1, 2017 23:41:10 GMT
Lots of our lurcher and greyhound friends muzzle their dogs. We muzzle lurchers too Heather. But on day 2 both my fosters and also Tag have had a go at him, they do not want to connect. He did spat back this afternoon and I had to break it up. This is day two. It takes four days to come out of the shell and 10 days to see the real Lurcher. I hope I have enough experience to see that this poor boy has been trained to finish off an animal very quickly. I don't want this situation to change either his or my own pack dog's characters. Also, as I have said, he would find a home in a greyhound Rescue but Lurcher owners want their dogs to run free. I wouldn't be able to foster him. Unless you are offering to foster him...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 0:47:06 GMT
. The situation has changed since you wrote last.
I would have fostered if we'd wanted a young lurcher again like we've done twice for Arundawn but would have kept him muzzled. Now we have a fourth hound with Monty being here and he'd be upset.
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Post by Mimsmum on Jan 2, 2017 8:52:53 GMT
. The situation has changed since you wrote last.
I would have fostered if we'd wanted a young lurcher again like we've done twice for Arundawn but would have kept him muzzled. Now we have a fourth hound with Monty being here and he'd be upset. It doesn't help when I receive emails telling me that I should not send him back that I would cope, but then the people who send the emails say they couldn't cope with far less dogs! Those emails greatly upset me as I can only do my best. I already have two foster dogs here, one unspayed female who just doesn't want him near her. I suppose some people think that I am superwoman. But an email last night has greatly upset me and I haven't slept. I am not superwoman. I don't want to send him back as he is a good boy, an easy boy indoors, but with 4 of the dogs only tolerating him I can't work on a daily basis like this!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 9:07:14 GMT
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Post by rowlfsmum on Jan 2, 2017 9:07:38 GMT
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Post by Romi on Jan 2, 2017 9:09:44 GMT
Jenny you have quite enough to cope with every day without de-stabling your own pack and risking dog fights. That won't help any of the hounds, your own or the fosters. It is a sad truth that you cannot take every dog in......you have to be "picky" when you are taking a new dog into your home or you are risking more lives that just one. If they are not offering to foster then I think people should keep their negative email opinions to themselves. YOU CANNOT DO EVERTHING.
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Post by alfie&tillysmum on Jan 2, 2017 9:17:14 GMT
Well said Kara! Jenny you have the support of many.
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Post by Mimsmum on Jan 2, 2017 9:19:33 GMT
He is genuinely a lovely dog, but you are right Ro, it comes down to pack dynamics. He will only be able to take so much popping at him before he pops back, and the de-stablizing is something that no foster wants to go through. Especially on a day to day basis with 7 to walk and sort out. It's not his fault, and I really don't want to see him go back into kennels. He is loving and gentle. And this is heartbreaking.
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Post by antoniaalfie55 on Jan 2, 2017 9:21:33 GMT
Well said Kara! Jenny you have the support of many. Yep, sometimes, things just don't work out as planned. It's a shame for Baggins but xxx
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Post by Mimsmum on Jan 2, 2017 9:25:19 GMT
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Post by Mimsmum on Jan 2, 2017 9:27:11 GMT
Michael and Jillian will be coming up to meet me later this morning to take him back down to Hampshire. He will stay with them overnight and then go back into the kennels.
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Post by rowlfsmum on Jan 2, 2017 10:25:55 GMT
Michael and Jillian you are absolute stars. There will be the right home somewhere for this lovely hound. It is not his fault he has been trained to 'finish' prey. Good luck little man. You have to do what is right for everyone - human and hound- Jenny.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2017 10:53:26 GMT
. The situation has changed since you wrote last.
I would have fostered if we'd wanted a young lurcher again like we've done twice for Arundawn but would have kept him muzzled. Now we have a fourth hound with Monty being here and he'd be upset. I'm not going to get into this as I didn't have your update that the indoor situation had altered. I agree you can't have a "situation" at home with your pack . What had upset us was that he wasn't muzzled so had the opportunity to react.
You know I can't foster any more and said that more than once. No one on here offered to help by fostering him so that's why you took him in on 31st.
We've done a great deal of fostering, emergencies, transport etc. but since Finn was bitten by an uncastrated hound during the night, has had nightmares ever since, that's why I said to you we couldn't help with uncastrated ones. We too have helped with some difficult dogs and been doing so since 2001.
You were so disappointed that no one had offered to help you that I felt tempted but common sense prevailed. I too have been very upset by this so you're not alone.
Before you all jump on the waggon and have a go, you don't know all the facts.
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Post by planete on Jan 2, 2017 10:58:56 GMT
I do not think people who have not had to cope with this kind of situation have any idea of how incredibly stressful and dangerous it can be. The dogs would need to be monitored every second of the day and there would still be no guarantee severe injuries could be avoided. If Rosie had not got on with my own dogs from the word go, I certainly would not have been able to keep her. I could manage her manic prey drive and reactivity as well as her fear aggression with humans but fights in the home are too high a risk for either dogs or humans and can have long-lasting consequences, physical and mental. Please try not to lose any more sleep over ignorant opinions. People with a bit more knowledge and experience would not dream of being critical.
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Post by Boo on Jan 2, 2017 11:00:58 GMT
Good grief. I know whoever sent the email did it cos they care about about the dogs, but some people really don't have a clue. If we aren't the best rescue to rehome him then, in the time it would take to find *him* a family, we could have 3 or 4 easier ones pass through. Not to mention the knock on effect he could have on Sasha & Winnie's temperaments, thereby making them harder to home. Jenny, this is the first dog I've known you return in the 5 & a bit years that I've been involved with SLR, so please don't beat yourself up about it. *hugs* ETA: Heather, I had no idea it was you who had sent the email when I just wrote this. We must have cross-posted. All I know is that we can't question Jenny's decisions cos she already does 2000% more than the rest of us. No offence meant. Don't want to start a row or anything.
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Post by Mimsmum on Jan 2, 2017 11:09:09 GMT
This is the first dog I have ever returned Boo!!
He is not the one that is the problem here Heather. Winnie has just laid into him and bitten her own tongue doing it. Just because he tried to lick her rear end. He didn't bite back. I can't muzzle four of the dogs and keep them separate all the time in a tiny house.
And, you may be upset Heather, but you are not in the middle of it.
I wish people would just accept that dynamics matter. We have moved several fosters along the way, not ours, but for other fosterers, and when it doesn't work the Foster is the one to know it.
I'll be meeting up with Jillian and Michael shortly.
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Post by shasta on Jan 2, 2017 11:09:15 GMT
Right decision made Jenny.
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Post by echo on Jan 2, 2017 12:06:23 GMT
Well said Kara! Jenny you have the support of many. Hear, Hear. Try not to let it upset you Jenny (I know that's hard) you do far more than most would.
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Post by Mimsmum on Jan 2, 2017 12:56:10 GMT
Yes sitting quietly waiting. The Committee have agreed that we are going to offer to pay for neutering and boarding costs to give him the best chance of going to Rescue. I know I have made the right decision but it doesn't make it Amy easier
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