Moira hinted yesterday that we are not exactly in the best of spirits at the SPA right now. A number of things have been affecting our mood, most notably people who don’t care for their dogs but are willing to go to any lengths to get them back so they can continue to ignore or mistreat them. I can’t say too much due to upcoming legal action, but you will hear about everything in good time. Or most likely with the SPA’s record of success in court, in BAD time. Still, it is hard to fight against a legal aid-funded barrister (yes, barrister, not solicitor) when you are a charity with limited resources.
Maybe this time….
Yesterday’s news and pictures of happy Scottish doggies cheered us up a bit. And for those of you who are wondering why YOUR dog hasn’t been featured, we have had so many lovely pictures and stories that we just couldn’t write about them all in one blog. We haven’t forgotten you, we just thought it would be nice to save some good news stories for another time.
Now to today: Mondays can be good or bad. Lost hunt dogs arrive, recently arrived hunt dogs are collected. It is generally a busy day and sometimes there is news that blows your socks off. Today was such a day….
Dusty was adopted!
He has been with us almost all his life, though in stints. He arrived at the age of about 8 months (yet another untrained and discarded overgrown puppy) only to be adopted by a couple who subsequently divorced and so brought him back. (For some reason there seems to be a belief that divorcees are unable to have dogs. Maybe it is a strange French Napleonic law). Dusty was then readopted and we thought all was going well, until he was brought in at the beginning of February by our cruelty inspector, having been found tied up in the back of a car guarding chickens.
Despite being abandoned three times, Dusty is just a big loveable lump and holds no malice against anyone. He initially pulled like crazy on the lead and was hard to take on walks. But once he had been castrated and mixed with a female, he was able to move to the bigger kennels, where he got more regular access to the parks.
Today the perfect couple came for him. Dusty has gone to live in a huge enclosed property, with a sporty couple who will keep him occupied. He knew it was his chance; and as with Lucky on Saturday, the adoption was a two way decision. Dusty did not pull on the lead at all! Maybe he has been saving himself for the right people!
So only one adoption, but one that will make lots of people smile, most of all Dusty himself, from the look of the photograph!