Today Norton was reclaimed and as he is 15 years old, this is great news. He arrived in mid August and was not identified, so we were very worried. However a close look through the record of phone calls resulted in a clever employee putting two and two together. A week earlier a couple on holiday in Carcassonne had phoned to say that they had lost a small, black scruffy dog. Norton has clearly got some grey hairs since then, but yes, Sherlock Holmes (aka Carole) worked out that it was the same dog!
Due to work committments Norton’s family were unable to come back to Carcassonne before now, but Norton has been living inside the cat house, rather than the heat of the refuge, and today he left the SPA, identified and none the worse for his adventure. See, not all old dogs left at the SPA gates have been abandoned; some of them really are just lost!
At the other end of the age range, today we said goodbye to puppy Despé. Now this dog had an owner too. She put an announcement onto a local site to try and find her “beloved” pet. The SPA Facebook page received many messages saying how much this girl loved her puppy and how she would definitely come to collect him. Once it emerged that reclaiming the puppy would mean identfying him, we heard no more, either from the owner themselves or their many friends.
Luckily a cute puppy like this would not take long to find a home, and sure enough less than 2 weeks after his arrival, Despé has a new owner!
We then said goodbye to Fleur. She is a heart-stoppingly beautiful spaniel cross who arrived not quite three weeks ago, and like so many of our dogs, simply must have had a home. She is well socialised, affectionate, fine on the lead…simply perfect. We have no idea at all why no one was looking for her. Had she been identified it might well have been a different story, of course. However their loss is someone else’s gain. Today Fleur has a new home, and of course she is identified as well as sterilised, so a whole new life awaits.
Next to leave was Doc. This is wondeful for a number of reasons, the first one being that Doc’s kennelmate, Tilly was adopted yesterday. It quite often happens this way, a dog gets adopted immediately after his pal goes. Lucky Doc. Particularly lucky as this jack russell cross is nine years old, which is not the easiest age at which to find a new home.
He had been with us for under two months, since being found tied up in a garden following the death of his owner. The people htat brought him in told us that he does not like other dogs, but as Tilly showed, perhaps it is just boys he does not like. Canine ones, that is, Doc is very fond of humans, be they male or female.
We wish him happiness in his new home and look forward to yet more good news!