Our family agreed to be the foster family for an unnamed "brown dog" and her 8 one-day old puppies who were rescued by PawMatch from an outlying animal control shelter. We got the call from Holly on Thursday evening, October 12, and we picked them up on the morning of Friday the 13th!
The mama was checked out by the vet and staff at Banfield Pet Hospital in
We loaded them all in the car and brought them home to the area we had set up for her. We decided to just let them all rest for that day. She and the pups had a lot of fleas, so we gave her a Capstar (prescribed by our wonderful vet, Dr. Todd Riggan, at White Rock Veterinary Hospital) and decided to give them a bath the next day.
The first order of business was a name. We all agreed rather quickly on the name Hannah for our sweet & lucky mother with the soulful eyes. Tomorrow we will tackle identifying and naming the pups.
Hannah is very, very gentle with us, allowing us humans free access to the pups. But she is ferociously protective of them when other animals come near-- a true mother lioness in action! Even our old cats Link and Chloe are run from the kitchen if they wander curiously in. And dogs Luci and Jack are absolutely NOT welcome. We have a gate set-up across the kitchen to separate everyone, and another gate fencing off her area of the kitchen for extra security.
