[gemy]

I was going to write a rather long post, about some ideas to keep Tika safe in the wilderness; do you realize even in her home town population 6300, it lies 300 miles north of Edmonton Alberta, what I would call God's country already, and then they are probably going further north for their hunting trips. This locale you'd be hunting big game, moose, elk, bears, bighorn sheep, etc, and likely not hiking in so much as drive/atv in, set up a base camp, and then the members of the hunting trip, hike out daily for their hunt, and often times the "cook" stays at the base camp, for meal prep etc.
I couldn't get the idea of Tika out of my head in this environment. I did come up with some ideas, but now that she is going to be re-homed too, I suppose a moot point. While I was never a hunter, in my younger years, I'd go backpacking, canoeing into the interior of large parks, and yes did take my small dog with me. Her name was Honey and she was a cocker spaniel.

Oh well, certainly hope that Tika and Pooter land up in a good home, prepared to care the rest of their lives for them.

Linda I've thought of another excuse/reason for re-homing dogs; can't afford the vet care, dog is too sick, dog requires surgery, what-ever.