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01-18-2014, 04:59 PM | #16 |
and molliluv too! Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Irving TX, USA
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| thanks lil sis, I may take you up on that foster offer sometime. I am going to try and save some and then get them adopted so fosters would be great. To anyone else that wants to help please PM me. One or two saved might not seem like a lot but I am sure it seems like the whole word to that one or two dogs.
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01-18-2014, 07:20 PM | #17 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Ocala, FL
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| Lil Sis We Have People Who Can Pull But if you could foster for a few days that would be FABULOUS - I'm working on getting an estimate to pull and transport from Miami to my area - North Central Florida - I'm in-between Gainesville and Ocala - There are plenty of drivers and one driver is my contact's husband who works in Brevard County (Cocoa Beach area) once a week and my contact lives in the next county - I am not certain on what day he works but I was told there is no problem getting the dogs from Miami to Brevard - I [obviously] want to go the least expensive route and if you could foster we could use my contact's husband - My contact (Mel) is having one of those [few] days - she was given a dog to foster and had his microchip scanned and found out he was stolen and she was returning him last night , another foster dog had puppies today, she was going to an adoption event today, I think today or tomorrow she is delivering two dogs to a new family - and the list goes on - I will get more info on the transport as I am new to this and not certain how everything works - Lil Sis how far are you from the shelter? Could you go the shelter or near to pick up a dog after he/she has been pulled? Or where would be a good place for someone to meet you to drop off a dog to foster for a few days? PLEASE be specific as I haven't been to Miami in years and I will need to pass this info on when I get more details I will get the info for the person you need to contact and Private Message you - I don't have that info or I would give it to you now - Thanks |
01-18-2014, 08:37 PM | #18 |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
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| I hope that all of you are thinking about the vetting needs and/or requirements. These pups will need to be healthy enough for travel and each airline has requirements for what they want them to have. Most want a travel document that is to be completed and signed by a vet. ALSO, if taking any into your home, I strongly suggest that you quarantine them. You could end up with your own pups being ill. It is not as simple as just taking them out of a shelter and sending them to someone. I cannot help at all because we have yorkies dying in shelters in Texas...so my priority is them. I would suggest you reach out to United Yorkie Rescue .. and if they cannot help, perhaps they have some other contacts. They used to not pull from Miami Dade, but that may have changed over the years. Not trying to discourage anyone, but it is never as simple as it is being made to sound; and please do consider that some of these pups may have immediate vetting needs.
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01-19-2014, 07:01 AM | #19 |
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| I know first hand how this can get out of hand. I don't know about everyone else but I plan to take any saved to my shelter. We have a great medical team. Usually as long as they are not dying and you let the vet know they will give a health certificate to save a dog. The one I pulled from lancaster was literally 1/2 an hour away from being pts- a 10 yr old cocker spaniel with a heart murmur and dry eye, they health cert'd her and put her on plane and I picked her up and she was in foster for 2 weeks until she was healthy enough for adoption then got adopted the same day! It was the best feeling to know I helped save her- but the costs of all that was about $300- so yes please make sure you can afford any emergent medical care before pulling.
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01-19-2014, 10:51 AM | #20 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Ocala, FL
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| LadyJane - I appreciate your post and yes we need to be realist when we even just THINK about pulling, let alone pull and bring into our home w/other animals and our family - I now see why rescues do not pull from M-D - it gets complicated - I asked about the diseases and the only answer I received was regarding Hillsborough County (Tampa) I also know another shelter had a problem with parvo and many dogs were put down but I do not remember which shelter - If you have any advise for us PLEASE do not hesitate to post - in my area we mostly get hunting dogs we rarely get small dogs - there are some in Gainesville and Ocala but nothing like M-D - Many times good intentions can go wrong so please post any concerns you have as I have never pulled from a shelter before - all of my dogs are rescue but they have not been in a shelter - I have experience with rabbit rescue since 2006 but that's a completely different than pulling a dog - Thanks, |
01-19-2014, 01:24 PM | #21 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Ocala, FL
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| Please Ignore My Mispelled Words I just read my last post - please ignore my misspelled / incorrect words - sorry! |
01-19-2014, 02:00 PM | #22 |
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| Thank you Linda for keeping us real. I know I have wanted to foster before and the reality was I couldn't. I do not have funds for vet care. Sadly I have two dogs who are ill and my focus. I also have a dh who has a com premised immune system ( myeloma) But I looked ... I could put the, in a playpen in a separate area. That could work for 1 or two days....if they have parvovirus I can not bring in my home. I live south....sw216 st. ....not far from turnpike. Any landmark in south area is ok. Pm me if this works and my tiny bit of help will help
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01-19-2014, 03:03 PM | #23 |
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| Fostering a pup is not something to take lightly. We all want to help these poor pups...they tug at our heartstrings. This is why I feel very strongly that people who foster should do so with an established group. I have seen many independent rescues run into so many issues...and then they want someone to bail them out. Problem is that if everyone did that, what a mess we would have. Anyone interested in saving the pups in Miami should probably find out what groups pull from there, look into them and what they do and then, perhaps offer to help them. Just my thoughts...
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01-20-2014, 07:34 AM | #24 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: South Florida
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| I just checked.. it appears only Linda is left. She is avaliable on Wednesday.
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01-20-2014, 08:03 AM | #25 |
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| oh well that is good news. I hope you and Jill continue trying to help these guys. I am going to look into helping the yorkies around DFW. Good job everyone. It's nice to see everyone care so much!
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01-23-2014, 04:42 PM | #26 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Ocala, FL
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| [I think] Linda And Pickles Have Been Adopted The last two Yorkies were Linda and Pickles - today was the day for Linda to be up for adoption [and I think Pickles too] - both are no longer listed - hoping this is good news |
01-28-2014, 07:05 PM | #27 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Ocala, FL
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| Sick Foster Dog From Miami-Dade My friend is fostering a dog that was pulled from Miami [by a rescue] and was supposedly quarantined for 10 days and was supposedly given meds - She found out today this was not true - the foster dog made two of her dogs sick - one had to go to the vet today and the bill was $650 and her dog has to go back back to the vet tomorrow - She was assured [by the rescue] the foster dog had been vetted and agreed to foster for the same rescue I contacted and mentioned under this post - She has and fosters very large mastiff and corso dogs - She also found out that Miami does have an issue with diseases - as LadyJane mentioned in this post - I will post more details when I get them from my friend - she is absolutely livid, livid, livid right now so I didn't ask her a lot of questions - will post another update after I talk with her - Having issues pulling from Miami appears to have been a blessing in disguise - |
01-28-2014, 08:38 PM | #28 |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
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| I am so sorry to hear this. I don't know why any rescue would do such a thing. It is always so important to quarantine new pups from a shelter....to knowingly lie and expose someone's personal pups is just awful.
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01-30-2014, 10:03 AM | #29 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: california
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| We assume that all dogs from shelters are sick. They are vaccinated when the are recieved and then placed in the general population. No time whatsoever to build up immunities. We won't take any puppies that have been placed in the shelter but frequently they call us to say they have a new litter and we'll take them from the owner. They try but realize how difficult it is save them once they're exposed. Our local shelter has such a high incidence of parvo and now distemper that we don't even pull from them. Sad but too risky for our own and foster dogs. We don't have kennels and all our dogs are in foster. Only a few of us have set ups for isolation. |
01-31-2014, 06:36 PM | #30 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Ocala, FL
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| Sick Foster Dog From Miami-Dade This is an update regarding pulling and fostering from Miami-Dade - My friend fostered a dog pulled from M-D and she was assured via a Facebook conversation the dog had been boarded for 10 days and given antibiotics - All of the records she received for the foster dog came from M-D - no info on boarding or meds - This cannot be the case as several of her dogs became ill and one went to her personal vet - After 3 days at the vet (dog went home at night) her vet suggested she take her dog to the University of Florida so at 6:15 last night I received a text she was taking Ayla to UF - From texts I received beginning at 2 AM this morning: 2 AM she made it through a lung trachea and the vet was able to get samples to grow a culture - she has breathing tubes and nebulizer - By 8:30 AM her breathing was better and she is back on several antibiotics and her kidneys are also being monitored - By 8 PM tonight Ayla was up and around a little and her kidneys are good so far and she is still on oxygen - I wanted to post an update earlier but the foster dog went to the rescue today for an adoption event - several hours later my friend told the rescue she did not want the dog back and she needed to concentrate on getting her dogs well - I didn't want to post something to YT and by some freak chance this would be mentioned on a FB post and the rescue involved saw it on FB before the foster dog went to the adoption event - My friend had one other foster dog who is already on antibiotics [from an injury before my friend fostered her] and the rescue agreed to pick up the second dog and foster her too - she was picked up at 8 PM tonight - Alya lost 12 pounds during this ordeal - I feel really bad for my friend - I tried for several days to pull from Miami a few weeks ago but it never worked out - I have two little dogs that are around 12 pounds and my dad's yorkie is around the same weight too - I really feel it was a blessing that we could not pull b/c I'm now wondering if a small dog would have survived this - Alya is 100+ pounds - I will probably post another update when the culture results come back just for FYI - |
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