Dog Log 1st-2nd week of.2014

Dog Log 1st-2nd week of.2014
2014.01.20.

Our regular readers may notice that we had a “little” gap in publishing our web diary. The main reason for that on one hand is that it is not so easy to be up-to-date all the time, and who are well updated about the life of the shelter have many other things to do as well. On the other hand it is a hard profession. To summarize what happened, how it happened, why it happened in an entertaining way so that you readers don’t fall asleep after the 5th thought that introducing a new method would be fine. From now on the Webdiary will be written by the 2 of us: one who is well informed and the other one who possesses some writing talent.

New Year, new system, a new try to tell you about the daily life of our feathery, furry, naked and squamous inhabitants regularly, so this time we don’t even try to attempt to summarize the missed out period. We’d rather concentrate on the new year, especially its first 2 weeks, as due to the year end’s fireworks these first 2 weeks were really eventful. For a change it would have been good if this year had been different.

This year’s first arrival was Saci (Maki), a young yellow, neutered female who fortunately was microchipped so was lucky enough to get home on the same day. Her owners told us
it had not been her first escape, as a 2-meter-high fence was not a challenge for him. Her owners promised to make an escape-proof fence.

Our second incomer was a young dachshund cross female, Nari. Unfortunately she was not microchipped, her original owner has not shown up. Nari was really badly affected by the
happenings, furthermore she started to heat some time after her arrival, at least we thought so. But at the vet she turned out to be mid-term pregnant but the stress and shocks led to a miscarriage. She had a life-saving operation and after some days she could move to a temporary home in a much better physical but only a slightly better psychical condition. At the moment we have a suspicion that maybe something good is about to happen to her.

The third guest was Hope, a Papillion-like young female. Unfortunately she was not microchipped. When finding her she could not use her right foreleg and had a huge hernia on
her stomach. She needed immediate operation. Not so surprisingly her owner has not shown up, thus avoiding giving explanation about the serious condition of the puppy.

Fenyő, the 3-month-old sweet fluffy black fur ball was found in district 17. he was not microchipped and her owner has not shown up. S/he might have been a Christmas gift too early bored of?!

Puppies usually smell like babies. Those who have smelled puppies know what a wonderful scent it is. Well, the first puppy of 2014 did not smell like a baby but like fabric conditioner that’s why the name Silan was a logical choice. The nice previous “owner” thought the easiest way to get rid of the puppy and the responsibility for him/her was to throw him/her into the backyard of a family house in Monor. The house owner could not keep him/her because of his/her own dog so he/she brought the puppy to us. Fortunately Silan could find his/her dream owner in a record time. With the obligation to vaccinate and neuter, of course.

Benjamin, the young German Shepherd male was picked up from M0 highway by animal friends, nearby Pécel. He had a collar but no chip. Fortunately, thanks to the Facebook shares his original owner came for him and he could go home as a vaccinated and microchipped dog.

Unfortunately we couldn’t avoid having an injured dog in the first week of the year. An old male dog was run over by a car near Csepel. He was neither microchipped nor had any
unique identifier. Virtually all of the rear leg bones exploded, so he didn’t even have a chance for getting operated. We don’t know why he was on the streets, whether he went under the wheel of a car because he was frightened by the fireworks, or he had been wondering on the streets for a long time. In any case, the fact the he was without microchip, a unique identifier, with a huge tumour on the leg, alone on the street… his owner must have been an irresponsible type of person.

We don’t know your name, where you came from, where you were heading to, whether you had a happy life, all we could do was to make your life easier at the end … but we won’t
forget you, be happy over there, we could see you were a beautiful dog.

Borsika was found on 31 December 2013 in Borsika Street. Presumably he is one of those dogs who ran away from home because of the fireworks. He had no chip, no unique
identifier.

He is not the friend making kind of dog, in the first few days he showed his “smile” to every passer by indicating that he was not in the mood for recruiting buddies. But he put some persistent caretakers and volunteers who did not give up and were willing to reach him with a soft toy on the buddy list. He does not wish anything but to be in someone’s lap, and after he makes sure that you come with good intentions he quits snarling after some days and from that time on you are selected for the full time Best Friend position. This position has some obligations of course: the main task of BFs is to put him into their laps as much as they can!

Jakab, the greying pointer male was found in district 17, at the crossroad of Zrínyi and Péceli streets. He was microchipped but unfortunately was not registered. But he was lucky as his owner could find him on Facebook and he could go home with a registered microchip.

After some days to our greatest surprise a pointer appeared at the gates of NOE and he seemed to know the place, he was buddying up with the dogs. After we caught and recognized him we called the owner with much curiosity how Jakab ended up with us again. His owner was looking for him for hours as he had escaped again. He promised to watch over his dog more carefully and prevent his attempts to escape. We are glad if dogs feel good at our place but it would be better if we didn’t see Jakab again as he is exposed to a lot of danger among the cars on the way to the shelter.

The Katedra family consists of 3 about 10week old puppies: Matek, Fizika and Kémia. The ladies were thrown into the yard of school in Kep street.

In the picture we can see the bischon Mia, at least according to her microchip data this is her name. She was found in district 17, in Péceli street on 08/01/2014. She was born in December 2006. She is microchipped but on the basis of the registered data the owner cannot be found.

A young lady found this injured guinea pig in district 18 during collecting litter. We have no idea how he got to that place and what could cause his injury. Despite his presumed pains he tolerated our examinations calmly. The pictures speak for themselves: he hardly has any hair, he is in a neglected condition, with injuries of unknown nature. We took him immediately to the vet and later we received the following report from Dr Georgina Papp: ‘So far he is fine and eats well, not too much hay but more dry food. The swelling is a large oedema. His laboratory tests will reveal further information. On all his legs there are extensive ulcers. His whole body is covered with wounds and scars. He is extremely thin, anorexic, massive conjunctivitis and blepharitis can be seen on both eyes. One of the nails was 1.5 cm long, the rest is just "a little". Otherwise he’s terribly nice, grateful and communicative. He just smells awfully from the extensive dermatitis. He was named Robinson...’

And last but not least we would like to introduce a special newcomer: Pinkerton, the 17 year old male minipig (at least he was male). Pinkerton used to be a family’s favourite and when got bored of, their owners decided to eat him. But a good fairy saved and brought him to a farm which unfortunately he had to leave now.

That’s all about our newcomers, the list seems to be endless, while the willingness to adopt has been at rock bottom.

Fortunately, there were some lucky dogs especially puppies who could move to a new home.

Calia, Futó Fokos, Futó Filc and Bamba Böszme moved into their new home with a temporary adoption contract until they are neutered.

Pita:

And a real miracle: Balázs, the not so young puli cross, permanent member of our backyard, will spend the rest of the winter in a warm place. A nice family regularly visited him. They walked him every weekend, but when they learnt that that were others who did the same, they decided to take action: on Saturday they signed the adoption contract.

Balázs first way led to the bathroom, the owners tried to wash off the dust of the backyard and here is the result, the (almost) white Balázs!

Be happy Balázs!

We received pictures from our former protégée, belonged to the underdog category (black, old, crossbreed), Gyoma, who lives in Germany with some other dogs. Apparently he is
reliving his second childhood.

Ijász Pepe also made his appearance to wish a Happy New Year:

Unfortunately bad news also came in the new year. Bandi left us. He was a resident of NOÉ for almost 6 years. Everybody liked him, because he was beautiful, cute, cuddly, and nice. If we went to him he was just flashing his charming smile and nobody could leave him without not having carried him out for a walk. Although the beautiful dog often caught the eyes of visitors and adopters, they were discouraged by Bandi’s escaping, jumping over fences nature. We were sure that this lovely dog would have made a perfect indoor pet. Well, we’ll never know… during the 6 years no one chose him… and he just passed away silently…in the afternoon he ate heartily, was jumping, playing as usual… in the morning we could only find his lifeless body.

We are sorry for not being able to give you an owner, a family, all we could give you was love. You will always stay with us, we will always see your nice smile, be happy over the Rainbowbridge, somebody must have been waiting for You over there!

For you our protégées are waiting. Not only for adopters but also for walkers! Unfortunately besides the low willingness to adopt the willingness to walk our doggies is also very very poor. Our protégées are waiting for you from week to week and want to hear the clashing of leash karabiners. They are always very excited at the weekends because they can get free from the cages for at least a short time, and they can sniff around the road behind the shelter, in the bushes and they can get their well-deserved stroke and snack portion. We have dogs for everyone. If you are a beginner we will provide you a slower, calmer or an “older type” of walking partner. For the more experienced we recommend “normal speed” dogs that are less mature but do not run mindlessly into any direction. And for advanced walkers we can
provide a Hardcore section. What to expect at NOÉ? Let’s surprise you. Be brave, come to walk and you will find out.