[ SHOWGSD-L ] FW: Rex -- Katrina GSD in need of a permanent home
- From: "MARGERY GOLANT" <mgolant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 20:14:37 -0500
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Posting at the request of Linda Kury. can anyone help ? This dog has
been through a lot. There are photos attached to the email, but they
won't make it through the List's server. I can forward them directly to
anyone who wants them - please email me privately.
Thanks.
Margy Golant
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-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Kury [mailto:lindakury@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 6:38 PM
To: Diane Roberts; Margery Golant
Subject: FW: Rex -- Katrina GSD in need of a permanent home
Please forward intervene as you can. thanks
[MARGERY E. GOLANT]
Hi,
My name is Julianne and I'm a volunteer with the Humane Society of
Louisiana. We are trying to place this beautiful purebred (owner had
papers but lost them) silver & black German Shepherd who is a Hurricane
Katrina survivor. He is an almost 8 year old dog and has been through
hell over the past few months since Hurricane Katrina struck in early
September. I am looking for someone to adopt or foster (preferably
adopt) this guy. If you could do a courtesy posting on your site, that
would be a tremendous help as well. The owner has agreed to let us place
in him in a permanent home if we can find a good one. She has had him
since he was born 7 years ago (she owned his mom who was bred once & she
kept Rex) and loves him, but due to housing circumstances (was living in
a hotel, but just recently moved into a FEMA trailer) she's not able to
have him with her and she doesn't want to him to be boarded at a vets
office any longer. Rex's owner also has some health issues and feels
like Rex would be better off if he could find a good stable home where
he would get lots of love and spend the rest of his life happy.
I'll try to keep this synopsis brief, but it is a long story so it
make take quite a bit of writing. Rex was left in the fenced in backyard
of his home when his owners evacuated for the hurricane. After the
hurricane, they had friends that were going and checking on him every
couple of days and leaving him food & water. At some point, someone cut
the lock on Rex's fenced in yard & opened the gate and Rex took off. He
got stuck in a canal (was trapped for several days) and was rescued by a
very kind firefighter who took him to an animal rescue group. Rex's
owners were able to find him and they got him back and were keeping him
in their hotel with them in another Louisiana city. After about 2
months, the owner of the hotel came and told Rex's owners that "the dog
has to go". So they took him to a local vet clinic and had him boarded.
After a month of boarding, the owner called me very upset as she was
faced with having to put him to sleep because she couldn't afford to
board him anymore, so we (HSLA) agreed to take him and try to find him a
foster home. Rex ended up spending almost 2 months in a vet clinic being
boarded and lost a LOT of weight. He normally weighs about 115 and he
had gotten down to 70 pounds. He was depressed & unhappy and the people
at the vet clinic labeled him as "aggressive". I think they were scared
of him so they didn't spend much time with him. His owner (due to health
reasons & relocation to a different area) only visited him twice in the
8 weeks he was there. As you can imagine he was terribly depressed.
We brought him to our Tylertown, MS shelter where he has his own
run and he is doing wonderful. The people working there said they have
not seen an ounce of aggression from him -- they love him and keep
telling me how beautiful he is and how sweet he is. He loves playing
with other dogs & going for walks and the owner says that he gets along
with cats.
The main issue with Rex right now is that he does not like his ears
to be touched and I found out from the owners that he has been having
ear problems for the past 3 years. I wouldn't want mine touched either
after having an ear infection for 3 years!!!!!!! His owner told me that
he won't let them put medicine in his ear, so I guess they just gave up
& didn't do anything else about it. Some of what the vet clinic labeled
as aggression may have been related to his ear problems. We're going to
take him to a really good vet and have an evaluation done on his ears
and start treatment on them. Rex has never been around small children so
he probably shouldn't be placed in a family with young children. He
wouldn probably do fine, but I would err on the side of caution. He has
been around teenagers & older kids and does well around them. He does
show a lot of the normal german shepherd protectiveness & guarding
tendencies (according to his owner). His owner said he is really good at
"testing" his human people and trying to get away with some things (like
getting on furniture) so whoever adopts him needs to be familiar with
the breed (I've got shepherd mixes & I'm very familiar with these
tactics!) and be very disciplined with him. He's pretty well trained and
is very easy to train (he would have made a great police dog). He's
used to being around people & loves for people to talk to him & spend
time with him. He has been so traumatized by this ordeal that he really
needs a wonderful family to take care of him & love him.
He is neutered & housebroken. He has been an inside/outside dog,
but really needs to be an inside dog. He also needs to eat several small
meals a day so he can regain some of the weight he has lost & get back
to a healthy weight. He will inhale a lot of food at one time if it is
available and will throw it up, so he needs small meals for a while.
He's getting old for his breed and needs a great home where he can live
out his life with lots of happiness. I believe his mom lived to be 12 so
he's got some good genes! I think he's lost some faith in his humans,
but the folks at Tylertown are regaining his trust & renewing his faith
in us! Attached are some pictures of him. I don't think it shows up too
well in the pictures but he is a big boy -- look at those feet!
We can provide transportation for him to get to a new home or a
foster home. You can contact me at vthokie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or you can
call me at (252) 943-1645 (cell). Please, I know someone out there can
help this poor guy. Thank you so much for any & all help you all may be
able to provide me.
Sincerely,
Julianne Harris
Humane Society of Louisiana
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