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Tonight, 4 years ago I couldn’t bear any longer to ignore. I saw a dog posted on here in Urgent Action Required who had been found by the dog warden in Ballymun and who’s time up had passed on the 25th of January. Tomorrow, 4 years ago…myself, my dad and my other dog would go to Ashton Pound to meet this dog. Kathy knew I was interested in fostering as I was someone on begging to foster a puppy a few weeks earlier (we both knew I hadn’t a clue about the work involved with puppies and Kathy,always direct, said as much). Kathy advised me to go meet this 2-3 year old dog. As those of you on here a while know, when time was up in Ashton Pound…it was up!
We went into the kennel and asked about this dog that the pound named Brandon. I remained inside with one of the staff who passed on some food from Dogs in Distress. Meanwhile my dad went out to the cold wet yard where the larger dogs seemed to be kept. My dad tried desperately not to look to either side of him as he couldn’t bear to see the dogs at either side also hoping to leave that place. My dad told me that Brandon was too small to see above the door of the kennel so was standing on his hind legs. The noise was incredible…Brandon licked my dad’s hand through the bars.
Brandon was wild. I took him for a walk in the mucky grounds of Ashton Pound. He knew the route..he didn’t bother to look up. We tried several times to get him in the car. When we did get him in one of the staff took his lead and put its end through the rear window on the driver side of my dad’s car and closed it to keep him from running off again.
When we go a bit down the road we pulled into a petrol station on the way to the M50 and released his lead. Brandon, filthy and highly anxious, managed to walk along every surface of the interior, including the ceiling.
We only meant to foster him…my dad said no way was any dog coming in to this house going to leave again…this is his Forever Home!
In life there are some moments you just don’t forget…they stay with you and change how you view the world. I never take my dogs for granted knowing what I saw in that pound on that day and thinking what would have become of Brandon.
In 2010 Fingal and Dublin City (Ashton Pound), there were respectively 206 and 87 dogs killed! Every day I’m thankful that my family member, Brandon, was not one of them!
Here’s to all of our companions who made it out and changed our lives forever!
image.jpgSome Valentines and Dabs’ birthday cake/chicken photos. Brandon is doing his Tellington Touch course on Sunday…looking forward to that. Dabs had a biopsy and he will need a tumour excision soon…NOT looking forward to that…a bit of a worry really seeing it was just last August since the poor soul had major Spinal surgery for a degenerated disk. He’s a tough cookie though but he could do with a few prayers as he is a query sarcoma based on his fine needle biopsy.
image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpgWell Sir I hope you got on well today ….we have all fingers and paws crossed for you here for the best outcome….
Thanks Audrey. I rang Dabs’s vet this morning. He will have an excision of the lump on Monday morning, then the pathology can be checked. As usual, Dabs’ vet is very calm and positive. He will aim to get a good clear margin. Dabs loves going to the vet and assumed he was going this morning and glued himself to the front door making it a bit tricky for me to escape to work.
Dabs had his excision procedure today and was back to himself after 2 servings of boiled chicken….in fact he returned to his occupation in a supervisory capacity…that’s right..the sheep trials.
image.jpgDabs, the Head Judge of the sheep dog trials
. Happy your procedure has been done, keep eating your favourite food and get well as soon as possible .Good Man Dabs pity the herding doggies cant hear your commentary they would get the job done in half the time!
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