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Ojo
I saw your grocery post. I hope they will deliver to you!
Also I had to tell you a bit more about Miss Darcy. She is a sweet heart. 101% prefect for our family. She and Simon are getting along amazingly well. They slept cuddled up together in the car all the way home today.
However I learned something from the foster mom when I pick D up that I was NOT happy about. Forster mom had toyed with keeping D, so SHE is the one that had her debarked. I didn't know this when I asked about watching her for choking because of scar tissue and she was real nonchalant about my question so I'm going to watch her real close anyways. And the kicker is she told us she had it done when my Dad asked if her previous owners had had it done and said " Well it wasn't done very well anyways, she can still kind of bark." I took D and ran then. I'm so so glad we have her and she is away from that. And its weird though, because you could tell Foster mom really loved her, but I still can't believe she debarked her.
Any ways. We are super happy, Darcy seems really happy and Simon is too. I'll post pictures later tonight.
Re: Ojo
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Why do vets even debark dogs in the first place? They're dogs, they bark. Is it more common than I think? Is it along the lines of having a cat's front claws removed?
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OMG.
What organization does she foster for? You can PM me if you don't want that on the board. That's so abhorrent I don't even have words. She should never be allowed to have another animal, either owned or fostered. States are banning that "surgery" because it's mutilation. People who foster animals should have more compassion than that. Google Chrome is opposed to my use of emoticons, so imagine the angry red face here.
I'm glad Darcy is away from that lady and I'm extremely happy she's getting along so well with Simon.
Honestly I don't know. I know that both the vets that foster mom works for won't do it and as far as I know none of the vets in the county I grew up in and where we got Darcy will do it. So I have no idea where she took her to have it done.
And it is a lot like having a cat's front claws removed. Same idea, to be more "convenient" for the owner and in my opinion some what cruel to the animal.
It's similar, but IMO, worse. Both surgeries take away a form of communication, but debarking can cause such bad scar tissue that it closes off the esophagus and the dog eventually chokes on their own food. Some states are making it illegal and many vets will not perform the procedure, but obviously there are still some a-holes out there who think it's okay.
I'm not sure of the name of the organization honestly. I'll have to ask my Mom's friend J and see. And I need to talk to J about it anyways. I don't think J knows that foster mom is the one that had it done to Darcy and I want to make someone aware that she is doing this.
It's not. She is just a very very strange person but at least I now Darcy was loved by her but now she has us and she is going to be so much better off.
I can't believe the foster mom had it done. I just can't. Are you going to tell the organization that she's attached to about it? I just can't see how people would think that's an okay thing to do to an animal.
I agree also that de-clawing cats=bad. I was originally concerned about my cats' ability to claw things and people, but once I found out more about it I made up my mind that there had to be a better way. I clip their little nails and have taught them to love their scratching post.