(May 6, 2017 at 11:12 am)Minimalist Wrote: Funny but when one of our Placement volunteers was calling families on the waiting list she was asked if the dogs "spoke English." I don't know how she didn't laugh in the woman's face.
You know, MH, compared to the EU and UK-Commonwealth countries, bringing a dog into the US is a piece of cake. They need a certificate of rabies vaccination and a clearance that they are healthy enough to travel from a vet in the originating country. These two had a full battery of shots over there. They cleared Customs in a heartbeat and the United Airlines personnel didn't even beat them up as they have been known to do with human travelers. Yong will go to the vet today. He tested positive for something called Heartworm so we will redo the test and begin the treatment regimen which is mainly antibiotics of different types and rest. Jessica is at a vet now being tested. In a day or two we will move her north to Prescott to live with a foster for a few days before she is spayed. Then her new family will come down to pick her up, get post-op instructions direct from the vet, and drive her home to where they live in the absolute middle of nowhere! Hence why she is being vetted BEFORE they get her.
We have two dogs pending in China and 3 more in Mexico. We have already identified homes for those 5. Mexico is a snap for us, of course.
That's good. There is a nasty H3N2 canine influenza virus prominent in S Korea and China. Would hate for them to be the source of an outbreak (there have been several in the US). The heartworm sucks, hope it's not advanced to the adult heartworm stage (oral antiparasitics don't work on adult worms). Our last rescue had it bad, vet had to shave the back, deep IM injections into her back muscles of an arsenic analog. Went for over a month, movement restricted to cage life, and ended up costing about $4K. We were all miserable.
Best of luck.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
