August 15, 2007

Junior's skin allergy

We'll be taking Junior to the vet this weekend to treat her skin allergy. Junior and Ginne are tough kids, having survived the ordeal after their owners abandoned them, and having roughed it out in the outdoors with the rest of the dogs at the shelter, being domesticated dogs themselves.

We made a visit to the shelter a few weeks ago and bathed the girls, and by all accounts despite their right to distrust humans, were jubilant to see us. It's always a bittersweet experience to see the very dog that we fostered and trained, subsequently entrusted to an adoptive family, to be frivolously abandoned at the end of the day. I always feel I owe the dogs something, for subjecting them to a family that eluded all responsibilities of decent pet ownership.

Junior is down with hair loss and rashes on one side of her trunk - her belly, shoulders and chest. Hopefully, her allergy will lessen as she gradually gets used to sleeping in the outdoors.

This is an overdue post, but I just want to express my thoughts that she is no less a lovable companion dog and with Ginne, very, very suitable for adoption.

Please give them some hope.


21 July 07 - Junior's rashes spread rapidly. Hope it's more controlled now.


Ginne and Junior at the shelter, bathed.


Junior in her happier days at the home where we thought would be permanent.

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