Shin, a 6 year-old male Siberian Husky, was rescued from a HDB home where he was leashed to the kitchen window all day—no walks, no opportunities of socialisation. He slept, ate and defecated within a 1m radius.
When we rescued him in ’08, his legs were found wobbly due to stunted growth and his nails were hooked and long. He was given a mere plate of rice, meshed with an egg a day.
Now after a year of proper foster care, Shin is completely different. He is fattened up, well socialised and lives in a community of other dogs. He is ready to go to a good forever home.
We are looking for an owner who understands the needs of the breed and knows the requirements of keeping a Siberian Husky in
Shin is: 6 yrs old/male/people friendly/loves his walks (cool weather)/castrated/vaccinated/dewormed/groomed regularly/trained of basic commands/a loving companion for life.
We appreciate if you could forward this to your family and friends. Interested parties, do make a careful decision. Contact projectjkteam@yahoo.com.sg
5 comments:
what a difference! You can see Shin is a lot happier now!
Hi,
I was out for lunch with my colleagues at Jurong Superbowl when I came across this pet shop called Pet's Fever.com. I stepped into the shop and was looked around only to find a puppy hiding behind a fenced area. (Would have missed it if I hadn't been looking out for dogs.)
The puppy was chained to a rack leaving him with less than a metre of leash to move around on. And the thing that angered me most was the rubber band that was tied around her snout. she was desperately trying to remove the rubber band which was cutting into her skin until I started playing with her.
I questioned the pet shop attendant about the rubber band and his reply was that the puppy was biting things. I asked who the puppy belonged to and he said it's a stray. She is a very very friendly dog which might be teething now thus explaining the biting.
I have no resources to home the pup right now so I am trying to look for someone who can do something about the situation. I do not trust SPCA to not put down the puppy nor do I trust SKC to even bother. So I'm appealing to you to try to rescue the puppy.
I've been following your story and think that your activities are extremely commendable. You were the first I thought of and I'm sorry if this is a burden but it saddens me to see the puppy treated like that.
Details of the shop:
1 Yuan Ching Road, #01-03, Jurong Superbowl, Singapore 618640
Tel: 6265 7618
Yours truly,
Calleigh
Hi Calleigh, we don't have any shelter, nor run one, so we don't know where we can board the puppy even if the petshop owner were to surrender it to us.
You're right, SPCA is limited in resources (eg. space) so they can't guarantee dogs surrendered to them won't be euthanised.
When you spoke with the attendant, did you tell them your views that the rubber hand wld harm the dog's snout? If so, what did they say? Was it a "no choice but we have to do this" approach?
Petshop owners are particular abt their reputation as their services interface with the genera public (it's a business after all), esp. when customers make comments abt hygiene/boarding conditions of dogs (be it for sale or boarding), so even if it's a stray brought in, your feedback that a rubber band tied tightly around a pup's snout in the aim to curb teething could be useful... and that it in no way educates the dog to stop teething as it is in its teething puppy stage.
I reckon the treatment of such is probably because it's an adopted stray, hence care "can afford to be" substandard in this context.
If you don't mind, let's bring this communication to email. Our email address is projectjkteam@yahoo.com.sg
Gd that your eyes were open to signs like these that reflect one's care for dogs under his/her charge.
very very cute dog=].
my dream dog, but too bad, i got a dog at home already=[
Putting a rubber band around the snout/muzzle area of the puppy can be considered abuse and SPCA does take this kind of cases seriously! Pls report if you can, for the puppy's sake?
jt
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