Post by chaoticwitch on Nov 13, 2015 22:28:40 GMT
I have to get this out, otherwise I could end up breaking furniture and that isn't something I have done for a long time.
A couple of weeks ago I took on a rescue dog. It was my treat to myself for giving up smoking. He is a beautiful 3 year old husky mix from Bulgaria, where he was abandoned to the streets as a puppy. When he was found he had a severely damaged front left leg, the damage was irreparable soft tissue damage and the poor thing lost his leg. After that he contracted a disease that nearly took his life, before he was adopted in and flown over to Britain. Unfortunately the lady who had adopted him passed away before he even got to her and he ended up living in the stables at a boarding kennel over here for 14 months.
He carries a lot of trauma with him and you can see it in his eyes. He is depressed, despondent and lost and I just want him to feel happy and contented.
A couple of days after I got him home, I noticed his paws were swollen and looked quite inflamed and sore so after checking with the rescuers that he had, had no problems previously, I took him to the vet where I was told that he had podermatitis and that he had been suffering with this for a long time judging on the condition of his paws. The vet gave me some antibacterial shampoo and some mite treatment and told me to return with him in a couple of weeks. On leaving the vet I contacted the rescuers again and told them of the situation. I also told them that I was angry that he had been suffering for some time and no-one had noticed.
I have been told now that as I had not officially signed any adoption contracts, it would be better if I instead, fostered him, this way they could pay for and monitor his treatment. They also told me that they were not happy for me to use the treatments given to me by the vet as they did not believe in chemically treating animals, and that they would rather pay for him to see a homeopathic vet. They found one and I travelled for 2 hours with him to see this vet who gave me a remedy for him (the same remedy I was given for post-natal depression), after a couple of days on the remedy he became worse. He refused to get up or go anywhere and was hardly eating. When I contacted the rescuers again we discussed what treatment the homeopathic vet had given him and they were shocked with the potency he had been given and told me that what was happening was a reaction to his remedy as it would seem that he had been overdosed by the vet!!!! That is the vet they sent me to!!!!
Since then they have got me to fill in a questionnaire, a really long questionnaire, for a behaviouralist, who they then told me they didn't like because she believed in vaccinating, something they do not agree with.
I have spent my entire life with dogs, in fact I understand dogs better than I understand most humans. To be honest I like most dogs more than I like most humans and I am angry, frustrated and fed up with the attitude of these rescuers. Whilst what they are doing to save these poor animals from the cruelty that they suffer, it was in their care that he got this problem with his paws. It was on their recommendation that I took him to a homeopathic vet that then overdosed him, causing him more stress. I am sick of not being responsible for his wellbeing and instead having to watch him suffer.
I don't have any say in how he is treated and if I fight them, they can just come and take him from me, he is still registered with them and his microchip is also registered with them. I hate not having any control and I hate having to watch him suffer whilst they make mistakes and judgements about his care, which so far have only made matters worse.
I have just come of a very lengthy Facebook chat, but it was getting heated and I didn't want to risk losing him with my attitude towards them. So I have come away and come on to here to rant away and hopefully get some of these feelings out.
Well rant over for now. Time to take a sleeping tablet and pass out for the night, before I give into a craving to smoke!!!!!!!
A couple of weeks ago I took on a rescue dog. It was my treat to myself for giving up smoking. He is a beautiful 3 year old husky mix from Bulgaria, where he was abandoned to the streets as a puppy. When he was found he had a severely damaged front left leg, the damage was irreparable soft tissue damage and the poor thing lost his leg. After that he contracted a disease that nearly took his life, before he was adopted in and flown over to Britain. Unfortunately the lady who had adopted him passed away before he even got to her and he ended up living in the stables at a boarding kennel over here for 14 months.
He carries a lot of trauma with him and you can see it in his eyes. He is depressed, despondent and lost and I just want him to feel happy and contented.
A couple of days after I got him home, I noticed his paws were swollen and looked quite inflamed and sore so after checking with the rescuers that he had, had no problems previously, I took him to the vet where I was told that he had podermatitis and that he had been suffering with this for a long time judging on the condition of his paws. The vet gave me some antibacterial shampoo and some mite treatment and told me to return with him in a couple of weeks. On leaving the vet I contacted the rescuers again and told them of the situation. I also told them that I was angry that he had been suffering for some time and no-one had noticed.
I have been told now that as I had not officially signed any adoption contracts, it would be better if I instead, fostered him, this way they could pay for and monitor his treatment. They also told me that they were not happy for me to use the treatments given to me by the vet as they did not believe in chemically treating animals, and that they would rather pay for him to see a homeopathic vet. They found one and I travelled for 2 hours with him to see this vet who gave me a remedy for him (the same remedy I was given for post-natal depression), after a couple of days on the remedy he became worse. He refused to get up or go anywhere and was hardly eating. When I contacted the rescuers again we discussed what treatment the homeopathic vet had given him and they were shocked with the potency he had been given and told me that what was happening was a reaction to his remedy as it would seem that he had been overdosed by the vet!!!! That is the vet they sent me to!!!!
Since then they have got me to fill in a questionnaire, a really long questionnaire, for a behaviouralist, who they then told me they didn't like because she believed in vaccinating, something they do not agree with.
I have spent my entire life with dogs, in fact I understand dogs better than I understand most humans. To be honest I like most dogs more than I like most humans and I am angry, frustrated and fed up with the attitude of these rescuers. Whilst what they are doing to save these poor animals from the cruelty that they suffer, it was in their care that he got this problem with his paws. It was on their recommendation that I took him to a homeopathic vet that then overdosed him, causing him more stress. I am sick of not being responsible for his wellbeing and instead having to watch him suffer.
I don't have any say in how he is treated and if I fight them, they can just come and take him from me, he is still registered with them and his microchip is also registered with them. I hate not having any control and I hate having to watch him suffer whilst they make mistakes and judgements about his care, which so far have only made matters worse.
I have just come of a very lengthy Facebook chat, but it was getting heated and I didn't want to risk losing him with my attitude towards them. So I have come away and come on to here to rant away and hopefully get some of these feelings out.
Well rant over for now. Time to take a sleeping tablet and pass out for the night, before I give into a craving to smoke!!!!!!!