A Desperate Plea For Help

[whippetgood]

Join our free community today.

Connect with other like-minded dog lovers!

Login or Register

Hi Folks,

Well its nearly 1.00am in the morning and i was just off to bed when i received an email from Greyhound Gap crying out for some temperary help while they sort out a blind dog with an eye operation!!! i won't go on!! but you can read their email of their struggle to put to rights a very difficult situation BOY DO THEY DO GOOD WORK!!!!!

Anyway, if anyone can help in any way just get in touch with the G.G

Here is their email:

A few weeks ago Gap took in a blind lurcher male now named Bod and his little male friend Cookie who is mainly collie with a little staffi in him. Since then they have been in kennels and we have tried in vein to find them either a foster home or permanant home together.

Today we took the little blind boy to see the specialist optomologist and he needs £2500 worth of surgery down in Leominster, we will fundraise and are happy to get the operation done it means if its a success he will have nearly normal sight restored, at the moment though we arnt thinking about this. However, he isnt doing well in kennels and the amount of noise stimulation is stressing him and causing him to lose weight (we have seperated them to make sure that the other isnt eating the food now they have settled in). They wont operate until he is in a stable environment as the operation is very sensitive and they literally have to make holes in each eye put in a substance that turns the cataract to mush, then suck it out and put in each eye a false lens.

One of our volunteers here in Stoke on Trent can take Bod and get him settled as he needs out of kennels asap but that leaves little Cookie on his own in the kennels and it will break his heart. Cookie is we think a collie x staffi alot of collie in their and is a total sweetheart. He will be fine aslong as someone is around to settle him in and there are other dogs in the home. Cookie gets on fine with all other dogs and met the kennel cats today and wasnt overly interested just curious and wanted to sniff when Tinks ran. He is a little strong on leash to begin with BUT soon settles and is very bidable keen to both learn and please.

Bod needs to be sorted as soon as possible but I really really cannot see Cookie suffer alone and together in kennels Bod suffers because he is stressed. Im not willing to leave him alone in kennels simple, it seems we cant find a willing foster as he isnt a sighthound but what he is is a loyal boy who has done right by his little friend and thus far kept him safe. He deserves a chance as much as any sighthound coming into our care hence why when we took them from the pound he wasnt left behind. We could so easily have done so but there was no way.

If anyone can help or think of anyone who may be able to help please let me know.

Cookie is vaccinated, kc vaccinated, microchipped and neutered. Same as with any Gap dog his needs will be met by the rescue whilst we try to look for a very special home for a very special boy. Cookie has spent who knows how long now looking out for his little blind friend and its about time he now had someone to love, cherish and look out for him

This will be the hardest splitting of dogs ive ever had to deal with but nobody has been able to offer to take them both and Bod really does need settling some tlc and then onto his operation.

If you click the link below you can see Cookie

Cookie

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g297/loo...5/dogs/bod2.jpg

and the two of them together

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g297/loo.../dogs/bode3.jpg

IF ANYONE CAN FIND IT IN THEIR HEART TO SEE PAST THE FACT COOKIE ISNT A GREYHOUND/LURCHER AND OFFER HIM A SOFA SPACE TILL WE CAN FIND HIM A HOME PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP. MY HEART BROKE FOR THESE BOYS TODAY AND I PHYSICALLY WANTED TO SCOOP COOKIE UP AND BRING HIM HOME HE LOVES BEING CUDDLED BUT WITH EIGHT HERE ALREADY ALL WITH VERY SPECIFIC NEEDS IT WOULDNT BE RIGHT FOR THE LITTLE MAN.

Lisa

--

You are receiving this message because you are a member of the forum located at: http://greyhoundgap.proboards35.com/index.cgi

Your account username at this forum is "whipetgood"

 

[k4tie-d]

oh hes lovley :wub:

such a sad story, i hope they can find them homes together,

good luck cookie :luck:

good luck bod :luck:

 

[whippetgood]

oh hes lovley :wub:

such a sad story, i hope they can find them homes together,

good luck cookie :luck:

good luck bod :luck:

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

​

[/quote

Yes they are a lovely pair and hopefully it will all work out for them :luck:

 

[Lisa73]

Thanks all we may have found a temporary solution whilst we check out a couple of offers. One of our volunteers who has 2 female greyhounds and is currently fostering a male greyhound is going to bring the male to kennels on Saturday to meet Cookie. Biggles can still be a little bit funny with non sighthounds so we need to be sure. If Biggles is okay then Jen has four days off and will take Cookie home and see how he settles thus giving us more of an idea of how he is in a home environment and how he copes without Bod. Bod although blind is much much more independant and visiting the optomologist yesterday with Cookie didnt seem phased, poor Cookie was worried sick.

They were actually found straying together both with a barrel tag on and both of the barrel tag bottoms conveniently missing. An appeal in the local paper for help brought no one forward and I was at least hoping someone may have called anonomysly to say who's dogs they were and give us some background information on whether they were kenneled housed etc.

On arriving at the kennels the bond was very evident, if they are in a new place Bod grabs Cookie's tail whilst Cookie walks through and Cookie at first was watching to see that Bod had found the food bowl. Two weeks on its every man for himself :lol: and Cookie will eat the lot if not watched hence seperating at meal times. How someone could cast these two out is beyond me but the optomologist thinks Bod's eyes are something that has gradually worsened so possibly the reason. When out and about walking with someone else taking the responsibility for Bod we can see Cookie visibly chill out and relax bless his little heart and we definatly feel he is under too much pressure to take care of him probably something to do with the collie blood and giving himself a job. Bod is also very vocal around Cookie and constantly rides his back clambering all over him and almost bullying him :lol: Cookie just stands there and takes it. All this has led us to believe its about time now Bod stood on his own four feet with human love and help and Cookie got the chance to be a normal dog. :huggles:

Will keep everyone updated on how Saturdays meeting goes and fingers crossed one way or another we can find a suitable placement. If he settles with Jen I think she would be quite tempted to keep the lad. Then we can head onto feeding the little Odd Bod up and getting him over to Leominster for his op probably early April.

 

[Rae]

Cookie sounds like one in a million I so hope he gets a place of his own very soon. Well done GG for helping a non-pointy.

 

[FeeFee]

I've been following these boys' story, I'm just so glad they've found their way to GAP, where I know they will get the very best care available.

Everything crossed that little blind boy can be helped to get some sight back. I suspect the costs of his treatment will be huge, though - are GAP planning any kind of fundraiser towards it?