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Somehow over the course of the last couple months, a young female stray dog has taken up residence at my office buiding. She is very playful and easy going and when she first arrived she was malnurished. We(employees) have been feeding her and a vet has even paid a visit to "fix" her last month. The surgery was sucessful and she is up to date on her shots as well. Upper management says she needs to find a new home or they will call to have her taken away. Her name is Maggie is she would make the perfect companion for just about anyone. She gets along with other dogs and kids too! If anyone is intrested in adopting her please call me so I can arrange a meeting between you & her! I´m certain she will win your heart from the first moment you see her! She is of medium build with a tuxedo coat(black with some white on her chest) I would say she resembles a Border Collie. PM me if you want some pics.

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El pescado
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Hope you find someone, im always wanting to take streetdogs home, but we already have 3... good luck

zer0nz - you guys sound like my husband and me. We have 3 dogs and 4 cats, all but one are rescues.

El Pescado - you might want to also publish ads on sites like Mis Mascotas and Bayer Club de Mascotas. I have had some good luck finding homes for strays that way. Also, if you do up a little ad with a picture, mentioning that she is spayed, up to date with shots, approximate age, etc. I would be happy to send it to a friend who works at a vet clinic. They get inquiries from people that want to adopt animals.

Since both of you have 3 dogs, maybe I´ll just take her home with me....we just have 2. I mean whats another dog right! Dont exactly know where I will be sleeping tonight if I do, but it shouldnt matter much since my queen size bed is already full with my wife, my son, & the other 2 dogs(small, toy poodles)

El pescado wrote:Since both of you have 3 dogs, maybe I´ll just take her home with me....we just have 2. I mean whats another dog right! Dont exactly know where I will be sleeping tonight if I do, but it shouldnt matter much since my queen size bed is already full with my wife, my son, & the other 2 dogs(small, toy poodles)

it becomes a expensive with 3, $55,000 on de-ticking the dogs and the house last weekend, and i just read the back of the label that says i must apply the frontline every 2 months to keep the ticks away!!, (my gfs family's way of walking the dogs is opening the front gate and let them play with the street dogs, they come home with all types of nasties)

He he, at least the dogs are small. Our German shepherd mix sleeps on my husband's side of the bed. The mutt sleeps next to me, he's the smaller of the two, about 10 kilos. The third dog, a miniature poodle sleeps on the couch, she doesn't like anyone too close to her when she is sleeping. The cats generally sleep on the other half of the couch or in the spare bedroom.

I have been able to integrate some animals. With others it just doesn't work. Once my ex brought home a gorgeous pekinese. We wanted to keep her, but she wanted to be the alpha female and the poodle wasn't having it. After having to separate one too many fights, we ended up rehoming her. However, the German shepherd mix has fit in fine. She has always been very submissive with the poodle, even though the poodle is small and old compared to her.

zer0nz wrote:

El pescado wrote:Since both of you have 3 dogs, maybe I´ll just take her home with me....we just have 2. I mean whats another dog right! Dont exactly know where I will be sleeping tonight if I do, but it shouldnt matter much since my queen size bed is already full with my wife, my son, & the other 2 dogs(small, toy poodles)

it becomes a expensive with 3, $55,000 on de-ticking the dogs and the house last weekend, and i just read the back of the label that says i must apply the frontline every 2 months to keep the ticks away!!, (my gfs family's way of walking the dogs is opening the front gate and let them play with the street dogs, they come home with all types of nasties)

There is a domestically produced alternative to Frontline, Fiprokill that has the same active ingredients. We have been using it for a while, and it works just as well as Frontline, but it is at least cheaper. According to my dog groomer and my vet, this has been a really bad year for tick problems.

gringalais wrote:

zer0nz wrote:

El pescado wrote:Since both of you have 3 dogs, maybe I´ll just take her home with me....we just have 2. I mean whats another dog right! Dont exactly know where I will be sleeping tonight if I do, but it shouldnt matter much since my queen size bed is already full with my wife, my son, & the other 2 dogs(small, toy poodles)

it becomes a expensive with 3, $55,000 on de-ticking the dogs and the house last weekend, and i just read the back of the label that says i must apply the frontline every 2 months to keep the ticks away!!, (my gfs family's way of walking the dogs is opening the front gate and let them play with the street dogs, they come home with all types of nasties)

There is a domestically produced alternative to Frontline, Fiprokill that has the same active ingredients. We have been using it for a while, and it works just as well as Frontline, but it is at least cheaper. According to my dog groomer and my vet, this has been a really bad year for tick problems.

i saw that in sodimac for about half the price, but i really dont like the idea of ticks around the home so wanted them gone first time, it has worked, next time they can have the cheap stuff as a preventative, also went through 4 cans of raid tick killer spraying the whole house and garden!

good to know its a bad year and not normal!

Kind of got my street dog quota for the moment with just one puppy.

I am considering establishing an outdoor cat colony for stray cats once I get a shed / barn built. My one part-time house cat has more than paid for her cat food and vet bills in what I save in setting traps, poison, rodent control guys, and so on (not a fan of any of them). Never seen a live mouse anywhere near our house.

I have determined that my single female house cat has managed to nearly depopulate the mice (and one very big rat) from about 4 acres near our house and in to the neighbors property in a little over 3 months. She is now hunting greater distances from the house. I currently have a rather large mouse graveyard in back of my house because she wants to show me the good work in the morning by dropping them at the back door, or our puppy retrieves her handy work from the fields. Up to two corpses a day. The puppy has caught several live mice, but simply can not seem to figure out what to do with them after that other than play with them. Which means the puppy brings them back for me to have to do the dirty work of finishing them off. At least the kitty does not bring them home alive. Anyway, a cat that is only out for as little as 2 hours a day (sometimes overnight, and we get a double catch), averaging 1 mouse a day, equals about 30+ mice a month, or 365 mice in a year. I have noticed that the rate of mice has slowed down dramatically in the last couple of months, and this should be the time you see more than ever because it is spring. At that rate, the Xth region should be mostly mouse free by early next year, if you consider all those mice that never got a chance to reproduce at say a rate of 10 to 1 or more. So if I house a few more homeless cats in the barn, I should be able hopefully up the kill ratio.

I do have to give some credit to the neighbors however. She also has help from a pair of hawks (they seem to be more in to rabbit control however) and a pair of owls that live near our property and patrol every day (they seem to be around almost all day).

el pescado, have you decided to take the dog home? if not, a friend says:

"puedo ayudarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr con mucho gusto pero mandame una datos cuantos añitos tiene???
tengo muchos amigos que aman a los animales"