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Mastiffs Available For Adoption In North Carolina |
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Mastiffs Available For Adoption In North Carolina |
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AUDI-ADOPTED!
Click here to read Audi's AKA 'Duchess' Happy Ending' Story!!
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Poor skinny Audi as she first came to SSMR
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Life is good! |
 Meet Audi! Friendly to everyone, calm and gentle with small children, gets along well with other dogs. Post-Thanksgiving update on AUDI Nov. 27, 2006 |
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"Audi has now gained weight and weighs 110 pounds. A little more would be
fine, but she looks good!
She is loose in our house, learning house manners,
housebreaking, and gets along wonderfully with my
pack-who are not known for being accepting of strange
dogs.
She is still calm and very gentle, she would be fine in
a house even with small children or small dogs.
She seems to have suffered no ill effects from her brush
with death and runs and plays outside like a 2 year old
dog.
We'll never know how old Audi is.
We'll never know how she
came to be in a house with 60 other dogs.
We do know that her
last night there she lost a litter of 9 puppies and her 70 year
old owner had a serious stroke.
When county officials
removed Audi from the home, she so emaciated she went to my vet
who diagnosed her with ehrlichiosis ( tick disease). She was
about 30 pounds underweight and her blood work showed a dog in
organ failure.
But she has an amazing
will to live, and such a sweet temperament that to meet her is
to love her!
She has been treated for
the tick disease but will need to be retested in January. If
the parasites are still in her blood she will have to take an
antibiotic pill twice a day for 6 weeks or longer .
She's good about taking her medicine so it isn't a problem to
deal with.
After her antibiotic
treatment she was beginning to regain some of her weight, then
it was time for her spay and she seems to be having a reaction
to her internal stitches. While not too uncommon, she's again
not eating well. She was also unusually slow to come out of the
anesthesia.
Audi is a gentle, sweet dog. Despite her past
she is not shy, although she will cower if you move too quickly
or speak harshly to her.
She isn't afraid of thunder or new things. We're working on housebreaking, and she's showing a tendency to chew furniture, but at least she feels well enough to want to chew on something, and I think it's boredom at being closed in the guest room alone.
She gets along well with other dogs. Although
she will chase a cat or a chicken if it runs from her, she will
also share her food bowl with them if they stand their ground.
She will always be a
smallish brindle mastiff, about 27 inches at the shoulder and a
healthy weight would probably be around 130 to 140 pounds.
She's presently in foster care near Charlotte, North Carolina.
If Audi can recover her
health she deserves a special home that will return the HUGE
amount of love she shows to people. The best thing in her world
is to sit in a lap with her head just smashed into your neck.
It's like a mastiff hug and I think she'd stay like that for as
long as you could stand it.
Audi is now gaining weight after her spay surgery and is healing nicely. She's getting a good understanding about housebreaking, and has been successfully introduced to a crate although she prefers to lay on the guest bed!
If you think you might be
the home for Audi, please email
Lynn Bliss
If you are interested in
adopting Audi please fill out the form below and reference AUDI in
NC specifically! Thank you!
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