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And this time, it’s closer to us. Strays allegedly caught and shot in full view of children And more denial in the newspaper today: Chow: MPPP dog shooters use UK-imported humane stunner Are they indicating that those witnesses just made up their stories?
They eat side by side, play as a team, and sleep close to each other. On the side note, there was a wound on the right ear of Scooby the dog since the day we started bathing him. I’m not sure where he got it. We initially thought it’d heal on its own but it didn’t. When we were there bathing him 2 weeks ago he was rather disturbed by the wound. So last week, I decided to rinse it with warm sea salt water. Today when we went back for his bathing session, we saw that it’s starting to heal!
About a month ago when I decided to give Scooby, the stray dog who has been hanging around at my grandma’s place for years a good bath, groomer Jasmin came into rescue. After his first bath and injection, the task came to us – which means me and Wah, to continue bathing him to help his skin condition. At that time he was loosing fur all over his body. Jasmin told me that it was mange. Slightly over a month later, as you can see, he has got new fur growing on his back! He has also grown into very manja, whining for attention every time he sees anyone of us. I’ve also included some higher quality dog food into his diet, hopefully will help him to recover faster. Speaking of which, this fella eats a lot. Like, A LOT. Slightly over two weeks ago my grandma’s housekeeper told my mum about a regular stray dog (we named him Scooby) who was either hit by a car or bullied by some other dogs and was quite ill. I’ve tried to ask for help around thinking I’d take him to the vet but he somehow recovered by himself. But I’ve decided to get him a good bath. He is an old dog, and has been hanging around at my grandma’s place for many years. Thanks to a friend at Penang Animal Sanctuary Society, I was introduced to a lady, Jasmine, who happened to be a groomer, who happened to be very kind and help strays. I will go ahead and admit that I do not know how to handle strays and really, I haven’t been able to convince myself to handle the ‘dirty’ job, so she really came into rescue. So after some arrangements on the phone, we’ve finally settled to pay Scooby a visit today. Being a crazy dog who is still chasing after bikes and barking at strangers despite his old age, Scooby definitely liked Jasmine. He wagged his tail when she called him, and walked towards her with no problem at all – and I was actually worrying that he might just start barking at her or something, which totally didn’t happen. She talked to him, looked at his condition, and started bathing him. Uhuh! With his history of being a water-hating dog, you can actually see the joy on his face! And Jasmine was handling him so professionally that I think it was like a massage for him.
The whole session took about 30-40 minutes. Jasmine also gave Scooby some de-worm pills. And then left my part, which is to BATH HIM EVERYDAY or AT LEAST ONCE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY for one week, and then ONCE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY for another week, and then ONCE EVERY WEEK. Seriously, I’m not too sure if I can do it. But I’m convincing myself to do it. Once every alternate day might be better for me since I don’t think I’ll have the time to travel over on a daily basis. But seeing how Jasmine did it was inspiring – she made it look really easy. We’ll see…
(Click the above appeal poster to reach Malaysia Central for more info.) Blogging wasn’t actually in my hectic schedule today. But I received an email from SPCA, with a link, and thanks to my curiosity, I’ve found this. I couldn’t bear looking at other photos but by reading what was written there, I was totally speechless. I don’t want to visit the place. Never. I don’t want to visit a place with inhuman citizens. Admittedly this was my first thought. As I read on (no photos, I can’t look at photos like this), I started to understand that to help the other unfortunate creatures, it’s best to win the hearts of the ones who created this. I started to understand that this is true. New lesson learnt. I’m not too sure of how I’d be helping in this case, yet. It’s a hectic day for me but I’m definitely writing to them to see how I can help. Donation, yes, definitely. I might have some unwanted cages around that I can ship down for them too. I’ll try something later today. Just before I end, please, just be a little humane, and more civilised. |
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