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Thoughts regarding this stray dog (northeast Dallas)


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I'll just give you the narrative.  The help I need is I just want to make sure this female dog isn't euthanized.  She showed up at a neighbor friends house looking very thin, but not emaciated.  Husky mix?  Teeth look pretty good, nails look relatively recently trimmed.  She is staying with neighbors, who say she howls briefly once or twice a night.  I'm taking the dog for walks in the am and pm -- she's a great walker and will sit when you stop and heel.  

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Showed up Friday, no collar.  Took her to vet, no chip.  Eating well, pooping well.  She didn't want to get into the kiddy pool for a bath but she let me hand wash her with a bit of Dawn liquid without snapping -- just kind of pulled away and not happy about being wet.  Not really houosebroken but I don't think neighbors pushing the issue -- she seems like an indoor dog who just hasn't figured out the rules of their home.

Nobody responding on next door or facebook or to telephone poll poster.  Sent an "application" to Operation Kindness in Carrollton (where we got our little pooch) - not sure if they will take her.

Plan is to see if a vet will check her out on Monday, and then neighbors will probably surrender her to shelter. 

Questions: 

Anyone know if most vets will be willing to give a stray a once over assuming we agree to pay? (If we can make sure she is healthy we might give ourselves on last chance to spruce her up and try to see if a friend or neighbor will want to take a chance on her).

Anyone know of any particular no kill groups in the area what will take her where she will have a great chance for adoption?

(Dallas Animal Shelter looks like it has a "release" rate of 80% which I read as a euthanasia rate of 20%)

 

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Definitely has some husky. Be warned...wherever she is being kept, make sure the yard is escape-proof. Huskies are bad about wanting to get out and roam. It's in their blood, and likely why she was found wandering. 

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30 minutes ago, Deej said:

Definitely has some husky. Be warned...wherever she is being kept, make sure the yard is escape-proof. Huskies are bad about wanting to get out and roam. It's in their blood, and likely why she was found wandering. 

Could be a mudder. 

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On 7/9/2023 at 10:48 AM, Deej said:

Definitely has some husky. Be warned...wherever she is being kept, make sure the yard is escape-proof. Huskies are bad about wanting to get out and roam. It's in their blood, and likely why she was found wandering. 

This is how my brother got a full-blooded husky. It was a pup out wandering around in the road and on his land. He took it in and Ghost has been great, but he does love to escape. 

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