So, Mike's best friend, who lives in Phoenix, has a dog. Correction, HE doesn't have a dog, his mother has a dog, which she has essentially dumped on him for the past two years. At this point, she won't even let the dog in her house, because she doesn't want to take care of it, and because the dog has medical problems that are communicable to humans and she's afraid she will get sick. She did previously take the dog over to her house when she felt like it, where the dog was spoiled rotten and massively overfed. Then she would dump her again with her son.
The dog is a 2-3 year old border collie mix. I have never met her, so I am relaying this. She is very high energy, or was, however, Mike's friend's mother figures that fat dogs are lazy dogs, and she is now obese. She is dog aggressive. She has nipped at, but never actually bitten, humans. Mike's friend is the only one who can control her in the family, though he people at Petsmart report that they don't have trouble with her. She has chronic giardia, and now has valley fever (a fungus), which has spread from her lungs to her joints and will need constant medication. In other words we have a relatively young, chronically ill, poorly behaved (at least with some people) herding breed who is also, apparently, deeply neurotic.
Mike's friend is sick of taking care of his mother's dog, who he did not want, protested against getting, and doesn't even like very much. He doesn't want any harm to come to the dog, but he is afraid that if he tells his mother that he will not care for the dog any longer, she will have the dog put down or ditch her at a shelter where she will likely be killed as unadoptable.
So, the question I have been asked to ask is whether anyone knows a rescue or a no-kill shelter in the area that will take this poor creature and place her with a family that both wants her and can handle her? I know that many such organizations won't take animals from private citizens, but I'm hoping there is someone out there that will do so. I don't think this is actually a bad dog, but she was very poorly raised (essentially just kept in a yard with a bunch of unfixed dogs), dumped at the city pound, and the adopted by a crazy woman and deposited with her son who didn't want a dog. And she is a very poor breed type for a family that is, um, not athletic.
The dog is a 2-3 year old border collie mix. I have never met her, so I am relaying this. She is very high energy, or was, however, Mike's friend's mother figures that fat dogs are lazy dogs, and she is now obese. She is dog aggressive. She has nipped at, but never actually bitten, humans. Mike's friend is the only one who can control her in the family, though he people at Petsmart report that they don't have trouble with her. She has chronic giardia, and now has valley fever (a fungus), which has spread from her lungs to her joints and will need constant medication. In other words we have a relatively young, chronically ill, poorly behaved (at least with some people) herding breed who is also, apparently, deeply neurotic.
Mike's friend is sick of taking care of his mother's dog, who he did not want, protested against getting, and doesn't even like very much. He doesn't want any harm to come to the dog, but he is afraid that if he tells his mother that he will not care for the dog any longer, she will have the dog put down or ditch her at a shelter where she will likely be killed as unadoptable.
So, the question I have been asked to ask is whether anyone knows a rescue or a no-kill shelter in the area that will take this poor creature and place her with a family that both wants her and can handle her? I know that many such organizations won't take animals from private citizens, but I'm hoping there is someone out there that will do so. I don't think this is actually a bad dog, but she was very poorly raised (essentially just kept in a yard with a bunch of unfixed dogs), dumped at the city pound, and the adopted by a crazy woman and deposited with her son who didn't want a dog. And she is a very poor breed type for a family that is, um, not athletic.
With some luck, perhaps she'll pick one that is robust enough to handle her neglect.
