Another collie

**hadassahchana**[$] · #1 03-11-2006, 06:41 PM

I have been weepy since yesterday. I went to visit a friend in Michigan. I've been to her house before, but only for dinner in the evening. Yesterday I saw tht her next-door neighbour has a collie. A really old one, with arthritis. He has infections in both eyes, is deaf and can hardly move.

She keeps him outside, doesn't have much to do with him, and his backyard is nothing but mud - not quite the place for a seniour dog with arthritis. I petted him for a long time, and he just grinned and stood close to me. When I left, he stood at his gate and just gave me this look.

I asked the friend I was visitng if he goes to the vet or sleeps inside, and she didn't think so. The owner only kept him after a divorce because her ex wanted the dog. However, apparently she isn't willing to give him up.

I would do anything to get this darling boy into a nice loving home for his last years. I would pay her for letting me take him. I feel so sorry for him, and he is such a sweetie.

**theworm**[$] · #2 03-12-2006, 12:24 PM

all the responses went away.

Did you offer to buy him? Maybe she would sell him?

**hadassahchana**[$] · #3 03-12-2006, 12:37 PM

I've written to the collie rescue where we got Libs. Im hoping that they'll ask her as an organization. I'm willing to take him and would even pay her through them, so I am hoping like anything. Poor little man.

**theworm**[$] · #4 03-12-2006, 12:40 PM

I hope they can get him. Are you SURE you can manage a third dog? One that may need a lot of medical attention. I think if the rescue group can find him a good home, that you should feel great about saving him. Of course if you do take him, I could send you a donation for collie chow (though you probably get up early to scramble them eggs and make them miso soup)

phoenixx · #5 03-12-2006, 12:45 PM

Awwwwwww. How sad. I hope you get him out of there, whether he goes to your "zoo" or someone else's home

mtbat · #6 03-12-2006, 02:00 PM

my response went away, but if you can't get her to give the dog to you, or her to surrender the dog to the collie rescue you need to call animal control-she's mistreating/neglecting the dog and doesn't deserve to have him

or just go take him(well maybe not but I'd like to

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**hadassahchana**[$] · #7 03-12-2006, 04:41 PM

Fridai, you have no idea how many people on my collie list said exactly the same thing - and one woman is a lawyer!

And Delia, I don't make them miso soup in the morning- that's when they get yogurt and sardines.

**theworm**[$] · #8 03-12-2006, 05:08 PM

I'm glad I'm not a collie

mtbat · #9 03-12-2006, 08:55 PM

if animal control gets called in, typically when they have a full bred, they contact the rescue groups associated with that type of dog.

I would-call animal control and explain that this dog will be taken care of if it's taken away from it's owners. Then videotape what's going on so there is no doubt of the neglect.

or get all the collie lovers to picket her house, call the news crews and embarass the everloving heck out of her.E