Raven's puppies have opened their eyes. They look like puppies, now, instead of little woodchucks. They are standing up and toddling around on all fours, and attempting to wrestle with each other. The puppies began to cry a lot, and lost a few ounces; it seems Raven couldn't produce enough milk to support them. Foster mom Melanie tried to bottle feed them, but they didn't take the bottle well, so she put the formula down in a shallow pan. They dove in like pigeons on popcorn and lapped it all up. With regular supplementation to mama's milk, they have stopped crying so much and are back to gaining weight.
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It's been a rough couple of weeks for my rescue group. Several fosters "dumped" their foster dogs, which ended up at a boarding kennel since we are so full; a couple of adopters abandoned their dogs at the pound, and they also ended up at the boarding kennel. We had one dog at the kennel, and suddenly we have 10. Dog adoptions have been dismally slow. With no room in foster care, we haven't been able to pull a single dog from the pound. We get calls from the pound saying they have 22 dogs that need to go to rescue by tomorrow, do we have room? Two days later, another call with 8 dogs needing rescue, do we have room? The answer is always no, and it breaks our hearts.
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