I think her owners were old and didn't realise how bad it had got.
I am a bit intolerant of people like that. They might not have noticed the hair being matted but surely if your dog stops pooing, you get a vet check and that would identify the problem? And if they weren't noticing the dog not pooing, it calls their suitability as owners into question. Sorry, I think I am just in a ranty mood today!It is horrendous!
A lady was telling me about a dog who had such matted hair around her bum that she couldn't go for a poo properly - it really hurt her
I guess we would be considered elderly at 72 and 78 but we do know he needs grooming. He goes to the groomer every four weeks but is brushed/combed in between.
)...can't drive, can't dog walk, can't even cut the lawns for another 6 weeks....anyway my lovely 93 yo neighbour came round to ask if there was anything he could do to help out? Like take over one of the dogs or do a shop? was how I felt for moaning.
Huh?! - what, the city of Chesapeake doesn't have cruelty laws?Thank you very much. We don't usually feel old but have had a rough year, starting on Jan 2nd with me having emergency open heart surgery, followed by himself having cataract op, followed by operation to save his tendons in his finger when he tried to chop it off (accidently) then next cataract op and for the last two weeks severe sciatica. We had to return from a well needed holiday after two days because of the sciatica and to make it worse I had to drive home with the worlds worst back seat (actually passenger seat) driver.Elderly at 72 and 78? No!!! My OH has been incapacitated this last month having had surgery on his foot (yeah, the thing about rock climbing apparently is not to fall off- who knew?
That is so awful, can't understand why a prosecution was not possible. Poor little thing.
I spent 2 solid hours cutting mats off an intact-M Lhasa-mix, who smelled so bad that the ammonia in his coat made my eyes water... he'd never been groomed in his 2-year-plus life, & i was struggling to remove massive wads of hair without cutting the dog, as U couldn't see what the H*** U were doing, under that felted rug!
I couldn't even use clippers - they overheated & didn't cut. It was scissors for everything, which is dangerous with a scared dog who's unaccustomed to grooming.
I took off more than 8# of solid mats, from his neck, black, & sides, & both forelegs were tied to his ribs, shortening his strides. I still hadn't done his rump, tail, petticoats, or thighs, nor his underside - & of course, he hadn't been bathed, yet.
I phoned the Va Beach ACC, & the officer who came was concerned, but wouldn't press charges - 'cuz the dog's owner lived in Chesapeake.
What cr*p.
I felt badly when Michelle [founder of PACC, a rescue in Va.] came to pick him up, b/c for all my effort, he still wasn't done - but he could walk & see, which was something, at least. I bagged the filthy hair as evidence.
- terry
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