Tuesday Telling

 Say HI to Spark - they were finally able to read his bracelet info - and found out he's from Cleveland!

 The Doggy Nanny helped me get these fur Mom

Auntie Di, Khousin Ab, Mom, and I got this fur The Doggy Nanny - we'll share another pikh once we find the perfekht spot fur it! 

 Mom made dinner fur The Doggy Nanny and Fred - I khounted three plates - wonder why there weren't FoUR of them?  Mom tried her best to be artistikh with her presentation of the skhallops, wild mushroom risotto, and Brussels Sprouts - she took pikhs of all three plates but I'll spare woo!  I was rewarded with some of the Brussels Sprouts - raw and khooked!

 My Monday khonsisted of LOTS of this

Bekhause we had lots of this - it started by 730 or so Monday morning - bummer!

Speaking of bummers, I'm going to let Mom take ovFUR now - there are some Siberians in The Cheese State that need our help - 

Thanks Khyra for letting me take control of the post - and for the furry nice AGJ glasses!  

I had read about the Wisconsin Siberians before hitting the road for Hagerstown - and whilst on the road, our Golden Retriever pals Sophie and Hamish had their hu-dad write me about it - I was already planning to include something about it HERE today - 

Here is an email received on SiberNet from Mary Beth  with Adopt A Husky in the Chicago area 

Hi folks,

As you heard, there was a large impound of 68 purebred Siberian Huskies in

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.  Howl N Wind Siberians was raided and the owner, Don

Smidt, (along with Denise Cwiok who was not on site) surrendered the

Siberians.  You can read details here:

http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012305120053

I am sure that as they continue their investigation more details will come

out, but for now, we just have to have patience that the authorities are

doing their job in gathering evidence.

The dogs are all doing well under the absolutely expert care of the Fond du

Lac shelter.  I have been involved in many impounds and I can honestly say I

have never seen a group respond so fast, so well and so thoroughly as the

FDL shelter has done.  Yes, they are overrun with Siberians but they are

making it work (with long hours from every worker and volunteer) and the

dog's medical needs are all being met with a speed I am astounded by.  When

we were there, every dog had been evaluated already by a vet, inventoried,

given rabies vaccinations, and HW/Lymes tested.  Grooming was next and due

to many volunteers, they were getting through them pretty well.  This

shelter, and the manager in particular, are very knowledgeable about the

breed and understand that shaving a Siberian should never ever be done.

They are trying their best to get the embedded feces and urine out of the

coats through grooming but I can say that some will have to be at least

partially shaved.  There is no way around it.  They know it is not best but

some of these dogs are in such atrocious conditions that there is no other

option.  After they are groomed, every one will be altered and vaccinations

completed.  Think about the scope of this-how can you do all of this for 68

dogs???  But they are.  And doing it well.  I am just beyond impressed with

this shelter.

Wisconsin is pretty amazing in that the shelters work together to move dogs

and help each other out whenever possible.  When we got there Sunday,

several dogs were already earmarked to move to other shelters.  Once these

dogs are fully vetted, I imagine many will be moved throughout the system.

Adopt a Husky took 7 Sunday, 5 of which are at the vet as I type getting

altered.  We will go back up Wednesday to get 7 more and get them vetted.

That is the plan for the next week or so-get a batch, get them vetted (and

thus ease the burden on the shelter to have them vetted) and moved to our

AMAZING volunteers who are opening their homes in vast numbers to take in a

foster that they normally would not have.  The dog, while underweight and

malnourished, seem to be very sweet and friendly.  A couple shy ones, but

most are wiggly and outgoing which should make placement easier.

So, how can you help?  Obviously the shelter needs money.  It is a huge

burden to get these dogs healthy and then even more money to keep them that

way.  If you can donate, please do so directly to the shelter here:

http://www.fdlhumane.org/make-donation.iml

The shelter should have dogs available for public adoption perhaps by the

weekend or early next week if anyone is local and wants to add to their

pack.  If you are in the Chicago/Milwaukee area and want to adopt, feel free

to fill out an application with us at www.adoptahusky.com   We'll have the

first batch of dogs available this weekend as well.  Or even better, if you

are in the area, please come out to our Husky Hike this Saturday and meet

all these dogs in person.  We will have all our fosters out at the Hike and

available to meet the public.

Thanks for all your support!

Mary Beth on behalf of Adopt a Husky Inc

www.adoptahusky.com

Please share this as you can - and if you have even a few spare green paper$, please consider sending them in support of this furry challenging effort

IN FACT,  WEDNESDAY'S POST WILL BE THE 1600th FROM KHYRA'S KHORNER - WE'LL MAKE A DONATION FOR EACH COMMENT FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY TO THE FOND DU LAC FURRIES TO CELEBRATE!!!

I know the post got a bit lengthy - thanks for reading!

Happy Tuesday EvFURRYone!

Hugz&Khysses From Khyra's Khorner