June 2008 – Page 7 – dobermannpinscher.org

Harley and Bella – Rescue

HARLEY AND BELLA
A BEAUTIFUL DOBERCOUPLE

Harley and Bella’s owner wrote the following:

“Harley is a 6-year old red docked and cropped male. He is a typical Velcro doberman and LOVES human interaction with adults and older children. He is still unsure of the little ones. He has lived with Bella for the last 5 years (all of Bellas life) and been GREAT with her, even as a puppy, but does not have much tolerance for other dogs challenging him or getting in his face. Harley does not enjoy the company of cats but he loves to chase a ball, run, and go for car rides. He’s a really smart boy and has completed his Canine Good Citizen certification and, before it expired, has his TDI also. (Therapy Dog Certification)

Bella is a 5-year old red docked female with natural ears. She is a real sweetheart and LOVES to give kisses! She is great with people and other dogs. She has not had exposure to cats. Bella has been AMAZING with little ones and will allow any and all pokes and prods and keep coming back for more! I’m convinced she believes she is a lap dog and will back up and sit right between the legs of whoever is sitting on the couch for some love! She loves her Harley and it would be a shame to break this pair up!”

Both of the dogs were fixed before they were a year old, are microchipped, tattooed, up-to-date on all vaccines, and are on heartworm and flea and tick prevention.

If interested, please send application, which you can find a link to by clicking here, in an e-mail to dobermannrescue@earthlink.net.

Thanks!
Helen

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Grom and Curly – Rescue

Helen

GROM & CURLY

Grom and Curly have been together all their lives, and now, due to a divorce, they are homeless. Grom, the male, is 7 years old, and Curly, the female, is 5. Grom is cropped and docked and Curly is all natural. That means she has a beautiful tail and natural ears. They are heartworm negative, will be spayed and neutered in the coming days. A recent veterinarian exam said they were in good health. They are friendly, good with older children and dogs, and are housebroken. We’d prefer to place them together.

They are currently located closer to the North Pole than the South in Florida. They are an S.O.S. couple, which means we are looking for a good home fast and as soon as possible.

Please send your completed application, which you can get from our dobermannpinscher.org rescue site, when you write to us regarding Grom and Curly at dobermannrescue@earthlink.net.

The “Wild” Cockatiel of Fort Doberdale

Helen

Well, another cockatiel is loose in the trees of Fort Doberdale. I heard him first thing yesterday evening when I got home from work. I stuck my finger out and whistled, but he was having too much fun singing in the tree to come down. This morning, I heard him again, and saw that he moved over one tree, and was still singing away. The blue jay nearby was having issues with him and trying to peck him out of that tree, but he stood his ground. I think the jay has a nest in the tree the tiel previously laid claim to. I hear a lot of peeping baby birds up there.

I just pulled a cage that a friend gave me to catch a cocatiel last year off a table and stuck it on a chair in front of a plant I’m trying to protect from the Fort Doberdale peesers. You know the table it came from? It now has a nifty new trinket named Sam on it.

Well, this morning, I put the cage back on another table, and aimed its opening right at the tree the tiel was now in. Being I had just recently fed the Fort Doberdale doves the food donated to catch last year’s tiel, I now have to find some new bird food to put in that cage, which has been basically inhabited by lizards all these months.

Oh well. I don’t have any luck with catching these cockatiels, and maybe if I do catch him I’ll have no place to send him? Huh? Where will he go? Huh? I think birds belong flying in the sky anyway. My concern with pet birds, though, is they aren’t savvy as to surviving in the wilds. Geesh. And boy, is he noisy! People think the local parrots are loud. Uh uh. This tiel just sings and sings and it’s just nonstop loud bird singing times around here. Yes, it is.

Newspaper Route to the SPCA Wildlife Care Center in Fort Lauderdale

Helen

Every Friday, I collect newspapers in the highrise I work in. I pick up the papers from seven floors, pack them up, roll them down to the back of my truck, and during my lunch break, I take them to our local Wildlife Center. I’ve been doing this for nearly seven years. Hmmm…seven is lucky, isn’t it?

Last Friday, I found the welcome wagon, for the first time, strolling across the driveway entrance. I didn’t catch his name, but he is a handsome iguana, indeed!

These folks at the SPCA Wildlife Care Center are unrelenting in helping wildlife and small animal pets such as gerbils, birds, rabbits, reptiles anything not dog or cat. Here we have an employee hauling a bird cage from the bird building to the hospital building. I’ve brought many injured doves and pigeons to the Wildlife Center over the years.

This is what the entrance looks like from the slender parking lot inside, and just to the left behind that gate is where I drop off the boxes and bundles of newspapers I put together every Friday. It’s a collaborative effort. If not for the folks in the building saving the papers, I wouldn’t have them to take to the center. And thank goodness for the Wildlife Center, who helps the locals with injured wildlife, and just like the reason Dobermann rescue is in “business,” there are people who get small pets and decide they no longer want them. The Wildlife Center takes them in to rehome, too. Click to visit their website: SPCA Wildlife Care Center

Gardening at Fort Doberdale

Helen

I saw this lovely succulent masterpiece at a local Home Depot over the weekend, and tried to resist, but could not. First, I tried to resist getting a sales person to tell me how much it cost because there was no price on it. She said it was $14.99. I had in mind it was five dollars more. Even so, it took some convincing in my own mind to put out that money on a trinket. OK, a beautiful living trinket, but it wasn’t something we needed during these inflationary times. I tried to resist putting it in the cart, but could not. Being it was the only one, I figured I would push it around while I shopped for what we did need and eventually I would lose interest in the trinket. That did not work. Three people made comments on how cute and adorable it was, and by the way, where abouts did you find it? “I’ve got the last one, it’s in my cart and going home with me.” I did not lose interest, and now I know why dogs covet one ball, even though there are similar ones in a toy box.

The trinket’s name is Sam. Sam does brighten up the yard, though. I am sure to look at him a lot, and pray I can take good care of Sam the Succulent. Those succulents that are planted with glued stone are not my forte. But! Sam’s worth a one-of-a-kind try!

Here are some lovely bloomers in my garden. The Hibiscus and Frangipanni.

And here is a sweet potato plant, chamomile and corn stalk, and more corn with some squash.

Finally, the neighbors around me have some really nice mango trees. I have 2 or 3 in pots. I haven’t planted them yet due to I am not sure I can do the maintenance on them. <sigh> There is a lot of work to the great outdoors.