Christmas foster gone horribly wrong.

[Brittney]

I am fostering over Christmas again. The same dog I fostered during Thanksgiving but this time it is way worse than Thanksgiving. He has become a really bad dog. He won't let me sleep so I have been running on 4 hours total sleep since Tuesday. He pees in the house, and he is biting the men in my family.

Well this morning, my doxie, Bailey, was eating out of his bowl and my foster walked up to him and growled. Instinctively, Bailey growled back. My foster lunged at Bailey and grabbed him around the neck and shook him and then pinned him on the ground. Bailey was screaming and I ran over and pulled him off of Bailey and he was just laying there limp. I just sat there knowing I should do something but I was in shock. Bailey is 15 and is very fragile. I slid a cutting board under him and picked him up so I wouldn't move his back, clipped his wounds and cleaned them with Betadine, bandaged them and I rushed him to the EAC. Luckily, there was nothing going on and they took him straight back. They were able to stabilize him and get him back to being almost normal. He has 4 deep punctures around his neck and they said that I saved them a ton of time by clipping and cleaning. He didn't have any punctures around his jugular or esophagus so we are lucky there, but with the way my foster shook him, he has a slipped disk. He went immediately into surgery after x-rays and they said since we got him in early enough, he shouldn't have any paralysis in his back legs. He gets to come home on the 28th.

My foster is going back tomorrow, but we are keeping him in a different room to keep him away from Nola.

What a great Christmas :cry3: But I am very thankful my little boy pulled through alright.

Keep your fingers crossed that he regains mobility and that the surgery was a success!

 

[eroomlorac]

Holy cow!!! How terrible. Can you get some help with the vet bills since you were fostering the dog for some organization? Poor Bailey. I hope he pulls through okay. That's a lot for a 15 year old dog to go through. How traumatic for everyone involved. I'm so sorry. I would question the adoptability of that foster dog.

 

[tunes]

What happened between last time and this time with this dog? Last time you wer eexcited to have him and it was a fun stay. For him to so drastically change his behavior, there must have been something really wrong going on.

I'm sorry about your doxie. What a horrible thing, especially at his age, and with doxie's back issues. I hope he's able to thrive after the surgery.

 

[starleomach]

I am so sorry how scary! poor thing...both dogs.. I do wonder what happened to the foster dog to make him this

 

[Brittney]

What happened between last time and this time with this dog?QUOTE]

We aren't sure. He was supposed to be in a home over Christmas because he had been adopted. The people who adopted him brought him back shortly after and said that they couldn't handle him.

We don't even know what his deal was this time. We are guessing he was finally comfortable with the house since he had been here before and he now started to establish dominance and let his real self shine through.

The organization said they would cover all vet bills so we are good on that note, but they said they would seriously look into his behavior issues.

 

[mishellyshel]

how scary. i hope bailey makes a full recovery.

 

[saphire]

Something must of happened somewhere in between stays. Did the home that adopted him have another dog?

hmmm! pretty sad for all.

 

[Brittney]

No, they didn't have another dog. It was just the wife, husband and 3 kids. He does have a male aggressing/fear problem though.

 

[Riven]

Sounds like that dog needs PTS. There are plenty of other non-aggressive dogs needing homes and fosters! What a terrible ordeal! Poor little Doxie boy! How is he doing?

 

[Brittney]

He's doing very well. He goes back to the vet Saturday for an x-ray and to start some hydrotherapy if his sutures are closing properly. He has been in a small crate but seems to be able to move his hind legs. Looks like we rushed him and got surgery at the right time. He whines a lot more because he is simply bored and not sure what's going on and why he's being "punished" but he seems to be fairing pretty well.

The rescue did a behavior test on the dog, and he is highly male fearful aggressive, food aggressive and possessive over belongings. They said they would work with him, but being a dog that has been in the shelter/kennel environment since he was a puppy, there is only so much they can do unless there is an appropriate foster or adopter willing to work with him.

I still plan on fostering, just not that dog.

 

[shubbles]

If the rescue doesn't pay for the costs i would be surprised. Im not sure if you sign something like a waiver, but i know from people i know who have fostered, they payed for all the expenses it took to get the dog back into a healthy state.