Cleveland, OHADOPTED! August 14, 2018
| Arrival Date: | 7/25/18 |
| Breed: | Labrador Retriever |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 2 estimate |
| Weight: | 50# estimate |
| Personality: | Happy Go Lucky |
| Fully Vaccinated: | Yes |
| Microchipped: | Yes |
| Spayed/Neutered: | Yes |
| In foster Home: | Yes |
| Dog Social: | Yes |
| Crate Trained: | Working on it |
| House Trained: | |
| Kid-Friendly: | Yes |
| Cat-Friendly: | |
| Origin: | Rescue Transfer (originally a stray from Alabama) |
| Adoption Fee: | $200 or $300 for the pair |
Wilson and Montgomery (Monty) are rescue transfers from Fido’s Companion. They were originally brought to Ohio on a rescue transport from Alabama to seek out homes. They were picked up together as strays and when they were not claimed they were transferred out to save them from euthanasia (common when there is a lack of space or funding for dogs in county or city shelters). Upon arrival it was discovered Wilson was heartworm positive. He is heartworm positive received his first heartworm treatment at Westpark Animal Hospital on July 20-21 and will have a follow up treatment in one month followed by another month of low-activity rest. We would absolutely love for the brothers to be placed together if someone were open to adopting the pair but they do not need to be placed as they are doing well separated.
We are going The Extra Mile for Wilson. The overall cost to alleviate heartworms in one dog, including hospitalization, medications, x-rays, blood work and office visits office visits most often exceeds $700…for just one dog.
Wilson will be staying in a foster home until mid-August unless a low-activity applicant with a home that is a match for his adoption is found and we can transfer him into a home on a trial basis. He is a very happy go lucky dog who needs to learn his commands. He is eager to work for treats (what Labrador isn’t) and we anticipate he will love the water.
UPDATE: Montgomery has been a pretty popular guy here and he did leave with a family for a trial adopt.
If you are interested in any one of our dogs please fill out our online adoption application.
FOSTER HOME REPORT:
Coming soon!
If you are interested in adopting any one of our dogs please fill out our online adoption application. Applications are responded to with an auto-response message indicating your application has been received. Please check your Spam folder as our mail sometimes does not make it into inboxes due to spam filters. Please add rescue@secondhandmutts.org to your approved senders list. We are a volunteer run operation and applications can take anywhere from 3-7 days to process. Please notify your references when you list them on our application and give your listed veterinarian authorization to release your current or previous animals records to our volunteers. If you have never owned a pet before please research the breed you are interested in adopting to understand the needs of the breed and list the name of the veterinarian you plan to use if you do adopt.
