Quick update on our pack. Our friend Amanda went out to the pack today around 18.00 tonight, and they were out on their nightly walk I guess, because Amanda could not see them. Amanda filled the water bowl and left some food for them. I am crossing my fingers and hoping that all of them make it through the night without any more injuries.
-Maud Kristine-
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Friday, 8 October 2010
The metro-pack; 8.Okt, day 6
Today was a mess! As you might remember, my battery on my camera went dead yesterday, so of course I charged it, but when I arrived at the metro-pack site and wanted to take a photo of the dogs laying in the sun relaxing, the camera said "no SD card inserted"! I forgot it in my computer.. So no photos today, but otherwise the day went on as planned.
For a minute I thought they were all sick and/or poisoned, because they did not react to my whistling or the fact that I was approching them. But when I reached the waterbowl and filled it with 4 liters of fresh water they started to get up on their feet and walk towards me. Everyone exept for the old male of course, but even he does not walk away from me anymore, he just does not seem interested in me at all.
The older female behaved even wierder and more anxious than yesterday, at least for the first 5 minutes. She walked around barking at me and then to the same direction as yesterday.
The young female is more trusting than ever, she lets me stroke her chin and behind her ear while feeding her with the other hand, so it is of course not eniterly her idea of a good time, but she lets me, and I take that as a sign of trust.
The younger male made a huge leap of trust today by eating from my hand, and he kept close to me the entire time, instead of being 2-3 meters away observing.
After the first 5 minutes the old female came close to me and seemed to be more relaxed and ate from my hand, she has not done this in a couple of days, so this is good news! Her teeth looks like they are in a bad condition, and I am wondering if her sight/hearing is getting worse, and that might be the reason for (what appears to me to be) random barking out into nothing.
I did not go to see the puppy today either, but I could see from where I was sitting that he was moving around in his little burrow, fat as usual.
The dogs health seems alright, to be stray dogs. The young female and what is most likely her father is still limping. All the dogs have huge ticks on them all over, and they are so big now that they are starting to fall of them. We are really looking forward to getting them to the veterinarian and check them for pretty much everything.
The next update will hopfully be with photos :)
-Maud Kristine-
For a minute I thought they were all sick and/or poisoned, because they did not react to my whistling or the fact that I was approching them. But when I reached the waterbowl and filled it with 4 liters of fresh water they started to get up on their feet and walk towards me. Everyone exept for the old male of course, but even he does not walk away from me anymore, he just does not seem interested in me at all.
The older female behaved even wierder and more anxious than yesterday, at least for the first 5 minutes. She walked around barking at me and then to the same direction as yesterday.
The young female is more trusting than ever, she lets me stroke her chin and behind her ear while feeding her with the other hand, so it is of course not eniterly her idea of a good time, but she lets me, and I take that as a sign of trust.
The younger male made a huge leap of trust today by eating from my hand, and he kept close to me the entire time, instead of being 2-3 meters away observing.
After the first 5 minutes the old female came close to me and seemed to be more relaxed and ate from my hand, she has not done this in a couple of days, so this is good news! Her teeth looks like they are in a bad condition, and I am wondering if her sight/hearing is getting worse, and that might be the reason for (what appears to me to be) random barking out into nothing.
I did not go to see the puppy today either, but I could see from where I was sitting that he was moving around in his little burrow, fat as usual.
The dogs health seems alright, to be stray dogs. The young female and what is most likely her father is still limping. All the dogs have huge ticks on them all over, and they are so big now that they are starting to fall of them. We are really looking forward to getting them to the veterinarian and check them for pretty much everything.
The next update will hopfully be with photos :)
-Maud Kristine-
Thursday, 7 October 2010
The metro-pack; 7.Okt, day 5
Today I was pleased with the sight that met me, all of them where laying in the shade. I was nervous that something had happened to them last night when they where gone. So my heart jumped a little when they were all there :)
It is pretty hot outside today, so they had dug themselves a "shelf" to lie on in the sand.
I do not know what the dogs where up to last night after dark, but something has happened, because the young female is limping on her right front leg, but still as trusting as usual. The mother of the pack was not behaving as usual, she was barking at something/someone in the distance every once in a while, and seemed agitated by something. But I sat down and read a magazine ("time out", They have written about having dogs in Hungary and Budadogs is the first organization he mentiones when talking about ways to get/help a dog :) ), and the mother calmed down with the rest of them after a while.
I kept my distance to the puppy today, I did not want to agitate the mother any more than necessary. Here are the last two pictures of the day before my battery went dead, to my great frustration!
-Maud Kristine-
It is pretty hot outside today, so they had dug themselves a "shelf" to lie on in the sand.
I do not know what the dogs where up to last night after dark, but something has happened, because the young female is limping on her right front leg, but still as trusting as usual. The mother of the pack was not behaving as usual, she was barking at something/someone in the distance every once in a while, and seemed agitated by something. But I sat down and read a magazine ("time out", They have written about having dogs in Hungary and Budadogs is the first organization he mentiones when talking about ways to get/help a dog :) ), and the mother calmed down with the rest of them after a while.
I kept my distance to the puppy today, I did not want to agitate the mother any more than necessary. Here are the last two pictures of the day before my battery went dead, to my great frustration!
-Maud Kristine-
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
The metro-pack; 6.Okt, day 4
A little update:
None of us went out to the pack yesterday due to the pouring rain, but tonight around 7 o`clock I arrived at the site where the pack lives. It was dark, and I could not see any dogs, but the first thing I saw was that the bowl we have left there was filled with water and moved on top of some plastic, which only humans can do :) I filled it with fresh water and left food for them.
I whistled, but the dogs where out wandering I guess, so I went to take a look at the puppy, and outside the burrow I saw more suprises, some kind soul has given them food.
And also laid a jacket out for them.
The puppy was in good shape, growling and barking as usual ;)
I am thinking of putting out a note for the people feeding them. Maybe they know how long they have lived there.
-Maud Kristine-
None of us went out to the pack yesterday due to the pouring rain, but tonight around 7 o`clock I arrived at the site where the pack lives. It was dark, and I could not see any dogs, but the first thing I saw was that the bowl we have left there was filled with water and moved on top of some plastic, which only humans can do :) I filled it with fresh water and left food for them.
I whistled, but the dogs where out wandering I guess, so I went to take a look at the puppy, and outside the burrow I saw more suprises, some kind soul has given them food.
And also laid a jacket out for them.
The puppy was in good shape, growling and barking as usual ;)
I am thinking of putting out a note for the people feeding them. Maybe they know how long they have lived there.
-Maud Kristine-
Monday, 4 October 2010
The metro-pack; 4.Okt, day 2
I arrived alone with food and water to the pack around 12 o`clock this morning and the two females came trotting towards me, and the young male was more trusting today than yesterday, and ate some food that was just a meter behind my back. He is the one in the picture below.
The mother of the puppy and the two black young ones seems to be some sort of terrier/german shepard mix and is very beautiful. In this picture she is very close to me, no further than a meter.
These photos are taken outside the burrow where the puppy lives, They follow me everywhere, and the mother is looking closely when I approch the puppy with some food (eventhough the puppy is in no need of any more food, I want the pup to have some human contact).
She is pretty relaxed, laying close to me looking around yawning.
The gorgeous young female below is very curious of this wierd human walking around with food on her hands.
I got the puppy, which I believe to be a female, to lick my hand. But she is very scared of my smell and has most probably never had any human contact.
She eats from my hand, but never let her eyes of mine. She is extremely careful and sweet.
I was there for about 3 hours, and a friend of mine, Ingelin, came after a while, and they accepted her as well.
When I was leaving, the young female followed me, and sat down in a place where she could keep an eye on me.
The mother went to feed her pup when I left.
I got a much closer look at the male today, and he is much older than we thought, because yesterday we wondered if he was the same age as the other two younger ones, but as you see he is an elderly man. We are very interested in checking his leg, and hopefully it is not to bad.
The two siblings, probably around 1-2 years old.
-Maud Kristine-
The mother of the puppy and the two black young ones seems to be some sort of terrier/german shepard mix and is very beautiful. In this picture she is very close to me, no further than a meter.
These photos are taken outside the burrow where the puppy lives, They follow me everywhere, and the mother is looking closely when I approch the puppy with some food (eventhough the puppy is in no need of any more food, I want the pup to have some human contact).
She is pretty relaxed, laying close to me looking around yawning.
The gorgeous young female below is very curious of this wierd human walking around with food on her hands.
I got the puppy, which I believe to be a female, to lick my hand. But she is very scared of my smell and has most probably never had any human contact.
She eats from my hand, but never let her eyes of mine. She is extremely careful and sweet.
I was there for about 3 hours, and a friend of mine, Ingelin, came after a while, and they accepted her as well.
When I was leaving, the young female followed me, and sat down in a place where she could keep an eye on me.
The mother went to feed her pup when I left.
I got a much closer look at the male today, and he is much older than we thought, because yesterday we wondered if he was the same age as the other two younger ones, but as you see he is an elderly man. We are very interested in checking his leg, and hopefully it is not to bad.
The two siblings, probably around 1-2 years old.
-Maud Kristine-
The metro-pack; 3.Okt, day 1
We got an e-mail about a pack of dogs close to a metro stop, so Claire and I went out to check them out and to meet the people who sent us the e-mail. It was almost hard to spot them at a distance, and to see how many dogs there where.
When we got closer 3 of them got very interested and started moving towards the sound of dry food in a bowl we brought with us.
We approched them carefully, with our back to them most of the time, to show them some respect and to not seem too scary.
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The fourth dog was limping and kept his distance, but as you can see in this photo, the two females are very curious, while the young boy(most likely brother to the black young female) keeps a safe distance.
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The young female(black) eats from my hand after about 10-15 min of patience.
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While me and Claire are walking around checking the area, the young boy sees the opportunity to check our pretty pink (Anouska`s) veterinary bag. ;)
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this piece of land they are living in is between 2 higly trafficated roads.
Claire with the two females, trying to gain their trust.
She ran away with a tin of wet food ;) retriever?
When we walked around the place we saw that the dogs had dug burrows in the sand and we went to check it out.
And look what we found!
A young puppy barking and growling from fear in the little burrow. It seemed fat, happy and about 6-7 weeks old. We left it to iself, since we were planning to return anyway. The mother is the black and tan-ish female.
After talking about what we saw, we have decided that we cant leave them there un-kastrated, the older dogs wont survive the winter, and we do not want to separate a pack. So our plan is to return every day with food and patience to gain their trust. We will take the puppy to a fosterhome (he is old enough by then) and thake the rest to our Doghotel so they can be a pack, but in controlled circumstances and we have the chance to socialize them when they have settled down. And after a while (difficult to say how long) when they are ready, we will take them into fosterhomes. First thing to do when we catch them is ofcourse a trip to the vet!
-Maud Kristine-
When we got closer 3 of them got very interested and started moving towards the sound of dry food in a bowl we brought with us.
We approched them carefully, with our back to them most of the time, to show them some respect and to not seem too scary.
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The fourth dog was limping and kept his distance, but as you can see in this photo, the two females are very curious, while the young boy(most likely brother to the black young female) keeps a safe distance.
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The young female(black) eats from my hand after about 10-15 min of patience.
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While me and Claire are walking around checking the area, the young boy sees the opportunity to check our pretty pink (Anouska`s) veterinary bag. ;)
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this piece of land they are living in is between 2 higly trafficated roads.
Claire with the two females, trying to gain their trust.
She ran away with a tin of wet food ;) retriever?
When we walked around the place we saw that the dogs had dug burrows in the sand and we went to check it out.
And look what we found!
A young puppy barking and growling from fear in the little burrow. It seemed fat, happy and about 6-7 weeks old. We left it to iself, since we were planning to return anyway. The mother is the black and tan-ish female.
After talking about what we saw, we have decided that we cant leave them there un-kastrated, the older dogs wont survive the winter, and we do not want to separate a pack. So our plan is to return every day with food and patience to gain their trust. We will take the puppy to a fosterhome (he is old enough by then) and thake the rest to our Doghotel so they can be a pack, but in controlled circumstances and we have the chance to socialize them when they have settled down. And after a while (difficult to say how long) when they are ready, we will take them into fosterhomes. First thing to do when we catch them is ofcourse a trip to the vet!
-Maud Kristine-
Trolls success
Troll and his owner Josefine participated in their first obedience competition saturday 18th of September. The result was a 4th place and there were 16 competitors, they got 178 points and promoted to class 2 in their first try :) The jugde gave them a 10 for general apperance.
One week later they competed again in LP1, with the same result, but this time they were 4th out of over 20 competitors. So now they are working to compete in LP2
This weekend Troll and Josefine went to a rottweiler meeting and for the second time in Troll`s career he has tried tracking and something called "rundering" in Norwegian, its when the dog finds people that are hiding.
Troll and his owner will join a working-dog course in November and they also do Agility on a regular basis.
Josefine is very happy with Troll and tells us that he is a happy dog who loves all the activities they are doing :)
PS: Sorry for the poor english translation of the competition language, but somethings just does not translate that well, but let me know of any mistakes and I will fix it :):)
-Maud Kristine-
One week later they competed again in LP1, with the same result, but this time they were 4th out of over 20 competitors. So now they are working to compete in LP2
This weekend Troll and Josefine went to a rottweiler meeting and for the second time in Troll`s career he has tried tracking and something called "rundering" in Norwegian, its when the dog finds people that are hiding.
Troll and his owner will join a working-dog course in November and they also do Agility on a regular basis.
Josefine is very happy with Troll and tells us that he is a happy dog who loves all the activities they are doing :)
PS: Sorry for the poor english translation of the competition language, but somethings just does not translate that well, but let me know of any mistakes and I will fix it :):)
-Maud Kristine-
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