Pet Adoption

Kira has a big friend, his name is Gray. Big - because he is mastino.And because his attitude to Kira is very careful. He gives Kira a lot of tenderness and love. Gray allows Kira to do everything: to take away a toy from him, to run quickly and bump into him, to be disobedient and restless near him, to behave impudently with him. I think, that he knows, how highly Kira appreciates his friendship. Yesterday Gray turned out to have a big problem, a dangerous infectious disease (piroplasmosis). Gray went with his owner to the forest for a walk last weekend. It was bitten by an infected tick in the forest. The owner noticed the symptoms of the illness at his dog on the fifth day. His appetite has gone and his temperature had gone up. He became languid and stopped playing. Blood appeared in his urine. Gray was diagnosed in hospital. It was necessary to give him an injection of a special medicine. The problem was that the medicine could not only rescue Gray, but it could kill him as well. It can cause irreversible defeat of the central nervous system at some dogs. Very difficult problem was put before the owner of Gray. Gray could die without the medicine, but the medicine could kill him. Nobody could give any guarantees. And the time for decision-making was not enough. Each half an hour aggravated the illness. The real Russian roulette! The real one because the stake was Gray’s life. The injection was given. It was necessary to wait a day for the results. Believe me, it was a terrible day. Today Gray is much better. He has survived.

Comments of Kira: I want to hear nothing about it. I want to know nothing about it…

All of us have heard about heavy forms of dog or act wool allergy. And now about animal allergies. People realize the gravity of this problem. Therefore they attentively watch the animals’ reactions. But very few people know that animals, too, can have allergy. Allergy for the owner. The owner of the animal does not guess that he can be a source of problems for his pet. The smell of the owner can become the reason for itching at the animal, diarrhea, an allergic rhinitis and other problems. Sometimes it is enough for the owner to change his habitual shampoo or soap and the dog starts scratching its ears. The owner stops smoking - a cat stops casting its wool. One of my friends, an owner of a sheep-dog, suffered from heavy allergy. She noticed that after using aerosol to remove an allergic attack, her dog did not approach her some days. If the dog was made to join the master, next day he started sneezing heavily. It isn’t difficult for us to help our pets. That will do if you protect them from injuring situations. And for this purpose you have to be attentive to those whom you love, to our pets.

Some years back our Varvara have suddenly stopped to obey. You submit a command, and she does not carry it out. And only after you will retell it loudly, she submits to a command. We were very anxious with such situation. We needed some weeks to understand, in what a problem. The Varvara has not stopped to obey. She has stopped to hear. She has injured her auricle in fight with other dog. Inflammatory process has begun and has considerably lowered her hearing. Illness has got chronic form already when we have found out a problem. The medicines traditionally used for treatment of ears, did not give a positive effect. One of our friends, owners of dogs too, has advised us to try a medicine which treats mastitis. The result was very good. There has come improvement and recovery very quickly. We have learned the Varvara to a sign language at the same time. And now, when our ten years Varvara sensory acuity has sharply decreased because of age, we can communicate with it on a sign language. We have avoided many problems. And we teach other our dogs to understand gestures. Sometimes it can be very useful.