New Pup

So, I lost Dara, one of  my beautiful Boerboels the beginning of January.  I have been looking for another to help my heart heal and to give Svayaa, my 14 month old Boerboel puppy a playmate since then. I have  registered with several large breed rescue centers across the US waiting for a compatible one that will get along with Svayaa and my cats to become available. But so far, either they have been dog or cat aggressive.

So I was looking thru the pages of a rescue in AZ and found a young Cane Corso puppy. They call her Lulu. I get to drive to AZ tonight to bring her home. I am sooo excited. I am going to rename her Kieva. It means of joy of life and happiness. I think she deserves that.

Lulu/Kieva, who is only 7.5 months old now has had a pretty rough life. From what I was told, she was found wandering in southern California with a broken elbow at about 4 months of age. So the animal control there picked her up, but didn’t have the funds to fix the elbow. So somehow the rescue in AZ heard about her and drove to CA to get her. They took her to a few specialists who all said that the leg needed to be amputated. But her first foster mom told the AZ rescue board members that Lulu/Kieva was trying to use the leg and to give her a chance to heal. Apparently Kieva is trying to use the leg more and more each day and is playing with her foster siblings very well. But according to the vets she may still end up needing the leg amputated at some point. So the rescue really wasn’t expecting to find the pup a home. But I saw her sweet face and her soulful eyes and am going to give her a home and do my best to support her so she can heal the leg as much as possible.

Sure wasn’t in my plans to find a dog that was going to need so much help. I do have a vet tech and ranching background so I hope she will do great. I get to pick her up at 9AM tomorrow morning after a  9.5  hour drive down to get her. Then she will get a nice long drive back to my place. Svayaa gets to go with us as well so we can do introductions before loading them into the jeep. I think a 10 hour drive should be a good way to help them get to know each other calmly. Leaving here at 11PM tonight, gonna be a long 20 hour day, but I think a very worthwhile one.

I just wish people would at least take animals they didn’t want or couldn’t afford proper care for to a shelter rather than dumping them and leaving them in pain to wander until someone manages to find them!

Here is a picture of her rescue page. I will post more photos once I get back home and she settles in.

lol, there went all my kick starter funds in travel expenses, but she is worth it!