This beautiful, friendly dog appeared in our neighborhood a few weeks back. Last night we found her unable to walk, due to what looked like bite wounds in one foot. Vet says it was a traffic accident, probably with a scooter as there was no big impact. She has chafing injuries and a nerve was damaged in one of her front legs, and keeps her from stretching her paw and walking on it. The scooter might have ran over this paw. We’ll try medication first, but that leg may have to come off.
The thing is, this dog is extremely friendly. She became friends with our dogs instantly and is very much at ease with all our cats and kittens checking her out as well. She wags her tail when we approach her and loves to be touched and will lick us as a reward… She’s clean with a shiny coat. She’s well fed and in excellent health, so says the vet. She has definitely been with people. Someone has also had her spayed not too long ago (and whoever did it, did not chip her ear, so it shouldn’t have been a CNR). Our vet took out the stitches of this recent operation.
Someone cares about this dog! We want to find this person and return the dog to him/her. Please spread the word and hang her picture at your vet’s if you can. Finally, if you want to help by translating the information in this post into Mandarin, that would be great too. Thanks.
She’s just over 17kg. She did not wear a collar when we found her and the vet did not find a chip.
Pic taken before the vet took out these 3 stitches that are typical for a de-sexing operation. The wound to her left of the stitches is a result of the accident she had.
Sweet and beautiful.
She did not wear a collar when we found her.
We tried what we could to find the owner, assuming Bliksem had one, but none was found. Alas, the motornerve in her left front leg remained dead and the vet (we did do a second opinion as well) had to amputate the leg. Bliksem will come home to us tomorrow. She really is incredibly sweet and well-behaved. She does her pooping and peeing strictly outside during one of her daily walks and walks on a leash without pulling. Tests were negative for parvo and distemper. She gets Revolution to prevent heartworm and fleas and ticks. She’s clean as a whistle. She’s already been de-sexed and will be vaccinated shortly. We would love to keep her, but we’ve already made that promise to another 4 dogs and 5 cats… Here’s your chance to own a trouble-free beautiful very sweet tu gou.
Bliksem has been vaccinated and received her rabies shots. She’s been de-sexed and chipped. She’s healing from her surgery amazingly well. She’s fast on her 3 legs and her remaining front leg is growing stronger every day. She’s looking for a loving home, here or abroad. She’s ready to fly to a great number of countries which recognize Taiwan as rabies-free.
If you’re abroad and you’re interested, we’ll do all the paperwork and will arrange her trip. She’s all a dog can be and more! She’s smart and has learned all our dogs’ do’s and don’t’s in no time. She’s eager to please and very gentle, but she’s no push over: she’s established her role as the alpha dog amongst our dogs.
Why the name Bliksem? Dutch and Afrikaans is very similiar…
But in Dutch bliksem is not a swear word, nor is donder. The associations I have with the name are more like energy, power, will power. And she sure is showing all of those, having adjusted to life on 3 legs as if she never had 4.
Bliksem is also associated with thunder:) Especially donder. Good to know she’s doing well:)
Battery9, imagine you are at the beach or in a park in SA and you call your 2 dogs: Kom hier, Bliksem, Donner!
:roflmao: :roflmao:
Unfortunately I will propably get beaten up! What a cute dog…sigh…wish all of us nutty animal lovers can rent a HUGE house with a HUGE yard and just keep all the animals that find us.
Here are some recent pics of this total sweetheart of a dog now on 3 legs:
