Richard Crowe's Blog – November 2013 Archive (10)

From Richard, Judy, Holly and all our Maltese and honorary Maltese fosters...

The Super Adoption Event at Rancho Mirage, California (near Palm Springs) was super for our Maltese Rescue California. My wife and the other volunteers brought 11 adoptable dogs and nine were adopted with applications on the other two. This is the first time that the organization used our new canopy.

I stayed at home to care for the dogs that didn't go...

With…

We have come to the start of our rainy season and we are very happy to see the rains come.  Rain reduces the fire hazard and also saves us money since we don't need to irrigate as much...

However, Holly's feet get terrible muddy and she needs them rinsed off just about every time she goes out.  I have a fenced acre and a quarter and nothing short of having Holly on a lead will prevent her from getting her feet muddy...

Does anyone know of an easy-on and easy-off set of boots…

Our vet has recommended OTOBAN odor eliminator and disinfectant.  Apparently this will kill both bacteria and viruses as well as neutralizing odors.

I found it at Home Depot in a concentrate for $9.00 a gallon.  Since it is a concentrate, the gallon goes a long way.

We use it for just about every pet related clean up because it will kill giardia as well as other infectious things.  We even spray our cement and lawn area, after picking up the feces, whenever a shelter rescue dog…

Our son-in-law and daughter have just bought this boat (not at the price listed though).  It is going to be a wonderful offshore fishing platform and pleasure cruise boat.  There is a netting that surrounds the deck which will prevent the small dogs from falling overboard and which will deter Holly and Shadow, their Labrador, from gong for a swim.  However, all our poochies will wear life jackets when they are out in the boat.…

LuLu (I'll post a picture of her later) came to us with a litter of puppies.  She and her puppies had been on Craigslist and then was passed from hand to hand until one of our volunteers rescued them and since the Crowe home is the designated Maltese Rescue California rehab center for hurt Maltese and also the delivery room and nursery for litters of puppies we got mom and her four puppies.

Mom has giardia and we are treating her for that.  BTW: a vet has recommended "Odoban"…

Micca is a rescue Shih Tsu 

Who has two puppies that are Shih Tsu and Maltese mixes...

Micca and her puppies stay in a puppy pen in the family room.  However…

On the day after Veteran's Day, I thought that I would write down my personal manifesto...

My European ancestors immigrated from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Germany over a two and a half century period, beginning in 1634 and culminating in the late…

I received these pictures from Cocoa's furever parents.  They love her and she has a wonderful home and loves them both...

These pictures were taken during a recent trip to the Dog Beach at Del Mar, just north of San Diego,…

We rescued Mitzi, a year old Maltese-Poodle, from a Los Angeles area shelter and noticed that she was having respiratory problems...

We assumed that it was kennel cough, so we isolated her and used a humidifier and began a regimen of antibiotics. Although kennel cough is viral in origin, antibiotics are…