Richard Crowe's Blog (249)

We got a call from a family who live on a golf course in the city of Los Angeles who wanted to surrender their Maltese.  The reason for the surrender is that a coyote has been stalking the dog while they take it for walks.  Since they live on a golf course, they are not allowed to put up a fence and need to walk the dog to go potty.

Apparently the coyote has grabbed another dog while it was being walked on a leash and this same coyote has followed the Maltese into the family…

I was asked to write a review on an order for Vanilla ears.  I had been quite disappointed with these ears and so indicated that in the feedback.  However, Amazon bounced back the feedback with the following statements...

Patsy is a Llassa Apso - Poodle cross who is extremely protective of her one puppy, Patrick.  Patsy started to nail any dog that ventured near Patrick's puppy pen.  She even nipped Holly to the point where Holly growled (an unusual occurrence from Holly). Patsy lost three of her four puppies because of neglect in a California shelter.  Three puppies were somehow drowned in an open drain. So we can't really get down on Patsy but, we cannot have her nailing the dogs who are curious about…

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…

Here is Sunny when Maltese Rescue California received her.  She had been attacked by a large dog as a puppy and never received vet care for her injuries...

Here she is undergoing surgery...…

We have just received an owner surrendered Shih-Tsu who (we are assured by the owner) had an affair with a Maltese. She is very-very pregnant and the owner realized that as a singe working female, she couldn't whelp the puppies and care for the mom and pups...

Her name is Mikka and she seems quite healthy and well cared for (except that she was not spayed when she should have been).   But, that's the story of many rescues...…

Due to some major differences in rescue philosophy (boy, that's a euphemism), Judy and I have separated from the American Maltese Association Rescue.  We have banded together with other rescuers in Southern California to form MALTESE RESCUE CALIFORNIA. We expect to be able to better serve the needs of homeless Maltese and potential adopters in Southern California and parts of Arizona and Nevada.  We have applied for our 501(c)3 status as a nonprofit tax exempt entity and expect to have the…

Yesterday, we were at the Grand Woofstock dog event in Escondido and got two adoptions.  However, we also made some contacts with a vendor for Dick Van Patten Natural Balance Food who will get us a good discount for our rescue efforts and with a dog trainer who is willing to help us with some dogs that have behaviors which make them hard to adopt.  

The first tip she gave us worked like a charm.  I will pass it along because I think that this might be good for modifying…

I took our darling Cocoa on a meet and greet to a prospective adopter's home last night.  What a wonderful experience. Cocoa was a perfect lady during the entire visit.  She was friendly and animated but also mellow and undemanding.  I was so proud of Cocoa and happy for her!

This family is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, four adults ranging from a daughter in her twenties to an 80-ish grandmother who is in a wheelchair.  Cocoa came up and sniffed grandmother's hand and then put her head in her…

Heidi is a four month old Maltese-Poodle mix.  Her owner called Judy before the owner found Heidi at a backyard breeder.  The lady wanted to adopt a puppy from us but, she was in her eighties.  Judy suggested that a puppy might not be a good match for her.  In fact, her doctor and her vet had recommended against her getting a puppy. Judy said that if she had a family member as a back up in case physical conditions prevented her from caring for a dog, that an older dog might be a better idea.…