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I also live out in the "sticks", if you will, and Willowy was correct that there still are small, local shelters that do not have chip readers. My local animal control is one example. However, there is a lovely no-kill rescue group that also operates here and they have a donated reader that they...

My French Bulldog club certainly has members who are "enthusiasts", but the majority of us show competitively with our dogs. I would fall into the current enthusiast, former competitor category. I have never owned a conformation Frenchie...however I have "handled" a Frenchie bitch to a...

This is the third time I have tried to post in this thread, each time I have clicked "submit" the darn thing has been pulled for editing and I have lost all my work. I have been following this discussion with much interest, because I, like some others, am confused a little by some of the...

I also have a tripod who lost her right hindleg. I adopted her that way so unfortunately I am not personally aware of how she coped in the very beginning. However, before adopting her I did a lot of research and talked extensively with the staff of the humane society who rescued her and the vet...

Being from the Greater Kansas City area and having heard about/dealt with these little buggers my entire life I just had to chime in. I loved all manner of creepy crawly things as a child and often had a whole collection of jar kept specimens of every shape and size. I took one such jar to...

that just won't heal! When I picked Adele up from the shelter she had the nastiest "feathery" light tan 2x1 inch scab across her shoulder blades. This scab looked exactly like one of those flat mushrooms with the ruffly edges that you see growing on dead trees when out in the woods. The shelter...

Thank you everyone for your kind words and warm welcome. I really am looking forward to learning everything I can and, hopefully, contributing something useful! mrblanche: Adele lost her right hind leg. As far as what happened to her, she was found as a stray March 12th (I think) of this year...

Oh, I forgot to add that the day after I adopted Adele, my mom went back and adopted Allie! We found out that Allie had been waiting for her furever home for 3 long years so it was most certainly meant to be. Kindra  

Hi there my name is Kindra. I just adopted my first cat 3 weeks ago. Before I go any further I should say that, first and foremost, I would consider myself an "animal person" having forced my long suffering mother to endure all manner of creepy crawly (for instance: one summer I raised praying...