Australian Terrier for rehoming soon

[Adrienne]

I will be moving into my car in a few weeks (months sooner than I expected) and still have not found a home for Spanner so it looks like a surrender will be in order which just makes me really sad.  Please, if anyone knows anyone who is looking for an Aussie Terrier and has a good home to offer he is here and ready to go. I really like this dog very much and would like to know where he goes.

 

I have completely Burnt Out and still have one pup here because I had to withdraw from the activity of selling. The pup is male and 10 weeks old. Lovely pup. He could go together with Spanner - I think Aussies go well in two's - even threes! Pup is chipped, wormed, 1st vaccinations (second Vaccination due next week which I will get done if he is still here.  Pup has had good socialisation but has had no outings for last 8 days, he is getting most of what he needs and is getting great learning from his parents but really he needs to go to his new family. I am prepared to surrender them both to a reputable rescue.

will post pics soon. Just need to transfer pics from my phone to computer to do so.

 

[Boronia]

I have messaged you @Adrienne

[Boronia]

2 hours ago, Adrienne said:

I will be moving into my car in a few weeks (months sooner than I expected) and still have not found a home for Spanner so it looks like a surrender will be in order which just makes me really sad.  Please, if anyone knows anyone who is looking for an Aussie Terrier and has a good home to offer he is here and ready to go. I really like this dog very much and would like to know where he goes.

 

I have completely Burnt Out and still have one pup here because I had to withdraw from the activity of selling. The pup is male and 10 weeks old. Lovely pup. He could go together with Spanner - I think Aussies go well in two's - even threes! Pup is chipped, wormed, 1st vaccinations (second Vaccination due next week which I will get done if he is still here.  Pup has had good socialisation but has had no outings for last 8 days, he is getting most of what he needs and is getting great learning from his parents but really he needs to go to his new family. I am prepared to surrender them both to a reputable rescue.

will post pics soon. Just need to transfer pics from my phone to computer to do so.

 

@Powerlegs maybe you know of a special hooman

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I've also messaged a lovely Doler who might have foster room.

 

[tdierikx]

10 minutes ago, Powerlegs said:

I've also messaged a lovely Doler who might have foster room.

 

 

Plenty of room here... and happy to foster both pup and Spanner...

 

T.

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[Boronia]

@Powerlegs and @tdierikx Westie Rescue Qld have contacted Adrienne and had a good talk, A from Westie rescue is going to Adrienne's place today, hopefully a good outcome.

The whole situation is just really sad

[Adrienne]

Thanks for the support everyone. Westie Rescue has been here and we have arranged for Spanner and Ham to go there in a fortnight. What a lovely lady and I am very grateful for the assistance for these lovely dogs. Maybe one day in the future when I have a secure home I can become involved in assisting with rescue also. Jilly and me will head off in our car in a few weeks time and she can get a taste for life on the move... I will be glad of a little body in my swag at night! Thanks again to all who responded and were willing to assist - it means a lot.

[Deeds]

@Adrienne All the best and take good care of yourself.  

[persephone]

Adrienne.,so glad the boys have somewhere to go, and you  & Jilly travel safely. 

[tdierikx]

Great news @Adrienne... take care of yourself and Jilly now, and rest easy knowing that Spanner and Ham will be in the best hands ever, and will get their very own perfect forever homes.

 

T.

[Boronia]

@Adrienne Just a check in to ask how you are going

[Adrienne]

Thanks for the interest. I feel torn about keeping Jilly with me... it might make things harder for me, and put her at risk. I am pretty stressed about it. I am packing my stuff up slowly and having to get very real about what I need and what I have to let go. My granddaughter is very attached to Jilly, and I have just told her I am going on a road trip (how to talk about homelessness to kids is hard without worrying them).  I feel really angry that she is going to have to process this also. And I know that she would feel better thinking of me and Jilly together, like I won't be alone. Jilly is the first little dog I have owned, and honestly the sweetest dog I have known, and that's what worries me. I am going to the fringe and I know who and what is there because I have been there before. Any one of my other dogs over my life would be an asset in this situation. Jazz (Cattle cross), Jackie (Tibetan Mastiff x kelpie), and Georgie (kelpie cross).

 

I wish I had Jackie, she was the size of a kelpie and had the heart and mind of the mastiff... she was a pain in the arse to exercise - like, you couldn't take her to a great area and let her have a run. If I stood still or sat down she did too. That in her mind was her job, to remain within 6 feet of me at all times watching, looking, surveying. I travelled around outback NSW with her on my own (with Jazz too) and never felt vulnerable. Once, a male friend who Jackie had never met came to visit my camp and he kept up approaching despite her barking at him, she let him away for three steps and then went in hard at his legs. Hah! "That's a good dog you got." I lost her to melanoma when she was 9years old. Devastating.

 

Once I had to leave Georgie alone for five days. She had my car with a window down and an open bag of kibble and a creek nearby for water. When I got back she was right there, happy healthy and overjoyed to see me. She would have stayed and stayed and stayed I know. She was great with snakes too ... let me know they were there, but never tried to do anything other than watch them and let them pass through. She was an amazing ratter too. I lost Georgie to cancer just two years ago. Heartbreaking.

 

I have no idea how long I will be out this time, these last three years is the longest I have been on private property over the last ten years. I was hoping I would be able to end my cycle of living at the fringe whilst I was here. But no, I can't. And now I have a little dog which might not be the dog for the job. I love her and I wish I could find a way to keep her safe while I try to find a way to get secure housing. No-one in my life is able to accommodate her. My daughter told me that my granddaughter told her, when they were talking about what she wants to do when she's older she said "When I am eighteen I am going to get my own place and get Jilly from Adji and bring her home to me." 

 

 

[Princess Fru Fru]

@Adrienne I've only just replied to your private message from April and have now just seen your thread here.  I am so sorry that you've found yourself in this scenario.

 

I understand that you're concerned for Jilly but try and take comfort that the breed was created to survive the Australian bush and are probably far tougher and feistier than people give them credit for.  They really are tough, hard-bitten and rugged little dogs and having Jilly with you through this time will help keep your spirits up.  They're such larrikins so I can see her making you smile when you're feeling down and she'll definitely keep you warm! 

[Boronia]

just a little message to ask how you are going @Adrienne?

here's hoping that you've made a decision you are happy and comfortable with

B xx

[Adrienne]

It has been a very difficult few weeks and our boys left on Sunday morning. Of course I was very upset with myself and watching Jilly doing all looking out for them and standing at the gate and listening very carefully to neighbourhood dogs barking and spending long periods standing in front of me staring at me as if to say "Come on! Where are our boys? Call them! let's go look for them!" lots of tears and feelings of loss and sadness. Monday to Wednesday was the worst and Thursday my granddaughter came to visit and Jilly was overjoyed to see her and we spent a few hours playing with her and snuggling with her. Today (Friday) I feel we are over the worst of it, last night Jilly crawled in under the covers and I enjoyed the feeling of her up against me. This morning she is more animated and even cheeky which I love and I feel we are going to be fine.

 

I am grateful for the assistance. It was difficult. It was the right thing for the dogs and for me (in my circumstance). 

[persephone]

I am glad you are both recovering from your loss now . Jilly will soon adapt , and provide you with much joy and comfort   

[Boronia]

How's life treating you @Adrienne? I hope you and Jilly are well and and fairly happy

[Adrienne]

Okay, we are good! Jilly has proved herself to be an AMAZING companion for living 'out and about'. We have been living in a swag out of my car. I decided to stay in my community near my family. Because of the breadth and depth of the housing crisis, I detected a genuine shift in the way people think about homelessness and people who are homeless so I decided to just stay living in my suburb. I have not established a camp, we just roll our swag out in the same spot every night and roll it up early every morning, we spend out days walking around our local area bushland reserves and beautiful parks. As the heat has increased we have to chase the shade and find good micro climates to rest in - very hot days are difficult and I am careful to keep us safe and hydrated. Last month some of our favourite spots became very snake-y and tick-y which has limited us.

 

In the week after Spanner and Ham left I had to leave Jilly at home while I went to an appointment, in the previous two years she had never barked when left (I guess she always had the company of other dogs), but she barked incessantly the whole two hours I was away and from thereafter even when I left her in the car to duck into the shop she barked and barked. I was really concerned about our level of anxiety and my distress at what we were about to step into together - I nearly rehomed her too!

 

BUT, Jilly is excellent and has not missed a beat since we left. So Princess Fru Fru your message of support re the breed was spot on! She stopped barking when left in the car (windows up and aircon on folks, to duck into shop) after a few times. In myself I settled that, in this respect, she would just have to take her lumps, like we all need to from time to time over certain things - my lack of interest in her take on the situation seemed to help. 

 

She LOVES the swag. The first night we slept in it she was beside herself with delight, just jumped right in as if to say "WOW! A big soft Kennel - best Sleepover ever". I like the swag too, but Jilly loves it... at the end of every day we go to our sleep spot and usually I will make a cuppa and have a sit (far to early for me to be hopping into bed), but Jilly stands in front of me like a statue eyeballing me intently as if to say "Hey, where's the bed!". So that's how it is, I watch the sun go down with a cuppa and a fag and Jilly does that lovely thing that dogs do snuffling up a nest out the the blankets and making very contented throaty sounds and wagging her tail when I chat to her. 

 

She is very alert but not reactive to the situations we encounter. She has always been good on the lead and friendly with other dogs and because she is literally on lead most daylight hours I am discovering a new level of communication and way of being which is much more give and take back and forth between us - It's really striking to me. I might make another post about this aspect because I'd be interested in others experience this too. 

 

I took her to my vet last week for a check up and vaccine update. My vet commented on her rear legs when he was feeling her remarking at how solid and muscly they were.

She is nearly a kilo heavier than 12 weeks ago and I bet it's all muscle! He was very pleased with her condition. I have also had great updates from the families who bought pups from Jilly's litter and they have grown beautifully and are very loved. Unfortunately, re Spanner & Ham, when you surrender an animal to a rescue you never get an update pic, you never get a desexing certificate, you never really know. I never thought I would ever have to surrender an animal in my life, it was one thing to come to terms with the circumstances which arose making it necessary, it was a whole other thing to realise later that I was now excluded from knowing anything more about them. I cried a lot over Spanner, that little dog just charmed me big time ... I still find water close to my eye when I think of him. As for Ham, I had planned keeping him for stud. It will be years before I am in that position again.

 

That's the update, delivered just now because, lucky me, I am in a house for a week or so and have internet for my laptop! Yay.