Curses.

Pork Chop has not been cleared for his alter op because he is 'holding on to the kennel cough.'

At least a week more.

I'm so bummed, and a bit worried. Please don't let this be that he has a depressed immune system. I could not bear that.

The foster says, oh, I have a pit/lab puppy, do you want him? This makes me wonder if there is something worse wrong with the little guy.

And, uh. Nope. It is either Pork Chop or nobody for me at this point.

I say again, curses.

bonny, I'm not familiar with dogs, but cats can -- and do -- live perfectly normal lives with depressed immune systems (FIV). Our shelter is one of the (unfortunately, far too) few shelters that cares for and adopts out FIV+ cats. We have to be careful -- if something's going around, they're more likely to catch it -- but with normal care and a lack of reluctance to visit the vet, they live perfectly healthy lives. In fact, you couldn't tell them from our non-FIV cats, except that the FIV and non-FIV are kept in separate areas.

And no, FIV can't be passed from cats to any other species. Only between cats. In fact, Hubs got bit badly by an FIV+ (short version -- he was trying to break up a fight the wrong way), and he was never at any risk.

Coping~ma, omnis. That sounds like quite a lot.

Sorry, bonny. Hoping he kicks the cough and you get him next weekend.

Kennel cough can be pretty persistent in well dogs.

IME, shelters and foster places almost always suggest pits and pit mixes to possible adopters, just because there are so many of them waiting for homes.

I always suggest greyhounds, but that's what my group places.

OMG, I wish we could get a third dog. There's a whippet/IG puppy up for adoption just north of us. He's so flipping adorable.

Signed,

There are dogs other than sighthounds? This does not compute!

I want a dog. Not now, I can't have one, but in the future I'd like to have one with Will. A dog, the cats, some Nigerian Dwarf Goats, maybe some chickens. Possibly barn cats.

If I could ever find a laid back Basenji like my great aunt and uncle had that would be great. But laid back is very atypical for Basenjis.

But laid back is very atypical for Basenjis.

Yeah, I was about to say -- amazing, cool, inquisitive, fun dogs, IME, but they're normally a fast-moving blur.

My great aunt and uncle, whose beach cottage is next to ours, always had a Basenji, and the last two they had were very laid back. They spent a lot of time at the beach, until my great uncle died, so I got to spend time with Baby (the Basenji). You could let her run off leash on the beach because there wasn't too much to chase, no danger of dogs, and eventually she'd come back to you when she called.

She really liked Dad and any time we went over Dad had to pet her right away. The few times he didn't she'd paw at his leg and yodel for his attention.

Okay, here's how addled my brain is on migraine meds. You know how it's common for scandals to be named with the suffix "-gate" now (Whitewatergate, Nannygate, etc.)?

I just read a reference to "Watergate" and thought, "I wonder what water that refers to?"

I cannot brain.