Etta

This is Etta, she is a young girl, probably about 10 months to a year. She was roaming as a stray with milk but no babies to be found, emaciated and tired. We took her in knowing she would be a hard placement. Then we got to know her and knew it would be next to impossible to place her.

Here is just a snippet of who she is.

She wants to play, she wants to be social. She hits a threshold of overstimulation VERY quickly and struggles to come back down to a functional level where she can use her brain. Small dogs are a hard no. She’s fine through the fence and even “plays” in that setting- but face to face she’s untrustworthy and gets excited and wants to chomp them. She’s also an attention hog, will act out and be a brat out of jealousy. She is great in a yard by herself and will lounge and play with toys all alone. She loves to go on a walk as we know. She needs someone to help her figure out how to be a functional member of society and not a feral coyote, or ideally she just lives her life as an only dog, able to love her person, love her walks, love her playtime all by herself with a family that loves her.

Doesn’t seem too hard does it?

Wrong…

So here is what we are willing to do, or should I say Ricky Barnes is willing to do. If we can find the perfect home for Etta with no other dogs that we need to worry about if they can get along. A home that will love her, give her lots of affection, lots of good walking and toys, excellent vet references, excellent home video, then Mr. Ricky Barnes will deliver her to you anywhere in the United States.

If that isn’t a hell of an offer I simply don’t know what is. So many times people say she would be perfect for me but its too far and I can’t come get her…

So now is your chance, if she is perfect for you and you are ready to adopt right now, not next month, not in the spring, not anytime in the future other than right now then we would love to look at your application. We will be very scrutinizing obviously this is an incredible offer, it is an offer we are also considering for Smoke, who knew it would be so hard to find a home for a French Bulldog that needs to be the only dog.

Sadly this is what we are facing now, luckily we have Ricky Barnes ready and willing to do this.

Now the big question is, will it even help? will we still just har the sound of crickets with no applications?

We just don’t know but here is the offer and now we wait…

Obviously this post needs about a million shares but we shall see if that happens.

And in the blink of an eye along comes a dog that is starving to death and skin and bones her locally, I saw her, Laura saw her, Emma saw her and Eva saw her and we said well, she is a black mixed breed dog like Mookie, I am sure she is heart worm positive too, and it will take us months and months to find her a home, but what the hell, we couldn’t help the scruffy but we can help this one so Emma went and picked her up.

She is in rough shape as you can see, she has had pups somewhere, who knows where, skinny, hairless and hungry. She is young with pearl white teeth, most likely had pups with her first heat, which is gross and ridiculous but alas. She will see the vet first thing in the morning. For all of you who donated for vet care for the stuffy we hope you don’t mind if we take it and use it for this girl instead.

Welcome to Dog Ranch Rescue Etta