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Unfortunately a cat my family has tried to rescue must find a new home. Elliott is a healthy 4 year old neutered
and front declaw male. He is a great pet, very friendly and loves attention. Severe allergies have made our attempt to help
rescue this animal a disaster. I'll only give him to someone who will love and respect this one-of-a-kind cat. Call: Tim Fitzgerald
989-854-1088
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What a joy! Bruno will make you smile and he will make you laugh. He will win your heart as he has mine.
But Bruno can not live with cats, so I need to find a home for him. In the short time he has been with me he has been
housebroken and crate trained. We are also working on some manners. He catches on quickly. Bruno is blind
most likely form a progressive degenerative retinal condition. You would never know he was blind though. He plays
with his tennisballs and kong, and found the couch all on his own. He has also learned how to open the closet door that
contains his food, so like I said, you would never know he was blind. We walk everyday, he loves it and does
really well. Bruno gets along great with my other dog. Bruno was found as a stray. He is about
6 years old, 75 pounds and in very good health. He is current on all his vaccines, heartworm negative and on heartworm
preventative. Bruno is very gentle and has a great temperment. He will give you kisses, sleep at your feet
and be your best bud.
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| This is Scooter now, posted 6-7 |

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| Scooter new photo posted 6-7 |
Foxy (we call her Scooter)is a sweet old girl. She was a stray brought to animal control and we are fostering her
until she can have a forever home. We think she is 8 yrs old or so. She is very quiet and calm and did not even
flinch when introduced to the other dogs and cats in our household. She appears to be housebroken and quietly goes to
the door when she needs to go out. We had a few piddle accidents the first few days home as we were first letting her
roam free in the house with the other dogs and learning her signals for needing to go outside. She really enjoys
wandering around our fenced yard exploring and house and sniffing every inch of the property. She does not fetch or
really play with other dogs, although she gets along fine with our pack of dogs and cats. She stood still and did not mind
getting a bath the day she came to our house. She does not respond to the name “Foxy”, so we started play with
different sounding names and got a bit of a response from her with the name “Scooter”. She is not leash
trained or follow simple commands, but is totally controllable. She walks fine on the leash, just roams around.
We are working on teaching her these things. She is low energy and low maintenance so far with us. We have never
heard her bark. We think she may have been just a breeding dog without a whole lot of training or attention from people.
She has obviously had a few litters. We have given her unsupervised time in the house a few hours at a time and she
did not get in to or chew up anything. She is protective of her food from other animals, not humans, and would best
be fed by herself if there are other animals in the house. We just give her meals in one of our indoor crates. She is
a very sweet and calm dog and will make a very nice pet and deserves an nice place to call her own. Please email Julie
if you are interested at mailto:steven49@msu.edu. All adoption information, fee and medical records are through HATS. You can also contact shelter 989-773-9721.
Update
on Scooter: FYI for your info for people interested in adopting Scooter. Here are her good points: She is hilarious. She does this little
back stepping Scooter jig at meal time and when she is happy and excited. She is very calm. She lets us put holiday
costumes on her! She does not chew, she is very quiet, she does fine uncrated in the house (for longer times in the
house toileting in the house may happen). When we leave her in the house, she is gated with another dog or two to
the basement where we have linoleum and not carpet. She is very unhappy and frantic in a crate. She will quietly
lay in one spot for long periods at time (provided it is a sofa or dog bed) She now will come on her own to a human and ask
for head rubs. She did not seek any attention when we first had her home. She will now lay beside you on the sofa
when relaxed but is not a lap dog. She was totally submissive and calm when being introduced to our other dogs.
She is fine with cats and gives them plenty of distance. She stands still for baths and is great about nail clipping.
On leash walks she pretty much ignores people and other dogs… everything except what she smells. She is a hound,
so that nose is down and tail up on walks. She will “play” fetch but only with the other dogs. She gets
the concept of chasing the other dogs while they are fetching tennis balls, but won’t chase/fetch anything on her own.
This is the one time when she is noisy…she bays and bays and chases the other dogs fetching tennis balls and Frisbees.
It is hilarious. Here
are her problems:
Our biggest worry is that she is an escape artist. She can get out of crates and digs under fence lines. We have
secured our fence in the weak or dug out spots. Her new home must have a large secure fenced yard. We don’t
leave her out in the yard unsupervised for long periods of time. We have an outdoor kennel within the yard we keep her
and another dog in if they will be outside unsupervised for awhile. She goes #1 and #2 in the house if not getting her
outside frequently and immediately after eating. When she came to us she did not know how to play and would not take
treats at all…almost like she had never been given food from a hand before. With training and lots of peanut butter,
she is now about 50/50 with coming when called. She obviously had no traditional training. When you touch her,
grab her collar or try to direct her she shakes and gets very nervous. I think the poor girl lived her life in a kennel
just reproducing and the only touch was for breeding or vet care. The way we direct her is by putting our hand on her
bottom gently and “scooting” her the direction we need her to go. Hence her name “Scooter”.
Due to 12 teeth being pulled, we soak her kibble in hot water for about 15 minutes to get it soft and add some canola oil
to get more calories in her. She was skin and bones when we got her. We feed her with our other older calm dog.
When they are done we feed the younger ones. She will not eat and she shakes with high energy dogs vibrating
around and waiting for leftovers in her dish. We were told she was food aggressive when we brought her home. We rarely
see this and this only happens if we feed all the dogs in the same room at once and the others approach her food before she
is done. Separate feeding times works like a charm for both of our older dogs. She will not eat in a crate.
We tried several different
foods for her. She does best on Diamond Natural Chicken and Rice. All of our dogs have muscled up and lost fat
on this food. Scooter seems to have a sensitive gut, and some treats and commercial foods give her the runs. This
food seems to agree with her well.That
is what I can think of for now. She is a very sweet old girl. Julie.
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