My in-laws adopted a old Llewellin Setter yrs back. Just showed up at their house one winter with huge balls of ice froze to it's leg fur. They thawed it out and called the # on the tag, no answer, finally got a hold of the owners family, it was their dad's, elderly man who had just died. They said it was in his will that the dog was to be put down (smart dog, seen death coming and traveled over the mountain and through the woods miles to get to their house)
In-laws asked if they could have him, the family said well the dog ran away nothing they could do about it and thanked them.
Dog was beautiful when they got it, don't know if it was the cheap food they were feeding him but he started scratching and gnawing licking loosing hair, stank.
I heard a commercial on the radio for that Dinovite stuff for dogs, told them to get it. Didn't take long and he was like a new dog. They had him a few yrs before he died of old age, super nice pretty dog.
Not that I'm keeping track or anything.
DH asked me how many I planned to get and I said only 4 bantams. I'm hopeful I can pick out OEGB chicks at this point in time from dealing with my own. I really need a couple of pure bred cockerels and a couple more pure bred hens to diversify my gene pool a bit so I can start breeding for resistance. He just chuckled at me and said, yeah sure. I'd be going. Oh that one is sooooo cute and dragging it home. He predicted a dozen. I told him in his dreams.
