Sailing with a Three Legged Dog

[IceDog]

I worked with Great Dane rescue when I lived in Colorado. I was a lousy foster parent cause I wanted to keep them all. We usually had 4 Danes at a time. We brought two of our fosters to Costa Rica with us and one is still alive. He is a 150lb male who is both one eyed and blind from birth. He will be well taken care of at home when we are cruising cause we definitely won't be bringing him on the boat.

[tropicalescape]

Originally Posted by SaucySailoress

OK, so I know that's not gonna happen...! But I need as much help as I can finding a new home for this one, and it doesn't have to be in Kuwait, we (as in the Shelter) can ship them out to other countries....

Maya is a three legged Golden Mix who we have just temporarily fostered from the local shelter at K'S PATH (Kuwait Society for the Protection of Animals and their habitat). She got a little depressed and gained weight after her long term kennel mate left a few weeks ago, so I brought her home to reunite with Ruby (with whom she was also kennelled for Ruby's few short weeks at K'S PATH last year).

We would love to keep her forever, but in a few short months we will be leaving on a 40' yacht with the rest of our pack, and I'm pretty sure it would be bordering on Negligence to take a three-legged dog round the world on a sailing yacht.

So, do you know anyone who would love to adopt this calm, loving and low maintenance dog? If not, share it anyway, and perhaps your friends will know someone. Pleeeeease x

Hey Saucy, I too have a Ruby dog ,Wish I could help out with "Tri-pod",good luck and you get 10 humanity points for taking care of the less fortunate..

[motion30]

I would slap a patch over his eye and a peg on his missing leg......perfect boat dog

[minaret]

Originally Posted by cal40john

What?? You don't want to emulate Tristian Jones? He wrote that he sailed with a 3 legged one eyed dog.


Ice!: Tristan Jones: 9780924486890: Amazon.com: Books

Jones claimed his dog (named Nelson, of course) saved his life. But he claimed lots of things that weren't strictly true...

Add me to the list of potential donors please. Anything to help a dog in need.

[SaucySailoress]

Taken on today's Pack Walk!!

Maya was brought in with a badly healed mangled leg, which was taken off as it was neither use nor ornament. Just five days she was reticently dragging behind, but today she started playing with the rest of the Pack (there were ten dogs on our Pack Walk today)!

[captainbri]

Shipping a dog the cheap and safe way, Find a person flying back to the states and offer to pay a portion of their airfare.

[LoveMyWoodie]

Originally Posted by SaucySailoress

OK, so I know that's not gonna happen...! But I need as much help as I can finding a new home for this one, and it doesn't have to be in Kuwait, we (as in the Shelter) can ship them out to other countries....

Maya is a three legged Golden Mix who we have just temporarily fostered from the local shelter at K'S PATH (Kuwait Society for the Protection of Animals and their habitat). She got a little depressed and gained weight after her long term kennel mate left a few weeks ago, so I brought her home to reunite with Ruby (with whom she was also kennelled for Ruby's few short weeks at K'S PATH last year).

We would love to keep her forever, but in a few short months we will be leaving on a 40' yacht with the rest of our pack, and I'm pretty sure it would be bordering on Negligence to take a three-legged dog round the world on a sailing yacht.

So, do you know anyone who would love to adopt this calm, loving and low maintenance dog? If not, share it anyway, and perhaps your friends will know someone. Pleeeeease x

Thanks for making my day after a snowstorm last night -three feet!..of snow.
I'm in for $50 to help with shipping,too.
Ive gotten all my "best friends" from the pound.

If,after a while,no-one steps up to the plate and your leaving -i will take her.

Im Looking afta me 93 WW2 vet mom and is lonely 'round here-Alzheimer's.

"Tripod"...great name!

Thanks for all you do for the dogs....

You are a sweetheart

[LoveMyWoodie]

Originally Posted by LoveMyWoodie

Thanks for making my day after a snowstorm last night -three feet!..of snow.
I'm in for $50 to help with shipping,too.
Ive gotten all my "best friends" from the pound.

If,after a while,no-one steps up to the plate and your leaving -i will take her.

Im Looking afta me 93 WW2 vet mom and is lonely 'round here-Alzheimer's.

"Tripod"...great name!

Thanks for all you do for the dogs....

You are a sweetheart

ps...with all the kind donations from the folks here on the forum...Tripod will be able to pick his owner....or buy a boat

[SaucySailoress]

Not yet!! Until I can find a home for her and see if we need to pay for shipping, I don't want to give anyone details of the shelter's payal account... she may end up back in the shelter and wasting away.

[tropicalescape]

Originally Posted by SaucySailoress

Not yet!! Until I can find a home for her and see if we need to pay for shipping, I don't want to give anyone details of the shelter's payal account... she may end up back in the shelter and wasting away.

you want let that happen ,will you?

[SaucySailoress]

Originally Posted by tropicalescape

you want let that happen ,will you?

I'm trying not to.

But in Kuwait we have far more idiots who buy puppies and dump them, than we have good adoptive homes.

[GrowleyMonster]

Originally Posted by cal40john

What?? You don't want to emulate Tristian Jones? He wrote that he sailed with a 3 legged one eyed dog.


Ice!: Tristan Jones: 9780924486890: Amazon.com: Books

Was his name Lucky?

[minaret]

Originally Posted by GrowleyMonster

Was his name Lucky?

Already said it, his name was Nelson. No better name for a British three legged one eyed seafaring dog. Think about it.

[bobconnie]

Wish we had the room already have 2 shelter dogs. And as far as Tristan Jones go's I sometime think Rum had a lot to do with his story!!

[micah719]

4. If there are 200 entries we will use Random.org to choose 3 numbers between 2 -200 (seeing the first post is the announcement). What ever number is selected equates to the post number that wins.

Dear Saucy:

1. The February comp had 600 entries...does this mean only 200 entries permitted?

Or, seeing as how the coverage is eastern seaboard of the US, are you only expecting 200?

2. Will Aussies marooned in Europe be automatically disqualified?

3. How did you get along with finding a home for the three legged dog?