Mickey!
My dad, who owns Bella, the 3 yr old black Dane, adopted him on Friday from a rescue we didn't even know existed in our town. The rescue turns out to be awesome, and has shut down 3 puppy mills and rescued some awesome dogs from horrible situations.
So here's Mickey! He's an 18 month old Deaf Dane. 32 inches and 130 lbs currently. He is about 90% Deaf or so. He can hear really loud things. His sight is fine, even though he had to have two eye surgeries.
The story for him is that he and his hearing and sight impaired brother Stratton were bought from a person who wanted to use them as sires. Yeah. They were going to sire off him, a DEAF Dane, and his BLIND and DEAF brother to get puppies and sell the puppies for $5,000 a piece. A friend of the rescue heard about this, pulled up in her cop car, and asked about them. The people then gladly sold the brothers off for a couple hundred.
Mickey (previously Briggs) and Stratton both had kennel cough coming in. While Mickey got better, Stratton did not, and he later developed pneumonia. He died, then, and Mickey went into severe depression. The two were really attached, and were the only two surviving pups in the litter, then Stratton died and...yeah. Mickey lost 15+ lbs due to depression and almost died himself.
Finally he started to come out of his depression and get well. He was neutered and had his two eye surgeries done to separate his two eyelids so that he could see, and he was then put up for adoption!
He is the sweetest thing ever. He loves everyone and everything. Bella was a bit sketchy about him and barked and growled, but since he couldn't hear it, he didn't react, which calmed Bella down and now they are best friends.
Just had to share!
My dad, who owns Bella, the 3 yr old black Dane, adopted him on Friday from a rescue we didn't even know existed in our town. The rescue turns out to be awesome, and has shut down 3 puppy mills and rescued some awesome dogs from horrible situations.
So here's Mickey! He's an 18 month old Deaf Dane. 32 inches and 130 lbs currently. He is about 90% Deaf or so. He can hear really loud things. His sight is fine, even though he had to have two eye surgeries.
The story for him is that he and his hearing and sight impaired brother Stratton were bought from a person who wanted to use them as sires. Yeah. They were going to sire off him, a DEAF Dane, and his BLIND and DEAF brother to get puppies and sell the puppies for $5,000 a piece. A friend of the rescue heard about this, pulled up in her cop car, and asked about them. The people then gladly sold the brothers off for a couple hundred.
Mickey (previously Briggs) and Stratton both had kennel cough coming in. While Mickey got better, Stratton did not, and he later developed pneumonia. He died, then, and Mickey went into severe depression. The two were really attached, and were the only two surviving pups in the litter, then Stratton died and...yeah. Mickey lost 15+ lbs due to depression and almost died himself.
Finally he started to come out of his depression and get well. He was neutered and had his two eye surgeries done to separate his two eyelids so that he could see, and he was then put up for adoption!
He is the sweetest thing ever. He loves everyone and everything. Bella was a bit sketchy about him and barked and growled, but since he couldn't hear it, he didn't react, which calmed Bella down and now they are best friends.
Just had to share!
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