Navan Animal Rescue Corporation (NARC)

Well, guess I am not going to work in the flower beds tonight with this rain!!!  Thank you to everyone that brought perennials, planted 11 last night and still looking for more.  Huge property, if you have perennials you want to part with, we will take them at NARC.  Don’t mind the hard work, it’s good for the soul and muscles Ha! Ha! Ha! 

We brought in a few new dogs last week and guess what?  One of them brought in lice, yuck.  I know they don’t live on humans or in the environment but I couldn’t help but feel itchy everywhere!  I have only seen lice twice in my 8 years at NARC, a rare parasite for sure…  So, that being said, we had to doze the whole house again, an expensive little surprise let me tell you.  Now we need more advantage, multi-advantage or revolution as we have to repeat the dose in 2 weeks time to ensure we kill the larvae.  Oh the joys of taking new dogs in…  Name of the game as they say!

Most of you are aware that when Bijoux was dropped off another shih-tzu was with her and ran from the lady that had them and off she went on Navan Road.  We have been looking for this dog ever since.  At one point, due to people stopping on the road and chasing it to try and catch it, the dog ended up relocated to Smith Road and 10th Line Road.  It has been 2 weeks now that it has been living in our font yard.  At least there I know it is getting food and water every day, it keeps running between our property  and my neighbours.   I didn’t blog it being that we DO NOT want anyone coming over trying to catch it and scare it to another location again where it may not be safe.  Someone lent us a dog trap but it is for larger dogs and way to big for this dog, we do trap it but it manages to get out from the bottom right corner by pushing it’s way out after eating.  Very smart little dog!  We need a smaller sized trap, shih-tzu size so we can finally get this dog in at NARC, so I can have the peace of mind that it is not running wild and may possibly get hit by a car… to also stop the driver by’s to try and catch it and run after it to scare the hell out of it again… or stop all the calls thinking it is one of our dogs loose on Navan Road…  YES, we know there is a dog loose and are trying our best to catch it – NO it is not a NARC dog but we surely will accept it as a NARC dog the moment we can find a trap that it can’t actually get out of!!  This little dog has been out there for over 5 weeks now, let’s find a small trap and get it into our home!

I am leaving soon to drop off Canelle for her spay and dental cleaning, possibly extractions.  Gypsy is coming with me for a check up on her ear infection to see how she is coming along and hopefully new medications.  Also our beauty Sami is coming to get her/his nails and feathers clipped, usually something I do myself but being we are just in training, it is best if the “trainer” does not clip at the beginning.  See how good she/he is, letting me do pretty much anything I want, she/he is actually sleeping on my lap while I am giving her/him a body massage Ha! Ha! Ha!  Only got this bird Friday night!  She/he is pretty cool so the feather clipping is so that I can bring her/him outside with me while working at NARC on weekends, don’t like her/him being stuck inside alone all day and she needs to get used to different people!  Yeah, don’t know it’s sex, would have to DNA as the Goffin Cockatoo is one of the Cockatoo’s that you can’t tell by eyes or feathers!