DISQUS

Off Track: Little Ben

  • DaveBrooks · 10 months ago
    Congratulations - but make sure you do the entire vet treatment. Dogs from the South are much more likely to have heartworm, among other things - my wife has a client who just lost a rescue dog to it.

    The Washington Post had a piece Sunday urging Obama to get a shelter dog from down south, where a cultural dislike of neutering animals has led to a great excess of them.
  • Andrew_Wolfe · 10 months ago
    The Humane Society is good about that; all their dogs get the full medical treatment, including deworming and all the important shots, and you get all the records to prove it. That stuff costs, of course, but not much considering what you'd pay at a vet for the same (I assume the shelters have staff vets, or get a bulk rate or something), and considering that you get a dog with all that treatment!
  • Cathy:) · 10 months ago
    Ben looks adorable! More important than his inside manners- is he a good trail dog?