Climbers rescued dog and now needs help with her pups.

Dear Prospective Precocious Puppy Parents:

Perhaps I was over cautious or naïve or perhaps I am just spent. I know Lozen the Mom is done. She is out of milk and out of patience. Here is what is going on with the pups. They are eating Science Diet puppy kibble. They are teething. I bought them chew toys but Lozen takes them and chews them up (she is still teething). The pups have figured out dog doors and what the sound of food preparation soon means. They love to go on long walks in the cool hours of the day though mind where you step, they are often under foot. They have gotten use to riding in the truck and seem to enjoy the ride. Though they are good at not soiling the area where they sleep, they are not house broken.

Notch, the second largest black/white male with the white music note symbol on his nose is still "out there"

I worry about them here on the ranch due to Rattle Snakes and also worry when up on the mountain due to bears and eagles. We have been trying to mitigate these issues but still only so much can be done. So…”Puppy Pick-Up” could/should be earlier than later, I think. These little guys grew up sooner than I expected from their slimy/skinny start. Perhaps that is due to the genes from their Mom. She was the last dog standing, bleeding and emaciated but still fighting. She moves like a wild thing without being untrainable. I lucked out with her….and you. Thanks for helping me out here.

Thank, Roy

The momma dog is cuter than the puppies

s.price wrote:Very cool of you to take them in. This past January we found a box of 4 week old puppies at a gas station in Shiprock. There were 5. Heeler mix. No teeth and eyes barely open we had to bottle feed them to start. All are female and adopted out. We kept one. Her name is two row after the type of barley we use at the distillery. She is awesome and gets better every day. Quite the frisbee dog. Dogs who are taken from their mom too early tend to be mouthy for awhile. This is probably the case with the mom as she is probably too old to be teething much. Good luck and stay the course. A bunch of puppies are easy to underestimate.

Also I got your message Roy, I would love to get out there climbing and picking up this pup but not sure how I could make it work. Keep us updated on the process please

Nick, try Even Williams Bourbon. Not bad for the $. And if you come get a puppy I will send you home with a bottle.

Chief and Blanco will be picked up soon. I am going to keep Spin. After all, she was the slime ball I almost ran over on the single trac then road home with her in my jersey with mom tied to my shoulders with an inner-tube. Much blood and amniotic fluid every where made a wrinkle on my brain for her. Notch though, I believe to be, the best prospect at being the best behaved. Not an Alpha dog, shy, more in to people than dogs, and cautious about roaming off. Crag dog protegee. I will be posting more photos of him soon!

I will in fact up the anti. I will send anybody home with a bottle as well as take them climbing in the Jungle mountainproject.com/v/jungl… on sport or trad at what ever grade while picking out only the classic lines. You even get an RV to camp in up there. Just take Notch!

Thanks

Notch is so adorable. I would love to adopt him if I could afford a dog, but as a poor college student, I can't. However, I'm willing to donate $25 to the access fund in somebody's name if they give one of the puppies a good home.

Hey Roy, we've been discussing the possibility of taking Knotch and my wife and I have been talking about visiting the jungle for years now. I've been wanting to go back since I put up King Kong:
mountainproject.com/v/king-…
The only problem is timing....I am on call from July 9th-12th so I can't leave Salt Lake City, and July 16th my wife has a race at Alta ski resort. However, the following weekend July 23rd-24th we could plan on coming down to the jungle. Even if we don't decide to not take Knotch, we could bring him to SLC where his chances of being adopted are near 100%. We live a VERY active lifestyle where we constantly camp, climb, ski, mtn bike etc and our dogs go everywhere with us. I could also take a little longer weekend and stay at the Jungle Friday-Monday....wudda ya think?

PM me if needed and I can provide my contact info......

Oh yea the offer of Whiskey definitely will be taken up on, as well as, the donation to access fund....Maybe just a donation to the access fund instead of whiskey, but I'd have to think very hard about it.......

There are two other (non) definitive Notch commitments ahead of yours. I am checking these out now. I would say, come on down and it may or may not work out but the climbing and bourbon is still there. When the other two verify yeah or neigh, I will post here. Thanks.

s.price wrote:I will up the ante and also send you a bottle if you take a pup from Roy. Your choice of gin, a very smooth all corn shine or a fine whiskey.

More of Notch or Knotch or Whatever you like:
Please know this is not propaganda, but he IS the best mannered pup!

Boy I will take them all....

All that is "not spoken for" is Notch. Do you want him?

Roy Suggett wrote:All that is "not spoken for" is Notch. Do you want him?

Good/Sad day. Climbers out of Phoenix picked up Chief today. The rest of the litter, Lozen and I miss him, though he seemed to be in good hands.

Man it is a good feeling when you save a little angel like that, I found dogs all over the island, and when I find them a family it is sad to let them go...but I keep this one... Nino my buddy...

Bad news today. My worst nightmare became reality. The first pup out on the single trac was the little runt I called "Spin". At 6 am I went out to the garage/barn to find her near death due to a snake bite. By the time I located the snake, removed the rest of the dogs, and started for the vet (6 hr. round trip) the hemo-toxin had caused so much tissue damage and swelling she succumbed to the ordeal. What you all did not know was she was my pick to keep. Life sometimes just sucks! It is for many complicated reasons that as hard as I have attempted to keep them safe...I could not. It is a bad year for snakes. I feed wild birds, they drop seeds, rodents come, snakes come. When I see a rattler I will catch and haul it off many miles. This year I just shot them but they just keep coming. I have trained the adult dogs using a big Gopher Snake to fear snakes but the pups are too small and young to make this work. Two weeks and the last two should be with safer parents.

Man I am so sorry, you do your best and save the others,,,,,

Thanks, and your Nimo is a good looking lucky dog.

Roy.... Oh man that sucks. Been following this thread with interest, good on you for saving these dogs.
Rattlers in the barn!!! Not good