Floydd

If you get a moment, pop along to our rehoming page and take a look at the wonderful Floydd, if this chap could talk he'd have a very very sad tale to tell I'm sure. Picked up as a stray in Wales he found him self in council kennels and a council policy that stated that all unclaimed strays were to be put to sleep after 9 days, we found out about him on day 9!!! Our fabulous volunteer Georgia drove all the way from Birmingham to Wales to get him (Despite being heavily pregnant), kept him over night and met me the next day at Oxford. The first thing we noticed was that he drank like a fish, this went on for 2 days, having to fill the water bowl up every 5 minutes or so, he drank so much in one go that it just came back up again. I'm thinking there's a kidney issue here which is why he's been abandoned, so off to the vet we went for blood tests, nothing. Urine test - nothing, but then after a few days his excessive drinking settled down which leads us to the conclusion that he was simply deprived of water wherever he was before and it's taken him almost a week to realise that there is water down for him all the time and that he doesn't have to drink the lot in case there's none there in a minute. The other thing that really upset me was on the second night I didn't get out to shut the kennel doors until after dark - he went beserk, throwing himself at the walls in panic, yet if you close him in whilst it's still light he's fine, shut in a shed maybe??? He did make us laugh though when he got annoyed with Sue when she was cleaning out his kennel, after she'd taken everything out of the hut so she could mop it out he actually took everything back in again an item at a time, toys, blankets - everything carefully placed back where it should be. I'd love to know what he's been through, or maybe I wouldn't, but someone somewhere is going to get a beautiful sweet old gent and boy does he deserve it!

.... Floydd get's his new home and becomes the 1000th bulldog