Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🌞🌧️🌨️🌞 Thursday, September 12, 2024

• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The senior cats are the most loving and chill.

  If my situation was different I’d probably be fostering multiple cats. Even potentially fostering older cats for the rest of their lives to free up shelter space

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For a while when I was younger, we had an older sheep dog. His name was Odin. He worked on sheep stations until he was about 16, but he evidently was starting to slow down and become less active, so the farmer dumped him on the side of the road. He got caught in a razor wire fence and was rescued by the RSPCA. Nobody wanted “an old dog”, so he was due to be put down the next day. Mum saw a Facebook listing and we drove up to Ballarat to save him. He was free

    He was a happy guy. Used to kick a lot in his sleep, probably dreaming of the sheepies. He also used to try and herd little dogs up at the dog park which was always funny (he was never aggressive and seldom barked). He made it another 5 years, but he developed some nasty hip issues that kept coming back after 2 separate operations (I’m not too sure on the specifics) and was in a lot of pain. Prior to that though, he never had any health issues and was a good mate. Would get him again no hesitation

    Unfortunately this is the best photo I have:

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      He looks like a good boy

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fostering sounds good. :)

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m up in the air about it right now, I’d want my health to be stable and not live somewhere rough

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