Something I learned this weekend:

For maintenance purposes, a dog’s daily water consumption can be calculated by:

water consumption = 60 ml water / kg of body weight

(1 pounds = 0.45359237 kilograms, 35 lb = 15.8757 kg)

A 35 lb dog requires 952.5 ml of water a day.  That’s roughly 1 Liter, or 32 fl oz (US).

Meet the latest member of the family: Audrey.
She’s about 7 months old, born in August 2008. We adopted her today, January 19, 2009 from Forever Friends, the same rescue where Jill adopted Pekoe in 2005.

We think she’s an Aussie/Saluki mix. And she’s probably going to be BIG. (right now she weights more than Hoover, which is 40 pounds).

more photos to come!

With 1,829 adoptions to date this year, the Fayetteville Animal Shelter has hit a record high in adoptions.  To celebrate the shelter will be holding an adopt-A-Thon on Friday, November 14th and Saturday, November 15th.  The shelter will be open extended hours until 8p.m. on both days.  The shelter will also have cats and dogs available for adoption at the Fayetteville PetSmart location on Friday from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.  Adopters will receive starter kits for their adopted pets including Hill’s Science Diet food, shampoo, stain remover, training DVD, and coupons for pet supplies.

“We’re really happy about the great homes our pets have found this year,” said Jill Hatfield, Animal Services Superintendent.  “This time of year is always very busy so we wanted to stay open later to give people more time to make the right match.  Adopting a new pet is a big decision that the whole family needs to be involved in,” she added.

Currently the shelter has several litters of puppies and kittens along with adult dogs and cats looking for new homes.  Many of the dogs available are purebred and small breed dogs.

The $60 adoption fee includes the spay/neuter, microchip, rabies vaccination, booster shot, flea & tick prevention, dewormer, city license for the first year, and heartworm test for dogs, feline leukemia test for cats.

For more information call 444-3456 or go online to view adoptable pets at www.fayettevilleanimals.petfinder.com

While we were away in Vegas, Hoover and Buck stayed at Camp Dede.

Here’s some cute photos from their visit:

We went to the open-house of the renovated Fayetteville Animal Shelter on Saturday.  It looks great !

We knew we were in trouble when we came across this little guy:

He’s about 7-8 months old, and we’re thinking he’s an Australian Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog.

Here’s the pup with Hoover:

He’s such a sweet little guy.  His butt looks like a deer’s butt with that cute little tail, and he prances around like a baby deer.

We’re currently fostering him until we decide if he’s compatible with Hoover.

Sadly, Hoover pounced him Sunday morning.  I broke the two of them apart, and they immediately started playing around together.   Then the wound appeared on his head, and a 2 inch gash opened up (not bleeding), but exposing the muscle and skull.

5 hours and $400 dollars later he was patched up at the Emergency Vet.

So, we’re going to have to keep a very close eye on the two of them, and not allow any unsupervised play or interaction.

Yesterday, Hoover let him eat some of his food, before he finished eating.  That’s a big deal.  But later smacked him again.  sigh.

Our trainer is coming Thursday to evaluate the situation, and we’re going to have to work hard at training them if we decide to keep him.

Meet the newest member of the family.  We saw him Saturday at Petsmart (he was there from the Fayetteville Animal Shelter), and fell for him.  Jill filled out the paperwork Monday, and we were approved.  We’re picking him up Friday, getting him groomed, and then checked out by our vet.

He was named “Charles” by the people at the animal shelter.  We’re still trying to figure out what we’ll call him.  (But I kinda like “Charles”, and Jill nixed “Nigel” as being too British).  We think he’s part Border Collie, and part Lab.  1 year old.