I finally had a day off to take all the dogs down to the canyon and let them romp away from mainstream. I wanted Zeke and Sammy to get some exercise and see how Sadie was doing. She's back to running again and looks fine, and even Minnie, who had been hacking yesterday evening, seems better. We think she had a wood splinter or cactus thorn caught in her throat.
We walked downhill rather than upstream. There was a target shooter uphill who had startled the dogs and the dogs started barking, so I did an aboutface and walked the other way, far enough to get down to where homes were along the creek. This also means being closer to other people and their pets, and farther away from a water source. The oaktrees here were badly burned and haven't had new growth come up. Broken asphalt from old roads now line the creekbed. The damage after the fire here was massive, and there are still signs of that destruction.
When I heard a dog bark, I turned around again and took the dogs back to the car. They all were panting hard, especially Minnie, and she was no longer hacking. Maybe she needed to run hard to expel whatever foreign object in her throat?
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It was nice to take time away from the animal shelter and focus on my own dogs. I can't save all the dogs, but perhaps promoting the Facebook page will help get the word out that there are great animals in need of new homes.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-the-Huachuca-City-Animal-Shelter/134920913341965
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