More on the rehabilitation of the 9 galgos rescued from the House of Horrors
The 4 fearfuls will definitely need to go to an experienced family home or homes and the 5 should eventually settle into adoption with relative ease. However, at some level, they all have a degree of anxiety having been simply left alone without daily contact from humans or any carefully managed experiences of, or introductions to doggy life in the outside world. They have certainly all suffered from incarceration and are now showing signs of trepidation when it comes to forming social bonds. Their past has compromised their welfare and this is very clear in their reduced responsiveness to humans.
Our usual approach was simply not going to work…. Our vets have castrated the males in the group. This operation was an immense escapade from start to finish because the poor dogs were so unsure about human communication and touch. Our usual approach of simply going into the kennel, blowing a couple of kisses, slapping our thigh and calling out in a gentle voice was really not going to work. They did not trust us at all. Try as we might through gentle, baby steps, we could not gain their confidence. Not wanting to overdo the effort and undo all of the good work of the rescue so far, we had to use our humane dog catching equipment to get them safely into our onsite clinic at the
shelter. We were so grateful that the vet was only a few steps away because the poor dogs could not face a journey to a vet surgery.
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