Animal, vegetable or mineral?

A sultana can be a small shrivelled grape (personally what I consider a shameful waste of a good white wine ingredient) or the wife of a sultan. It is also the name of this appealing Rescue dog. I think the people who abandoned him are more like shrivelled grapes.

Nap time

It's nap time at the kennels; either that or Tulip has passed out from sniffing another dog's feet. Meanwhile, two siblings dream of a hot tub full of treats rather than water...

Ugly Schmuggly!

This cocker is incredibly ugly like some sort of failed experiment of Dr Frankenstein, and yet he is UTTERLY CUTE! He only has two little upturned fangs and a nose that is just, well, WRONG, and yet when his ADORABLE black fluffy paw pats my leg for a cuddle I can't imagine why anyone would have a) neglected and b) abandoned this delightful personality. I can't decide whether the people who abandoned him were mad scientists without consciences or just joyless jerks. It's 50/50.

Stand and deliver!

Coral takes up the whole walkway.
'Stand and deliver the obligatory cheese/liver/chicken treat!'

Hard to believe anyone could have dumped her and her siblings when they were just tiny little puppies. The dumpee must have had a tiny little brain.

Another animal?

This dog is looking a bit nude from the front. From the back though its very short coat but fluffy mane-like head and long tail make it look like a LION! Raar!
It hasn't learnt how to actually roar yet, but male lions generally relax in the sun while their females do all the running about in the hot sun so it's got the stance right.*

It's previous owners deserve to get bad hair cuts too. Preferably mullets.

* The dog is female, so I am using artistic blog license here.

Dogs are great for TICKLING

This is my favourite abandoned min pin again being tickled by moi. He loves it. Heck, he deserves it!

His previous owners do not deserve to be gently tickled in a playful and loving way. They deserve to be crushed in the powerful metal claws of giant mechanical crabs.

HOW???

HOW, I mean HOW could anyone abandon this adorable cling-on dog? It fits snuggly in human arms, doesn't wriggle about, and looks uber cute. It spent a lot of time being carried around yesterday as a big golden retriever decided it was in love with it but the feelings weren't mutual.

Golden Retrievers are innocents!

See this lovely, gentle, innocent GR?

Which is worse?

a) Dumping your family pet of 8 years.

or

b) Spotting a sweet baby that has one leg in a cast and is holding candy and a rattle toy - then deliberately putting on a scary clown mask before racing over and snatching the candy out of the baby's innocent chubby hand - then stamping hard on the rattle so it breaks before the now weeping infant's eyes - then signing the cast 'Life Long Loser' - and then cackling hideously as you run away with your spoils, leaving the infant emotionally scared for life.

That's right, it's a. The golden retriever is being hurt by someone it has KNOWN AND LOVED.

Dogs with addictions need help!

This little white schnauser has a problem. He is an ADDICT.
He is addicted to SNIFFING. He sniffs other dogs, plant pots, humans taking photos...he relentlessly sniffs them all!

This olfactory-crazed sniffing schnauser needs help! He is so addicted that he wouldn't even lift his little head up to pose for a photo! His lilttle doggy nose goes at it all day.

After a day at the kennels one does tend to whiff a bit, but the rotters who adandoned this lively boy STINK!

Dogs can be PATIENT

This dog is PATIENTLY waiting to be let out.

Notice how he is not shoving, barking, jostling, poking, prodding or generally being obnoxious in his desire to get from a (inside the gate) to b (outside the gate).

Now why can't people using public transport systems here be like that? Today I was shoulder wrestled, poked with a bag, hit by another shoulder and jostled just getting to work. Grrrrrrrr.

To calm myself I shall gaze at this handsome fellow's picture. So furrrrrryyyyyyy.

Dogs have PERSONALITY!

Just because a dog is small, it doesn't mean that it won't have a BIG personality. Arfur here knows what he wants:

1. Total domination of the food bowl.

2. A soft towel to frolick with.

3. Your attention please!

See how happy he is right now? He has the food, the attention and he has spotted the fresh towel I am holding!

His previous owners should have bought more towels.

And been less RUBBISH.

On dogs, hairy ears look good

This dog has the FLUFFIEST ears in the kennels. On him, hirsute ears are an asset. On humans, they are very much associated with being hit with the ugly stick. Look at the close-up of his left fluffy ear. Are you not MOVED by the fluff? Are you not at this very moment going 'AaaaaaaahhhHH!' His previous owners probably couldn't concentrate on their everyday lives because they were besotted with the fluff. I'd rather think that was the reason they abandoned him, rather than them being VILE HEARTLESS CHEAPSKATES who didn't want to pay for his operation to remove cysts. No, I'd much rather think it was the fluffiness.

An AWESOME cocker

This is Tarzan, my FAVOURITIST doggeh of all time at the rescue, now adopted by two FINE specimens of humanity. Look at those brown eyes and beautiful reddish-brown coat and the way he is master of his green doggy bed! The people who abandoned Tarzan should be either very slowly eaten by mutant bees or made to watch Oprah Winfrey EVERY WAKING HOUR for the rest of their lives. I cannot decide which is worse.

Latest dumped doggeh goes on lusty rampage

This is Storm. Dogs react in different ways to being dumped. Storm decided to go on a lusty rampage trying to have his way with every dog (male or female) within reach before finally deciding that he was in love with a volunteer's leg. DOGS ARE AWESOME because they ENTERTAIN us with their brilliantly bawdy antics. Thanks Storm!