Fishy

Here’s a tale that could inspire its own Hollywood movie theme tune and mega hit. It’s about the eyes of the Tiger. Stripey Tiger is a four-year-old Mastiff x who needed several rounds of surgery for cherry eye — a prolapse of the third eyelid gland — when he came into our care, and then spent time in foster care recovering. Some people are put off by giant breeds, but Tiger’s special people had experience of large breed dogs and had plenty of room in their hearts for this big boy.

Pluto came to our Hobart Home in April as a skeletal stray who staff described as “very close to death”. You could see all his ribs, every ridge of his spine, and his hipbones jutted out like old wooden posts on a rotting pier. He was a distressing sight. Even more distressing, on arrival his poo contained fabric and bean bag filling — what lengths was this severely malnourished Great Dane puppy forced go to survive?

Do you remember Elliott? He came to our Hobart Home in a terrible condition after being found wandering the streets. He was starving, smelled bad, and his right eye was painfully infected. But this didn’t break his spirit or dent his capacity to show affection to the strange new humans he found himself with. After extensive vet work, he went off to our adoptions area — and was adopted the same day.