01/21/02 - Max has a home with Mary who rescued him. After some time with her, she decided this old guy is better off staying with her.

Original Story 12/23/01 - Max was12 born in 1986. He was taken into his first rehome at about 3. By the simple device of standing outside a market..".free to first good home" technique..Now at 12 his owners decided that he was too OLD to play with and told this to the grooming folk he went into. The groomer bless their hearts simply with no questions asked took Max in just to keep him out of the humane society and off the streets. All was well for about two weeks. Max came down to the groomer store almost on a daily basis and became the "store" dog greeting folks or not as he saw fit. Than the resident bitch Bulldog at Tammy's took acceptation to Max. After two small but potentially dangerous incidents of aggression Tammy realized she had a time bomb waiting to happen. She called a friend who owned a Beardie and the next thing I knew I was talking with Tammy on the phone and arranging a look see If he's not all Beardie he is pretty darn close. He has been to my vet and been totally gone over and brought up to date on shots the last record being 1996. He has been put on Heartworm. Currently he is on Rymidal. He was put on Rymidal because Tammy's house had extensive hard wood floors and they were hard on him. I'm keeping him on Rymidal because I have extensive stairs. I hope down the line with added doses of Chondrotin, Glucosomine, Yucca, Vit C and Sea Meal, plus some exercise we can eventually slide him off the Rymidal at least for a while longer. I did have a full blood panel done on him and apparently there is NOTHING wrong with this dog. He has a creaky old bark and tends to guard a bone. He has offered and tried hard to play with my boys doing his best to play bow and get involved...but than has to sit down and simply watch as he can't quite keep up. He has handled so far my multiple stairs and is a perfect gentleman. Not one mistake or offered mistake in the house and has figured out the doggie door. He crates for meals and at night...the rest of the time he has the run of the house (including my big Orientals on the floor) He craves human companionship and sleeps a lot quietly and now quite peacefully .

Mary Lott marylott@earthlink.net