{"id":28269,"date":"2012-04-05T20:44:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T00:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=28269"},"modified":"2012-04-05T20:44:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T00:44:59","slug":"pets-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/pets-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Maralyn's Pet Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Iggy Ginger
\nItalian Greyhounds are often very prone to breaking their legs but my foster mom thought I was a sturdy girl and she wouldn\u2019t have to worry about me. Well it is very possible I had a calcium or Vitamin D deficiency. You see, I was surrendered because I didn\u2019t take very good care of my first litter of puppies and they all died.
\nMy foster mom wonders if I had a problem giving them milk. Anyway, I was in my new home for only a few days when I jumped off the doggie couch and my leg just broke. I didn\u2019t jump fast and I didn\u2019t slip or anything. Really! I promise! It just broke. Then, after a few weeks, I ran down some steps and landed wrong and the other leg broke. I didn\u2019t fall funny or slip again and that silly leg just broke, too.
\nIt has been a lot of work for the humans to take care of me after that. I had to be kept really calm and most of the time I had to be in my \u201cjail\u201d. Since my legs hurt a little, I didn\u2019t mind it too much. But I did have plenty time to worry about where the nice rescue people are going to get all that money to pay for my surgeries. Hopefully some people who will feel sorry for a poor little broken Iggy will read this and want to help.
\nI am not sure when I will be ready for adoption. If you check back in August, I can post an update on how I am doing.
\nIf you think you are interested in adopting me, make sure you take some time to research Italian greyhounds so you know about us. Also, since I am from a puppy mill, I am really afraid of any new humans so I will not be the right dog for some people. My foster mom is working with me to try and get me to at least trust her so that she can pick me up without me running away from her. I can let you how I do with that in my next update. If you think of any questions you want to ask, you can email julemson@wmol.com<\/a>.
\nUpdate:<\/strong>
\nSee me run! I am healed and healthy and don\u2019t have to be on \u201clock down\u201d now because my bones are strong and my muscles have developed well enough to help my bones stay intact.
\nI am ready for adoption physically. However, my trust of humans isn\u2019t quite there yet. I do jump up on the couch to be near my foster mom. I watch all the other dogs getting attention and they like it so sometimes I am really brave and mimic them by letting foster mom touch me and pet me. Sometimes she even captures me and holds me like a baby in her arms and I really do like that but I can\u2019t be sure about letting her catch me so I still run from her.
\nWe have a nice fenced in yard here and I go outside and come in with the other dogs. There are some other doors to outside but there are gates in front of them so that I don\u2019t have a chance to run out them. If I got outside, I would probably run and run and never let anyone catch me.
\nIf you really want to adopt me, you will have to be a very, very patient person. It is going to take a long time for me to learn to trust humans. Whenever strange humans come over to visit my foster mom, I am really scared of them and I don\u2019t let them come any closer than a few feet away before I get all nervous and have to run away. I might be okay with a couple of humans in a home but if there are a lot of them, I will probably hide all the time for a long time.
\nI know don\u2019t sound like a very good adoption candidate, but my foster mom is hoping that with time, I will learn to not have this terror of humans. I wish I had grown up in a real home rather than a puppy mill because then I probably wouldn\u2019t be such a scardy cat.
\n\"\"
\nBreed: Italian Greyhound
\nDOB: 2008
\nSex: Spayed female
\nWeight: 14 pounds
\nFoster home: Linda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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