Meet Lincoln

A new dog will be joining our household this coming weekend.  We have been totally consumed by work for the last few weeks, hence the delay in getting a new foster dog.  Still, when one like Lincoln comes along, I can't resist helping him.

Lincoln is in dire condition.  He was actually pulled from a shelter in Irving, Texas, by our rescue on the date of his scheduled euthanasia.  That was about a month ago.  He was a stray, clearly living on his own for a very long time.  He has been staying at a veterinary clinic down in Texarkana, getting constant medical care.  Unfortunately, he just isn't responding the way everyone had hoped.  He is just too depressed there.  He curls up in the drain of the kennel floor and sleeps there all day.  The vet has decided that he may do better in a home environment.  Sometimes, mental health needs to improve before physical health can.  In other words, Lincoln needs the will to live.  I am hoping that we can give that to him. 

He has a severe case of demodectic mange (totally non-contagious to humans and other animals).  He is also extremely underweight and has an injured back leg.  This is what becomes of abandon dogs.  People that think that they can "set them free" when they don't want them anymore are so very wrong.  Dogs are not wild animals and have very little chance of survival on their own.