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06-08-2020
Column: Dogs - R.I.P. RUSTY THE BLUE HEELER CROSS
Column: Dogs - R.I.P. RUSTY THE BLUE HEELER CROSS
I got to know Rusty when volunteering at a shelter; he was a character that grew on me, and the more I got to know him, the more he responded. He had been a street dog, for how long no one knows, but judging by his dislike of being contained and his almost total disinterest towards people, quite a while.
His age was estimated to be about four years old and when he was brought in, he had a bad case of ear mites which was driving him mad. The infestation was treated, yet he was so unresponsive the vets diagnosed him as being deaf. So, we tried giving him hand signals with food rewards which only half worked because it was hard to get him to even look at us. Racing from one end of his pen to the other, hyperexcited, preoccupied and stressed by all the barking and action that surrounded him, he could not get away from it.

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