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My husband found a female beagle that someone dumped at his business. We got her on a Monday morning and took her to beagle rescue that Friday morning. We had her less than a week.
In that time, my purebred Sheltie just kind of shut down on me! He didn't want to go outside (beagle was kept outside on the back porch with free run of the backyard), didn't want to eat (and we call him the vacuum cleaner because he LOVES to eat) and wouldn't come out of the bedroom. It was really bad.
Just in the last couple or 3 days has he been my normal Scotty boy.
Now. A couple weeks before the beagle showed up, we got a foster sheltie. Little guy. Male. Neutered immediately upon arrival. Scotty wasn't thrilled with him but tolerated him for the 10 days or so that we had him.
JUST NOW I was reading about a thread about smell. I'm wondering if the reason Scotty was so upset was the beagle's smell. I didn't take her to the groomers but I did take the little foster sheltie. He needed it badly, the little beagle didn't. In my opinion.
Could it be that the smell was the whole issue with Scotty? I seem to remember that he wasn't too thrilled with the foster sheltie until the next day when he'd been to the groomer. Same smell he was used to since that's where he goes?
This is important for us to figure out. We've been asked to foster another girl but she's a sheltie. I don't want another disaster on my hands.
Any and all suggestions/ideas/thoughts much appreciated.
In that time, my purebred Sheltie just kind of shut down on me! He didn't want to go outside (beagle was kept outside on the back porch with free run of the backyard), didn't want to eat (and we call him the vacuum cleaner because he LOVES to eat) and wouldn't come out of the bedroom. It was really bad.
Just in the last couple or 3 days has he been my normal Scotty boy.
Now. A couple weeks before the beagle showed up, we got a foster sheltie. Little guy. Male. Neutered immediately upon arrival. Scotty wasn't thrilled with him but tolerated him for the 10 days or so that we had him.
JUST NOW I was reading about a thread about smell. I'm wondering if the reason Scotty was so upset was the beagle's smell. I didn't take her to the groomers but I did take the little foster sheltie. He needed it badly, the little beagle didn't. In my opinion.
Could it be that the smell was the whole issue with Scotty? I seem to remember that he wasn't too thrilled with the foster sheltie until the next day when he'd been to the groomer. Same smell he was used to since that's where he goes?
This is important for us to figure out. We've been asked to foster another girl but she's a sheltie. I don't want another disaster on my hands.
Any and all suggestions/ideas/thoughts much appreciated.