UK rescues for disabled pets?

[JaynTinks]

As some of you may know I lost Inca last March aged 15.

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/ ... e=591E07F9

Inca
14/03/2001 - 22/03/2016


It has taken a long time to get over her I'm still not sure I am and have a younger dog also who has kept me going.

I am starting to feel more that I'd like to give an home to a disabled smaller dog, but don't tend to see many advertised. I thought as many dogs are dumped around christmas there maybe one out there.

Does anyone know if there's a UK rescue that seems to particularly help/rescue disabled dogs and who would help with delivery to a disabled owner, unable to drive/travel?

I have experience of deafness, blindness, (and both mixed) and physical disabilities in a dog. I wouldn't be good with anything that needed like regular injections as I have a mild intention tremor due to ataxia which would make accuracy difficult and wouldn't want to be constantly injecting into wrong place (of a diabetic dog for example).

I'd prefer a small dog say about up to the size of a cavalier, certainly no bigger than a cocker spaniel, especially if it had physical disabilities which would require daily lifting and not too sound sensitive as I need to use a mobility scooter to get out daily so there would be the constant noise of the scooter, sometimes i need to use an electric wheelchair indoors too. My dog found the sound of the scooter very useful though when she was going blind and in fact she was so used to following sound of it when out I didn't initially realise she was going blind when she first started developing cataracts, as she knew our walks so well and the sound of the scooter meant she always knew where I was in relation to her and also the terrain I was going over from the sound (It also meant that all our walks were fairly level access, no steps or steep slopes she could fall down as a VI dog.) plus we live in an adapted bungalow thats wide enough to get a powered chair round so also wide enough for a dog to move around in a cart (which she needed in her last few years).

Ideally I'd like the dog to be small enough to ride on scooter footplate so it could hop on if getting tired or us having to cross a very busy road etc, without needing to take a seperate bike trailer out everytime as I did for Inca in her later years, as that will be saved for my existing dog when he gets older as he's around the same size she was. (about 20kg, 23" to shoulder), which is why I'd like any second dog to be much smaller.

[CarolC]

Hi,

I dearly hope you can get one, some dog out there is going to be a Lucky Dog.

Did you try contacting these people? I do not know any groups personally but I found this searching. Surely, surely they can arrange some kind of delivery. They probably do a home visit anyway. If I find another group I will let you know.

https://www.facebook.com/DisabledDogsNe ... esInTheUk/

http://blinddogrescueuk.com/

https://www.lastchanceanimalrescue.co.u ... gesdog.php

http://www.k9-rescue.org.uk/adopt-us/

If you don't see any here, let me know, I can try another search?

[JaynTinks]

Hi

Thanks

Didn't think that had posted this morning! I couldn't get the pic to come up then I just kept getting a spinning circle for ages, had to give up and go get dressed and take JJ out!

I'll go check out those links.

Thanks


Kati