Thursday

Love for Sale

Poor Yuma. She is not happy in our home anymore. After Zeke went she started biting herself. We thought it was fleas. Then Wyatt left and she started biting more. And since Harley has gone she's fallen apart. She is stressed out and confused. Maasen took her to a vet tech friend of hers and she gave us several options for why Yuma is biting herself. One of her suggestions was that Yuma still smells Zeke, Wyatt and Harley and thinks they're just going to show up sometime. Since we noticed Yuma biting herself more when Tom went to Guatemala and when we were in Branson and while Maasen was in Michigan we think that points to her biting herself because the boys and Hars are gone.
Therefor we are looking for a new home for Yuma. She is brilliant and sweet and very well behaved. Ask anyone. She needs a new home where she doesn't have any triggers of her old life.  As a dog she has no way to deal with the stress and sadness, so she bites herself. 

She also has one more "issue". She has a problem with her pancreas which requires us to put medicine on her food. It comes down to $1 a day and I order the medicine online. Once we figured out that issue, a couple years back, she regained a lot of weight and returned to her normal self. Until...
Please, if you are looking for a wonderful, fully trained (she walks in a heal off-leash, stays in the yard without an electric fence or leash, loves people and children of all sizes), beautiful dog, or know someone who does, contact us. In the last year and half this has become one more stress for all of us, and we feel terrible that she is so unhappy. We NEED to find a new home for Yuma. Join the cause.

7 comments:

justjess said...

I'm in...I'll keep my eyes and ears peeled and my praying shoes on!

Lauren Blake said...

this makes me so sad but I know it is the right thing to do.. I am going to miss her too!!!!!
(hopefully someone we know will take her that way we can still see her every once in a while.

Susan said...

I'm going to miss her too!

Tom and Leah said...

Thanks, girls.

I think if someone we knew took her it might be harder on her, just fyi. I'm hoping it will be someone just a little bit removed so she can get on with her life in peace, without wondering when we will come back. Does that make sense?

Megs said...

tears. i love yuma.

bri-bri said...

poor yuma. i'm so sorry to hear this. i hope you are able to find somewhere for her to go.

Carlye said...

Leah, we just want you to know that if we DON'T end up moving back to KC then she has a place here at our house. That is, if you think the degrees of separation are enough to help her recover properly. Anyway, I am having faith that G-d will move us closer, but if He doesn't...well, then...we'd love to love on her.