This is the story of my 3,5 year old bitch Jay.
I found her when she was not even two months old, on vacation in the Ukraine wandering about and crying beside a dustbin or rather a heap of rubbish. From her behaviour and her stature I concluded that she had been separated not long ago and on the same time too early from her mother, what could be confirmed to me that very same day by an accidental meeting with a veterinarian in a shop. At that time the little Jay was quite only about 6 weeks old! She was so round and tiny and with her gigantic standing ears she looked fantastic! Thus I tore her to myself and took her in spite of dog ban in the sanitarium where I held her up to my departure on exits always hidden in my bag or a towel. She was not even able to have feed or never mind liquid, so I had to feed her the first times with my finger and drip her liquid in the little mouth. Because in the remote village also dog food was nowhere to be found, I smuggled my Jay as mentioned always in a towel wrapped in the dining room and fed her there on my lap. Later I found out that somebody had thrown three little dog babies simply in a pit and abandoned them the blazing midday sun! Some completely brainless people had separated them then (!!!) and got them somewhere "to safety"! It remains a mistery to me how someone can see a heap of rubbish as a safe place for a little dog puppy where she was so small besides, that someone could have overlooked her with ease and just could have crush her... Both other puppies found accomodation luckily likewise with two nice families - otherwise I would also have taken them with me. So I took my little Jay according to a thorough veterinary investigation and a valid dog passport with to Austria. Now here she leads a nice, cheerful life and pleases my boyfriend and me every day of life!
From my gerbils Siam and Dark(ness) which, by the way, always sleep in 69th style!
Some years before I already had once a single gerbil whom I had got as a gift from a friend at that time. Then I hardly knew something about gerbils, never mind from the possibility of a socialization. Nevertheless, I gave her together with Jay still rich in employment, nice days in all her life in a big guinea pig's cage. About one year after her death I got by chance again to a gerbil, because the couple of another friend had got younger generation and she still had to accommodate a male young animal somewhere. Because "Dracula" was still so young, I thought that I buy another young animal for socialization to him in addition. However, this undertaking remained also after numerous attempts unsuccessful. Now I had to postbuy for the new bought Siam a new mouse for society! Luckily in the pet shop, where I had bought Siam, there still were several animals from the same litter. So Siam knew the new Darkness already and there were no problems to put the both together. Dracula found soon afterwards at the place of my good friend Psy a new home.
