6/3/2024:  Sweet Buster has settled in well to his foster home. At first, we thought all the big dogs here overwhelmed him. Nope! He can run with the pack. He plays and plays and plays with all of them, including one three times his size. As much as he likes to play, he’s also happy to snuggle up in your lap for snuggles. He loves to follow around his humans and lives for snacks.  Buster has scoliosis, or a curved spine. He has an extra vertebra in one part of his spine and is short one in another part of it. This is due to genetics, according to the vet. This impacts his back legs somewhat, making him a bit clumsy. It also causes one side of his rib cage to be slightly longer than the other, which sometimes makes his left side/abdomen appear to jut out a bit. He doesn’t let any of this slow him down though! When he starts running fast, he just hops like a bunny. The vet said it shouldn’t get worse, though he may develop arthritis later in life. Buster just finished a round of antibiotics for a nasty UTI, and we’re working on housetraining now. He gets neutered in a few weeks.

5/19/2024: Meet Buster, a little dude with a big personality. He is some combination of Pug/Frenchie/Boxer…. who knows! But with his smushed face and tiny snorts, he’s 100% adorable. He weighs in at 25 lbs. and is full grown. Buster has something going on with his back legs and what feels like a mass or swelling on the left side of his abdomen. We’ll get him checked out at the vet this week.  Buster likes to play with the other pups but gets a little overwhelmed because of his size in the pack of four big dogs in his foster home. He does best with just a few at a time or with the most passive of the pack. He prefers not to share his food or high value toys but otherwise is great with males and female dogs.