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Likes: Riding in mom's car and going places!!! Espcially the doggy park to meet my admiring public.
Pet-Peeves: having my nails cut!
Favorite Toy: no favourites, I ignore them all
Favorite Food: ANYthing you're eating - favourite is TOFU or broccoli or steak
Favorite Walk: Around the 'hood to the private doggy park where I hang with my buds
Best Tricks: Tricks? I don't lower myself to that level
Arrival Story: Barney's #1 mom was forced to surrender him because of a very premature human baby coming in the house. He was about to be sent to the pound at 10 years of age!! I got an urgent call from out Cairn Terrier Club rescue coordinator and went and picked him up. It was very sad. His grandpa drove over from his ranch to bring Barney a whole big bag of biscuit treats to take with him. Barney had massive allergies when he first arrived. We were given a wonderful creame, Traumeel, and we used that 6 times a day and fed him Solid Gold dog food. Within 2 tweeks, his hair was growing back nicely. However, the psychological rauma took a bit longer to heal. He wouldn't come to anyone in the house. He just stood by the fireplace and counted carpet fibres. Then , one day he hopped up into my husband's lap and that was that.
We also fostered dogs. By the time the fourth, a very assertive Dandie Dinmont turned up in our home, Barney was not a happy camper. He lost his house training, so we called in an animal communicator that a friend recommended. That Dandie tried to butt in, but the communicator reached Barney and he asked me to not take on any more fosters as he wasn't sure if he would be leaving next and he didn't want to go to a THIRD home. THIRD??? His first mom, me and???? After the session, it hit me. Barney's first mom told me that she had bought him from a pet store when he was 8 months old! I'd forgotten all about it but apparently it was a traumatic beginning for poor Barney-Boy. But Barney is in his forever home with me.... his special mom.
Bio: When Barney arrived in our home, he had a sister Cairn Terrier, Sophie(aka G.B. Sophia's Rainbow), A Golden Retriever mix, Nugget, and a wee little 5-lb Terrier mix, Willie, who ruled the household. Two years later, Gwen the Scotty came to live from Barney's beloved Auntie Noelle's house.
In the summer of 2003, Barney developed a spindle-cell tumour on his right rear leg. When his vet tried to take it off, Barney's heart stopped when they administered the anesthesia. They brought him back around and recommended that we take him to the Veterinary College at the University of California at Davis. It was 8 days before we could get an appointment. That thing grew by 50% in that time. They had to take Barney's leg as the tumour had attached itself in that week. They biopsied the tumour and there were cancer cells in it, but they did a thorough examination and no cancer cells had metastasized. So well over a year later, Barney is still here and getting younger almost every day. Losing a leg has NOT slowed him down in the slightest. NOTE: the picture is of Barney and his student vet who was a wonderful guy. They all took such good care of him at UC-Davis Veterinary Clinic.
The second biggest upheaval in Barney's life came Christmas of 2003. His daddy, my husband, walked out on us to move in with his girlfriend, my (former) friend, Donna Townsend, who we had helped out after she lost her job. Daddy was back to drinking heavily and Donna took advantage of that to write checks on his account and did other bad stuff. But because he was drunk most of the time, he didnât prosecute. Barney hated her from the first time he met her and let everyone know just how he felt. I just didn't read his 'language' of peeing on anything that was hers. ANYONE I meet now will be subjected to the 'Barney-Scan'. Barney has excellent judgment of character. We were both betrayed by the man we thought loved us and we had trusted.
We wound up moving to Las Vegas, where my daughter, and the light of Barney's eye and heart, brought us to be closer to her. It's a VERY nice place and Barney has flourished. He has not had ANY itchies like he did in San Jose. Las Vegas does not have any fleas! (do you suppose they are all in the casino's, gambling?) He loves to hang out with his new friends in our doggy park as well as go on walks around the neighbourhood.
His special treat is to go up to his 'Aunt' Noelle's house and play with Colin and Maggie Scotties who are also his 'sister' Gwen's blood brother and sister, so that makes them cousins and good companions. NOTE: Gwen and Colin went to the Bridge within 6 weeks of each other in Spring of 2007. Now that Barney is at the Bridge too, they are together again.
Forums Motto: Life is romp in the park
The Groups I'm In: Cairn Talk, Christian Cats and Dogs. WE LOVE JESUS, Critters Care Through Prayer, light a candle...., Terriers of Scotland, ~~Scottish Terriers Bridge Brigade~~
Therapy Dog: Barney LOVES to attend cancer support group. He often makes it easier for new members to cry when they need to. He instictively moves to the members who need him the most. His very favourite member is a 'wise elder' woman. When she comes in the door, Barney 'lights up' with delight. He always listens to the person who is speaking and follows the conversation. If only he had the gift of human speech!
guess it was al those hepful hints I gave him 'bout recoverin' an' all... and of course my darling Dumpling sang him sweet lullabyes to make sure he slept reel gud...
you now can read all about him as he's ready fer a foreber home.... hope he getz a gud one like I got
with my mom.
heheheheheh
MAGIC is at the top of the available for adoption pages....
http://adopt.cairnrescue.com/index.php
but those are his wounded picures I"m gonna hab mom put a more recent pitchur of him on MY page.
Well, I've got my own special boy to watch over now. (HEY! Mairi, you aren't the only one who gets to do this!!!)
He got runned over REEEEEL bad... did some inside damage too. BUT like ALL Cairns, he's a true
fighter and he got those inside stuff to runnin' better.
But they had to take off a leg. Now sum ob da hoomans are feelin' sad about that, but who better than I, Barney, Squirrel Controller Exdrodinaire to let you know dis seecret... CAIRNS CAN RUN FASSER DEN ANY DAWG WIT 3 LEGS!! Yup... isss trooo.
And *I* am gonna be da one whisperin in his ears and in his dreems dat he is just perfeckt and like
me he will live long and propser... did I say dat rite??? jus like *I* did.... and mom... taks fur lettin' me
know.... I will be right there and so will Dumpling... my beautiful sweetheart...
hur jus got nuz dat hur heart dog, Maggie, is goin' to joinin' us all at da Bridge. Maggie wuz sumpin' of a PITA wen we libed wit hur... alwayz had to have tings hur way. BUT I lub Auntie Noelle an' I NO shez gonna miss Maggie a lot so dat makes me sad.
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