Likes: FOOD Pet-Peeves: having her ears cleaned Favorite Food: Most everything but she really loves eggs. Favorite Walk: Tessa loves to travel around the ranch but at times she has gone several miles away so during the nighttime she stays inside the fenced area. Best Tricks: Bogarting the bed! Arrival Story: A lady bought Tessa as a pup for a guard dog for her farm. Unfortunately, the lady became ill and died a year later. She didn't have much time for Tessa and Tessa was left pretty much to her own devices or on a chain. :-(
We were notified that the farm had many peafowl to be removed and we went with several others to trap them and while there we saw Tessa. She was dirty, covered in stickers and abcesses but it was obvious she just needed much love and good bath.
We asked the son of the lady if the dog could go, too, and he said that no one in their family wanted her so she came home with us. Bio: After we brought Tessa home she slept for nearly three days while I combed her and pulled stickers from her skin. Her coat was thin and rough then. I took her to the vet and she was put on antibiotics for the abcesses (from all of those stickers!)
Tessa weighed 90# and had been surviving on a small amount of cheap dry dog food and whatever peafowl eggs she could find.
We are happy to say she has thrived, become a HUGE lovebug and now weighs 114.9# and is a wonderful girl.
Her only fault was last winter following a deer herd and ending up over six miles from home. We now keep her tags on her all of the time in case she ever decides to do that again. I've Been On Dogster Since: