badger
March 15th, 2009, 07:34 PM
This is Haole (pronounced Howlie, which means roughly 'white man' or more broadly 'stranger', correct me if I'm wrong), who was apparently rescued from the countryside on Molokai. I saw a few strays, who generally manage to survive by hunting. Anyway, Haole has a mother, but he seemed to prefer us, for the food and the lovin' (don't think he got much lovin'), although he continued to hunt, tiny mice, other mammals, I imagine lizards. Even for his breed - which is what? very delicate, as you can see - he was a bit thin, his feet all cracked from travelling around the neighbourhood and stained by the red earth they have there (which is indelible, a dye that needs no fixative), badly in need of worming and there were a few fleas on him, normal given his life.
He loved being a house cat, slept with my sister and her husband; one morning my sister found a huge quantity of bird feathers neatly deposited in the bathroom; no guts, no beak, just feathers. Looked like a mynah, they are everywhere.
Anyway, my sister and I are going to get together some meds for him and this woman's other rescues (there are four). They really should be wormed every 3 months and de-flead occasionally. I noticed lots of OTC pet meds in the grocery store, pretty useless.
There is a tiny Humane Society, a shack with a shipping container adjoining, stranded in the middle of a field. Vets come over from the Big Island (Oahu?) every few months and hold free spay/neuter clinics for dogs and cats. We saw a lot of dogs staked in yards, bored out of their skulls, some angry, beat-up pitbulls, probably 'guard' dogs. I never saw a dog on a leash.
He loved being a house cat, slept with my sister and her husband; one morning my sister found a huge quantity of bird feathers neatly deposited in the bathroom; no guts, no beak, just feathers. Looked like a mynah, they are everywhere.
Anyway, my sister and I are going to get together some meds for him and this woman's other rescues (there are four). They really should be wormed every 3 months and de-flead occasionally. I noticed lots of OTC pet meds in the grocery store, pretty useless.
There is a tiny Humane Society, a shack with a shipping container adjoining, stranded in the middle of a field. Vets come over from the Big Island (Oahu?) every few months and hold free spay/neuter clinics for dogs and cats. We saw a lot of dogs staked in yards, bored out of their skulls, some angry, beat-up pitbulls, probably 'guard' dogs. I never saw a dog on a leash.