It’s official. We’ve been hit by a heat wave.
Unfortunately I’m not just referring to the high temps in Ohio this week.
Remember when I introduced our newest addition, Pepper, the adopted beagle mix?
Well it’s been almost 4 months since that introduction. And we’ve had our share of growing pains.
We think her last family neglected her which left us with some behavioral issues that needed to be tended to. We’ve worked very hard to get her to be friendly with people and other animals, to much success!
However, the last couple of days we started to notice some strange behavior. She was extremely affectionate with Oscar, our male cocker spaniel/cavalier king charles spaniel. These two generally avoid each other like the plague {they have a friendly understanding to leave one another alone}.
At about the same time Wednesday night, BF and I looked at each other and pretty much said the same thing: “Do you think she might be in heat?”
To which we both answered our own question: “There’s no way. Her adoption paperwork from the non-profit assured us she had been spayed.”
But today we learned the truth. Poor little Pepper pup has not been spayed.
And she is most certainly in heat.
Although we should have realized from the massively swollen lady goods, larger-than-life nipples, and oh-so-frequent urination, it took some massive amounts of blood to solidify the truth.
On top of it, we are extremely angry with the adoption agency we used. Had we known she wasn’t fixed, we would have gotten her fixed immediately and avoided the unnecessary drama and expense {$28 for 30 doggy diapers!?! You have GOT to be jokin’ me.}.
So for anyone who has had female dogs, how long with this last? And what should we do about the adoption agency??