Wagster the Dog

06/03/2022

Here’s a video of Wagster doing his tricks. Good boy, Wagster! Wagster is now available for adoption!

Wagster the dog doing his wonderful tricks!

11/07/2021

October 2, late afternoon. I have it figured out. I’m a smart doggie.

I don’t have to get out of my cage to play. I can play laying down.

Is that chicken talkin' to me?!

11/07/2021

October 2, late afternoon. My foster mom is trying to show me how to play with one of my new toys.

I don’t understand how to play because I can’t stand up.

I’m trying to get out of my crate so I can be close to her.

11/07/2021

October 2, morning. This new place rocks! I woke up with the sun on my face this morning! My foster mom waits on me paw and wagging tail. She sits with me, she worries when I get restless. I get restless when I have to p**p. I don’t like to p**p in my cage. I haven’t said anything, but it hurts my hips and my legs when I p**p and that makes me restless too. When I p*e or p**p, all I have to do is bark and my foster mom cleans me up quick. I like that! She feeds me, she gives me my pills for my pain, she is gentle and kind. I wag my tail for her every time I see her and I see her a lot! I hope she understands that I am saying thank you. I still can’t stand up and I still hurt, but the soft bedding makes it better and I can tell that my foster mom loves me!

11/07/2021

October 1, evening. I can’t believe it, I don’t have to stay at the building any longer. The lady has come back for me and I am put into her car. I try to crawl up and get close to her but that stupid leash is still holding me back. It is getting dark outside. I hope there is a soft bed at the end of this car ride.

We finally come to a stop and the lady gets out of the car and leaves me! I start barking. HEY where are you going? Don’t leave me!

Then I see someone new through the window. She opens the car and, and wait! It is not a new person at all. I know her, she is the nice lady that took me from the side of the scary road. I wag my tail to tell her hello and thank you. The lady that brought me here in the car returns and the lady from the road picks me up and off we go. She takes me to a little house and inside there are no funny smells, no more dogs or cats. The lady that saved me from the road puts me in a new cage, but this cage has a soft bed in it. I wag my tail even more. Finally my dream of a home and a soft bed has come true.

Both ladies do a lot of moving stuff around and take stuff from bags and boxes. Is all this stuff for me? Then they give me toys, soft toys! Can this day get any better? After a while the lady from the road leaves and my new foster mom turns out the lights. It is so quiet and calm here. I go to sleep, I am so happy.

11/07/2021

The new lady is still driving the car. I try to crawl up as close as I can get to the lady but I have a leash around me and I can’t get as close as I want to be.

Then we stop. Are we at my new home? Is there a soft bed waiting for me? A new person comes to the car and I wag my tail a LOT! We are all so happy!

The new person carries me inside a building. It is not a house at all, it is another place that smells funny and I see more dogs and cats. The lady leaves. I wag my tail at the new people. I like to always make new friends. These people are nice and they put me on a table and look at me all over, they move my back legs, it hurts, but I wag my tail at them. I know they do not mean to hurt me.

Then they put me into another cage. I wonder how long I will be in this place? I hope not 7 days like the last place.

11/06/2021

The lady is driving me somewhere and we leave my old cage behind. I hope this is a good thing.

I am unsure of what’s going on at first but the lady is laughing and telling me this is my Freedom Ride so I get happy too!

11/06/2021

October 1, noon. My World Is Changing Today! The nice people that are taking care of me since my accident just woke me up. I was sleeping hard and the lady that is the boss here had to touch me to wake me up. I didn’t hear her talking to me while I was asleep. She told one of the people that she thinks I’m deaf.

They are picking me up and carrying me outside. Happy! Happy! The new lady from yesterday is here! Now they are putting me in the new lady’s car! I am so happy but I am kind of scared at the same time. I wag my tail at the new lady and at the people that have been caring for me because I’m so happy to be out of that cold, dark, hard cage and the sunshine and fresh air feel so good on my nose!

11/06/2021

October 1, morning. I’ve been here for a week now and I’m still hurt and broken and nobody knows what’s wrong with me.

11/06/2021

September 30. Nothing new to report today.

I’ve been in my cage for 6 days now.

My leg still hurts. I still can’t stand up. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.

Yesterday was exciting when that new lady came to see me but nothing exciting today. The people here take care of me and they clean my cage for me. I wag my tail and I sleep.

11/05/2021

September 29, afternoon. Today must be a special day! A new lady is here to see ME! She is nice and she is softly petting my head. I’m wagging my tail for her because I KNOW she is somebody special.

I have not seen her here before, is she coming to take me home? Will she give me a soft bed? Will she make the pain go away so I can stand up and do all my favorite doggie things?

Oh, I see the lady that brings me kibble and I am happy to see her. I love my kibble. But she walks on by and no kibble right now. Maybe later?

Then the new lady leaves. I am sad. This must be how I am going to live the rest of my life.

I am sad but I will keep wagging my tail at the people taking care of me and maybe one of them will see I am a good boy and take me home.

11/05/2021

September 29, morning. Today lots of people are stopping by my cage to look at my hurt leg.

They clean me up and they talk to me but I am still having trouble hearing so I don’t know everything they are saying. They all pet me and I can tell they are kind and trying to help me so I keep wagging my tail. I like wagging my tail at people.

11/05/2021

September 28 afternoon. The kind people who are taking care of me are talking about someone who wants to foster me. I wonder what that means?

11/05/2021

September 28 morning. I have been in this cage for a bunch of days. Nothing has changed. I eat and p*e and p**p and get cleaned up. I wag my tail at everyone I see to let them know I am grateful for their help and that I am happy to see them all. I keep wagging my tail hoping someone will take me home and love me.

I wish my cage was more comfortable. Maybe a home with a soft bed.

I wonder what my friends are doing? I wonder if they miss me? I miss them. I miss romping and playing with my friends.

Is this going to be my life forever?

11/05/2021

September 27. Today is the same as yesterday. The same lady feeds me and I wag my tail to thank her. People pet me and they clean me and they clean my cage and I wag my tail to thank them.

I hurt and I still can’t stand up. There’s no reason to stand up anyway because there isn’t any place to walk.

I will sleep some more.

11/05/2021

September 26. Today is just like yesterday. People walk by my cage and I wag my tail. A nice lady brings me kibble. It’s the same lady that gave me kibble yesterday and I wag my tail to tell her thank you. I still hurt. I still can’t stand up and people have to clean my cage every time I p*e and p**p. I wag my tail to thank them. I am sleepy so I think I will sleep some more.

11/03/2021

September 26. Today is just like yesterday. People walk by my cage and I wag my tail. A nice lady brings me kibble. It’s the same lady that gave me kibble yesterday and I wag my tail to tell her thank you.

I still hurt. I still can’t stand up and people have to clean my cage every time I p*e and p**p. I wag my tail to thank them. I am sleepy so I think I will sleep some more.

11/03/2021

Here is a new picture of me. There is a number on my picture. I hope they find my name. If they can’t find my name I hope they give me a new one because that means that they love me and want to keep me.

But maybe dogs that are hurt don’t get a name? I don’t know what’s going to happen to me because I’m just lying in this cage with nothing to do. Looking out of my cage I can see other hurt dogs. I feel pretty alone in here.

11/03/2021

People walk past my cage and I wag my tail at them. A lady stops and gives me water and kibble! Another lady gives me pills for my pain. I make a mess in my cage and the newspaper is wet and I don’t like it. People come and clean me up and give me dry newspaper to lay on so I wag my tail to thank them because I really do not like a messy cage.

11/03/2021

September 25. It’s morning. I wake up in a cage. It smells like lots of dogs and cats. There are other strange smells I have never smelled before. I still hurt but not as bad as I did yesterday. I still can’t stand up. I wonder what’s wrong with me?

I remember last night after I got here. They put water in me with a needle and a tube and they fed me some dinner. The sharp needle hurt but I let them do it because I think they are trying to help me.

10/30/2021

Friday night, September 24. The people at the new place took this picture of me. Not my best moment I guess. I was lying out on that terrible highway for a long time and I’m still so thirsty.

I have been in some fights and if you look closely you can see a big hole in my leg from where a dog bit me. I have another hole all the way through my right ear but you can’t see it in this picture.

I’m so tired and it’s time for bed.

10/30/2021

I’m in the lady’s car and she is taking me somewhere. It’s a place where there are lots of other dogs and cats.

It was so hot out on the road and I am so thirsty. I stayed out on the road a long time.

The nice lady is gone now. I wonder if she will come back to visit me?

10/30/2021

I think the lady is going to help me! She is picking me up! The nice lady is taking me to her car!

One man is walking beside me, and the other man is making sure people on the busy highway see us!

10/30/2021

Friday evening, September 24. The sun is starting to go down. I’ve been out here all day. I’m so tired.

Suddenly here is a lady in front of me! I am so happy to see her and I’m wagging my tail at her. Does she see my happy tail? I hope so! She is reaching over to me slowly and she is stroking my head. This makes me wag my tail even more! Oh please see my happy tail!

Two men are here now and the lady is talking to them. Are the men going to help me? I can’t hear what they were saying because everything is muffled in my ears. Are they talking about me? Are they going to help me?

10/29/2021

My name is Wagster and I have a story to tell. Recently I found myself in a lot of trouble.

Friday, September 24: Today I wandered onto a big busy road. Cars are going by me so fast and they are all around me. I am scared and this doesn’t seem right but I don’t see an easy way off of this big road.

BANG! Suddenly there’s a terrible pain in my hip and legs and I am landed up against a hard, concrete wall. What happened? I hurt so bad and I am so scared. I try to stand up, but the pain is awful and I can’t move my back legs and I keep falling over.

I guess I’ll just lay up against the concrete wall because I can’t walk. I’m laying here and I don’t know what to do. How am I going to get to someplace safe?

The cars are going by so fast. Nobody sees me. Nobody is stopping to help me. I’ve been out here for so long and I’m getting so tired and thirsty. I think I’ll close my eyes for a while.