Sir Baby Flop that we got from his litter family. He is the one in middle with the white / black dot on the top.
Sir Flop aka Harley, is a Coonhound cross that @kiki_sparks and I both got just before COVID started on January 18th 2020.
We are his fourth family after he went through being kept in a crate for 90% of the time with his first two and they couldn’t handle the barking. The third one he was abused and chased around by the husband of the family when the wife was away on a work trip.
After which they contacted my spouces(@kiki_sparks) mother to see if we could re-home him. Obviously that never happened though because he stole our hearts.
This is the first photo we got of Sir Flop when we were asked if we wanted to take him to re-home.
When we first got him, he was scared of nearly everything because of his past abuse, but he sure liked to be wrapped in blankets for extra comforts.
We had quite a time trying to help him through all of that he was scared of. We had to use a soft muzzle and even a shock collar, but with the shock collar, we didn’t use the shock part and instead kept it to the vibration and beep, which worked well for us.
We found that he quite enjoyed choomping on bottles and bones so that was one way we could use to entertain him.
It was quite a learning process for the both of us. We’ve both had dogs in the past, but not one that was neglected to this point and that had so many ‘issues’ that we had to help correct.
It was a little more difficult because we got him just around the one year mark which makes it more difficult to train.
He had to even follow us both to the bathroom because of his seperation anxiety.
We knew from the beggining that he was quite the quirky dog though.
We found out a six months or so into owning him that he has allergies because he was constantly having blood poops, an upset tummy and skin issues.
We had to then go through so many different foods, trialling each to find out which one was better.
We ended up finding what turned out to be a great vet in our area called Coulee Veterinary Clinic and getting him in to see what was going on.
Sir Flop was quite unsure about going to the vet at the time, but he sure warmed up to everyone quickly.
The food that we were recommeded by the vet to help with his allergies.
We managed to go through with the appointment and found out that he was allergic to grass, grains, poultry, pollen and wasps.
The vet recommended that we go on Hill’s Science D/D food to help.
After that it was a whole learning process to make sure he didn’t get into anything that would upset his tummy or his skin.
We ended up finding some shampoo/conditioner, wipes, eye drops, ear cleaner, ear lotion, paw wax. All of which help him with his allergies.
We also have Ear Pros and Rex Specs to help with him getting wind blasted with things blowing around as the winds can exceed 100 km/hr (62 mi/hr), so many things could get into a Sir Huntings eyes / ears.
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