Syrus

My wife received a call from AZ Schnauzer Rescue that the pound had a schnauzer on the kill list for the day and asked she could pick him up.
He was a pure white mini-schnauzer and probably about 9 years old, but still had a puppy face.

Since he was an "unknown", our kids named him Syrus.

That evening I put Syrus in the bathtub and washed him down with a good shampooing to get the dog pound smell off him.
As I was rinsing him off I thought "hey what is that dark thing in the water?" I grabbed it to look at it and WOAH! TICK!! At that point I checked out and called my wife in to do the rest of the dirty work. :-)
After the bath she did a search on him and found several more ticks, ticks in the bedding he had been using that day and on the walls in the room where he was. Since this was our first experience with ticks we called AZ Schnauzer Rescue for help and she gave us all the tips and "how to's". The entire evening was spent in tick eradication.


Other than the ticks, this guy had some other health issues as well. His poor teeth were in terrible shape, dark brown and decayed. Several of them had to be removed by the vet.
He also didn't seem to feel well as he spent most of his time resting.


We didn't have Syrus for long... maybe a week or two and then he was moved to a new foster home since we had 3 dogs at home with him.

We heard from AZ Schnauzer Rescue that he was later adopted to a good family.