He'd be up for adoption already except he'd gotten such a bad ear mite infection from the puppy mill where he was bred that even once the mites were removed, the ear tissue had suffered so much trauma that hematomas developed, swelling the ear flaps up until it was like there were hard lumps of clay implanted beneath the skin of each ear. So, TAS had to take care of that problem and then there was the recovery period and now, finally, the bandages should be coming off any day now, maybe tomorrow - fingers crossed - and Magoo can finally go into adoption.
And if you think this guy's cute, wait 'til you see his little sister.
The best way to check on the adoption status of this dog (and other dogs and cats and other small domestic animals) is to visit Toronto Animal Services adoption website or call 416 338 6668 for the Toronto Animal Services South shelter. If the dog is no longer on the TAS adoption website, it's probably because it's been adopted already.
OMG -who knew that that bizzaro mix would produce such a cute dog!!! Love him!
ReplyDeleteWhere is the little sister!!!???!!! *drums fingers*
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Hello! If there's any chance of adopting Magoo, I'd like to submit my family to the undoubtably large pile of applications. He's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous (greer.thomas), I edited your comment because I don't want you getting a whole bunch of spam from publishing your email address. The best way to get more info on Magoo is to call TAS South at 416 338 6668. Ask for James if he's available but otherwise the other staff should be able to assist you as well. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteHi Kit, Magoo's sis is coming up but she's got some eye issues which still need resolving so it may be a few days yet.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting her. She's gorgeous!
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ReplyDeleteMy friend has been sharing Penny and Magoo...and I am completely in love with them both. Unfortunately my condo has a silly dog ban in place so I cannot even foster, let alone adopt, one of these gorgeous dogs. I was fortunate enough (after many years of deliberation) to be able to bring my current dog into my life shortly before the ban took effect so I know how great an impact (positive, at that!) a dog can have on one's life. I will continue to share these photos so someone else can know this joy.
On a different note, I was wondering whether you are the photographer working on getting these dogs out there. If you are, please let me compliment you on the photos! I'd love to see an entry on how you got involved as a volunteer in this capacity, here or elsewhere. I'm also in Toronto, with a burgeoning interest in pet photography as a hobby. I've noticed a lot of local professionals started with, or donated their time subsequently to helping shelter animals, but I'm never clear as to whether they did something else first or just showed up one day, camera in hand, and said "hey...I'd love to get your dogs out there!"
Since I cannot adopt or foster right now, I'd like to help in other ways and figured this way would be a good start.
I'm glad you like the photos. Yes, I'm the photographer. I started as a typical volunteer walking the dogs, etc. but started photographing them when I noticed their adoption pics online weren't very good. Afterward, I offered the pics to TAS for the site and they accepted. It's been like that ever since.
ReplyDeleteI think most of the pro photogs volunteering at the shelters basically just showed up with camera in hand. I know TAS-N has a really good photographer up there. I'm not sure what the status is at TAS-W and TAS-E. But even if the dogs have all their photographs covered, there will always be loads of cats to take pictures of.
Just an FYI, Magoo is now 6 and loving life. He roams the city of Calgary and plays in the mountains too.
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