Hey guys it's Sarah. I know in my last video I promised to do some more curated
content and regular video postings but after making that video a little bit of
chaos entered into our lives and kind of consumed us so I wanted to take some
time to introduce you to it. This is Indigo she is an 11 month old wolf dog
and she is currently our foster. From what we've been able to find out about
Indigo we think that she is about 40% wolf and is an F3 which means that she's
three generations removed from a pure wolf
I want to tell you a little bit of her story.
Indigo came into our lives the day after Mother's Day when I was contacted
by a follower on Instagram. They had been fostering Indigo up until about a
week prior at which point she had been adopted. The adopter had gotten in
touch with them and said that Indigo had been hit by a car not long after going
home with her. Rescue takes a lot of steps. You want to make sure that you
have a reputable organization behind you in order to pay the medical bills,
to make sure that you have a good home in place for the animal and to keep
everything legal and protected for both the people and the animals. So my first
step was to find a rescue that would be willing to take on Indigo. I called my
really good friend Maureen Delaney who's the founder of Delaney's Dog Rescue and
asked if she would be willing to take on a dog that we knew would have some
significant medical bills. I said that I would help with placement because wolf
dogs can be difficult to place. They require experienced owners and someone
to make sure that those owners are ready to take on the responsibilities of
owning one of these animals and have it in a safe environment. She agreed so long
as I did the placement and we went to go pick up Indigo. We raced to go pick up
Indigo to general area where we knew where the
adopter lived but suddenly when it was time to get an exact address
she went out of touch. We weren't able to reach her and we spent the whole day
trying to track her down but ultimately at the end of the day we had to accept
that we weren't gonna get Indigo. We went home brokenhearted knowing that this
animal was in pain was suffering and was likely going to be euthanized. The next
morning while I was at work I got a message with an address and a message to
come pick up Indigo as soon as possible. I wasn't able to leave but her former
foster family left their Mother's Day brunch just to race and go save her. When
they got there they were horrified to see that Indigo had visibly lost weight
she had a dirty dirty bandage on (hi) and her leg was really visibly deformed
after getting all the paperwork signed the adopter asked if the foster family
would be willing to take another dog that she had adopted the same week as
Indigo. We had seen what had happened to dogs in her care so I called Maureen and
asked if she would be willing to take on just one more animal. Her concern was
that this dog wouldn't have a good foster family so the foster family that
was gonna take Indigo back agreed to foster the new dog Riley and we figured
we would get it worked out for Indigo by the time she got out of the vet
we got all the paperwork for Riley and the foster family rushed both Riley and
indigo to Mid Valley veterinary hospital I was able to meet them there and I was
also so taken aback by what I saw. I had only seen Indigo in
photos up to that point and everything I saw had shown her as a really happy
sweet healthy puppy. That wasn't what was in front of me and it was heartbreaking
Our first step was to take x-rays. In the x-rays the leg that we were most
concerned about was the right leg: it had a fractured and dislocated growth plate
that would require surgery. By comparison her left leg didn't look
too bad in the x-rays. She had three fractured metacarpals but it wouldn't
require surgical intervention. However we didn't know what was waiting for us
underneath the bandage. The left leg didn't look too bad
but we knew it was probably gonna be a problem. It smelled really terribly and
was filthy in fact the reason the adopter said that she finally decided to
give Indigo up was because she smelled so bad
we took off the bandage and it was a lot worse than we expected. I do have to warn
you that the following images are graphic. There were maggots eating the
necrotic skin and her foot was completely degloved
the next few days were spent pumping her full of antibiotics and IV fluids trying
to get her healthy enough to beat this infection that very possibly could take
her foot if not her life. Luckily she was young and healthy enough beforehand to
make a recovery and a few days after she came in to the vet we got her into
surgery. They implanted a metal plate to keep the dislocated leg in place and we
opted not to do any surgery on the right leg because it had already been so
traumatized. In the days leading up to surgery I'd visited indigo every day. Her
foster family had also visited and they said that she was a different dog than
when she had left. Before Indigo had been hit by the car she had been a
rambunctious excited happy healthy puppy but afterwards she was so scared at the
vet's office that all she could do was try to find a place to hide and whimper
occasionally I saw little flashes of what she would
become and I often thought that she was going to poop
to be honest because her tail would rise up in a certain way that I
thought was either due to pain or having to go to the bathroom. We now call that
her trouble tail it means she just wants to destroy things. So that's how I know she
was still the same dog just a little more scared. That first day after surgery was
the first time that I visited indigo and saw the puppy that I had been
told about. When she saw me she wagged her tail so hard and she was wearing two
little casts but she hobbled over to me looking like a really sad pirate and
immediately came over for belly rubs. She spent the next hour trying to drag me on
her two little broken legs around the veterinary office and ended up jumping
up knocking down their jar of treats and eating them all a pretty signature
Indigo move. It was at that point that I knew that at least her life was safe. We
still didn't know if her leg would be usable if she would walk again normally
or if she'd ever be able to run but we knew she'd be alive and at that point
that was great During the time that indigo was at the
veterinary hospital I worked frantically to try to find another foster for her
Matt and I have two pitbulls and we're very happy with our little family. We
weren't looking to add any more wolf dogs to our lives until we were ready to
start our sanctuary until we had the land to do so but I also knew that
indigo would require a very special foster someone who knew what a wolfdog
could be someone who was equipped to deal with the difficulties of a wolfdog
and someone who was patient enough to help rehabilitate a traumatized animal
not only had Indigo been hit by a car she had also been rehomed five times in
the first six months of her life Wolves are pack animals, they form very
strong connections to their humans. When you break those initial bonds again and
again it is a very very insecure fearful animal that you leave. So we knew that it
was going to be a lot of work and we tried and tried to find someone up to
the job and that was able to do it but unfortunately we didn't and so we
decided we would foster indigo ourselves we brought her home after three weeks of
being in the vet and the instructions to us were to try to keep her exercise to
five minutes no more than five times a day. We had a big crate for her and a ton
of enrichment and it was great for about two days and then the destruction began
she is a high-energy animal and the cast really didn't slow her down. She got
really good at just walking with the cone and banging it against things not
really letting it bother her and was hobbling around just fine. We had to keep
her in the crate even though she hated it and soon enough she had weaseled her
way onto the bed curled up around my head like an enormous black cat. Indigo
fought a MRSA infection and soon was able to get her second cast off. She has
been recovering steadily ever since. We walk her for miles and miles each day
and still when we get home she's so energetic that we have to play fetch
with her in the backyard for another hour. She loves to play with our two pit
bulls and loves other dogs. She does sometimes play a little too rough for
our two pit bulls so we oftentimes like to take her on
little play dates with other wolfdogs who have a little bit more fur and are a little
bit more used to her level of play. She loves going on hikes going to the beach
and eating. Eating is probably her favorite. She's also
really good at destroying anything that I've ever cared about which is a skill
she adores belly rubs and doesn't have much modesty. We love indigo. She has
filled a hole in our heart that I don't think we really realized was there we
also hope that maybe we filled a little bit of a hole in her heart for her. When
we left New Hampshire we left animals that we had devoted our lives to. Very
specific type of animals with specific needs and specific personalities and
while we love our two pit bulls it just wasn't the same
having indigo has reminded us of our passion of why we're working so hard to
get a sanctuary started and of why we love wolf-dogs. Indigo is still
technically our foster and we'll reevaluate what we think is the best
option for her after puberty but we will be fostering her through puberty. There's
a theory that dogs have a wolf's brain stuck in prepubescence and wolf dogs
really kind of drive that home. Up until puberty wolfdogs are just really
intense dogs that tend to have some behavioral issues but after puberty you
will see a distinct shift. They have their own opinions about things, they do
what they want to do and they're not as interested in pleasing you as an owner
in fact we see a lot of animals come in to rescue around that two-year mark so
we don't know how indigo is going to manifest the trauma that she's
experienced after puberty and we don't feel it would be responsible to put her
into a home until we know exactly what her behavior is going to look
like. If after puberty we decide that she would be best suited in another home we
will happily rehome her but until then she has a home with us
we are very prepared to give her a forever home. Whatever the outcome may be
our main goal is to give her the very happiest life after she has been failed
again and again by people. I wanted to take a second to thank the people who
have been involved in Indigo's rescue she wouldn't be alive without them. First
and foremost is Maureen Delaney and Delaney's Dog Rescue. They covered all of
Indigo's medical bills and continue to rescue animals on a daily basis. Also
if you feel so inclined I'm gonna make sure to put a donation link in the
description so that you can help Maureen continue to save more animals like
indigo and other animals with special medical needs. I also want to thank
Indigo's foster family without them I never would have known that indigo
needed help I never would have been able to act on indigo and Riley wouldn't have
a home. I wanted to thank everyone who has helped support indigo both on
Instagram and Facebook and all my friends who have helped to socialize her
and learn that people can be trusted. We are continuing to work on finding the right
spot for our sanctuary. land searches have been difficult. we've checked out a
couple places in New Mexico and Oregon and our next place to look is North
Carolina. We would love to stay in Southern California so if anyone has
some open land, you know hit a girl up. until then we're gonna continue to talk
about wolves and wolf-dogs about indigo and about rescue. We'll be making a lot
of videos with indigo in the near future I can guarantee it
she's definitely a character
we've often joked that if we had a parent the first word it would
learn is indigo because that is literally the word we say about a
thousand times a day. We're also gonna do some comparison videos of indigo with
higher content wolf-dogs so we can kind of outline some of the different
physical traits and we're gonna touch on some of the difficulties of having a
wolfdog especially a wolf dog puppy in the house. I really hope you guys stick
around I hope that indigo makes up for the lack of content for the last couple
of months make sure to comment below what type of videos you'd like to see
with Indigo, if you have any questions about her that we could
address or anything you'd like to know if you'd like to donate to Delaney's Dog
rescue I'll be sure to put a link in the description. Make sure to hit the
subscribe button and we'll be coming out with a new video soon thanks for
watching
suddenly our goal changed from saving indigo's leg
and helping her to walk to saving her life did we have to I don't know Indigo
I'm talk about saving your life here
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