Where are they now?

Looking for your pets 15 minutes of fame?

Heres your chance!

The RSPCA is running a "Where are they now" article in our next newsletter. This article will feature pets who have been adopted from us with details on how they ended up at the RSPCA, followed by the progress they have made in there new homes. Please send us your details and pet photos and you could be selected to appear in our Christmas newsletter!

Submissions must include-

• Your name and the name of your loved pet
• Your contact details
• A short story (no more than 500 words) about your pet, including previous history (stray or surrender - life before the RSPCA), life since adoption, progress made etc.
• Good quality, clear photos
  

Ponky

When Ponky the wirehaired Fox terrier X Jack Russel was found as a stray and brought to the RSPCA his owners were contacted as he had a microchip. Unfortunately they chose not to reclaim him so he began the adoption process. Ponky wasn't suitable for general adoption as he had a grade one heart murmur and occasionally "hopped' on three legs. Luckily a staff member permanently fostered the ten year old terrier and took him home to meet the family of six humans, plus two large dogs,  two cats, five chooks and a rabbit. Three years later, supposedly at the age of thirteen, Ponky is thriving enjoying an indoor/ outdoor lifestyle on a 18 acre property where he is enjoys sleeping in front of the fire (preferably in a pile of ashes) stalking the chickens and vanishing down rabbit holes whilst out walking. He is scared of thunderstorms and has been known to open doors and climb into cupboards - he was once found asleep in a salad bowl in one of the kitchen cupboards! He is referred to as 'Ponky', 'Bonky', 'Trevor' and 'Uncle Ponky' to the foster kittens which come to visit and just cannot resist his curly legs which look like scratching posts and his little helicopter tail!

Rosie

This pretty girl was adopted from the RSPCA at 10 Weeks of age. Rosie was the shyest of the 20 kittens looking for homes. Rosie hid in a basket while the other kittens played and purred.  Her new owners could not resist her bright green  eyes and white mittens so they took her home along with a little ginger and white kitten named Donimo. At eighteen months old Rosie lost her playmate Donimo when he was hit by a car. A couple of months later she was joined by a female kitten "Astro" who Rosie now enjoys bullying, even though they secretly like each other! Rosie used one of her nine lives in the summer of 2006 when she decided to tackle a venomous tiger snake! Luckily she was found and taken to the vet immediately where she was given a dose of anti-venom, after several days of touch and go she pulled through and was brought home from the vets. Rosie loved the post snake bite TLC and quickly piled on the kilo's she had lost while she was ill  plus much more! She is now a curvaceous young lady living life to the full. At four years of age she lives the luxurious life. Rosie rules the roost of both the house and her large back yard. Her pastimes include playing in the dead leaves which fall off the giant oak tree in Autumn, sitting on the rabbits pen gazing hopefully as he hops around unaware, sleeping in sunny picturesque places, flirting with her doggy friends and beating up 2 year old Astro. Sometimes aloof to her human owners, she is very much in charge of when and where she gets cuddles, which bed she sleeps in, which door she gets let in (as she prefers to have a door or window opened on her request rather than use the cat flap) and when she gets fed.