Hello all,
Just found this very useful board. We adopted our cocker, Aramis, nearly 4 years ago from our local rescue center here in Andorra. He'd been given up as he was ill (thyroid) and was in the kennels for 10 months. He was in such a bad way that we didn't even realise that he was a cocker. He was adopted over Christmas in 2005 but was given straight back as the new owner said he was too sick and should be put down. He had no fur, could only walk about 100m and was in a terrible way. The kennels gave us 2 weeks to find him a home or they would put him down.
As we volunteered at the kennels we had got to know him so we decided to take him on. After 4 weeks of treatment he was like a new dog and has been healthy ever since. I'll post some pics later.
Hopefully we can get him to appear in your 2012 calendar!
Cheers
Arnie and Aramis