Poor Max is now a Lucky Boy!

These pictures were taken last week on our slow, slow morning walk. As I mentioned in my post to Marjorie from WI, Jaya's doing so much better, no head tilt, no darting eyes, or vomiting. However, the poor girl's slowed down considerably and will quite often stop and sit, or even lay down, during one of her three daily walks.

As I've mentioned in several previous posts, Max, our Chinese Husky neighbor, is a wonderful friend to everyone in the neighborhood. Unfortunately, he is almost always stuck behind a pretty repressed gate.

In the picture to the right, one can see that Max is taking advantage of Jaya's new style of Chill-walking and straining his snout to the max (pardon the pun) and stretching his paw underneath his iron door. Jaya was kind enough to lay close to this barrier, but not too concerned about granting greater access.

First the bad news. Max apparently waits for any opportunity to flee. The family seems to be renting their front yard for parking spaces and unfortunately one day, someone let Max out and he ran right into one of the cars that careen down our street as if it were the BQE. Thank goodness, Max only injured one paw. If one looks closely, one may partially make out a little gauze wrapped around one of his joints.

Now for the good news. It seems Max now has a foster family! We met these 4 folks walking him (or trying not to choke him to death as he attempted to drag them) down the block. They said that one day Max escaped and joined them in the park with their Husky-mix. Once they discovered where he'd come from, the most likely Mandarin-speaking friend negotiated a fostering deal with the family.