I haven't told one of my foster stories for awhile so I thought I should. But so many have been sad, I thought I'd put in a rags-to-riches one with NO real sadness involved.
The Story of Kenai
Well, I said the story wasn't sad but of course, in rescue, the dogs start in a bad place. This one always stuck out to me. I had a neighbor who phoned my organization with a tale. She had worked with us previously regarding a goat that we rehomed for her, so she knew who to call when she ended up rescuing a puppy.
But she was driving down the road in town, minding her own business, when she sees a puppy come out of a car window. She stops, assumes it jumped accidentely, and catches it. She catches up with the car driver,assuming they did not know the pup had jumped, and returned the dog with a smile. Well they continue down the road, and she sees them THROW the dog from the window. It lands with a thud but is alright, and she catches it again. This time she does not follow the folks to return the dog, she angrily brought it home. She thought to keep it but didn't really have the right situation for a puppy, so she called me. She had gotten it spayed and fixed up, but couldn't keep it, could I come pick it up? I said sure.
Well I had a nice lady all lined up to meet a pup I already had at my house and was on the way to an adoption event, so I just picked up the new pup on the way. It looked like a little black lab, perfect little lab face, nice looking dog. The adopter fell in LOVE with the new dog and had been kind of looking for a lab but wasn't sure she wanted one that big. So this dog looked perfect. The dog set the record for the foster that I had for the shortest amount of time....about an hour!
This was several years ago and I knew this person through my daughter, so I got to hear about it for many years. It ended up being lab mixed with JACK RUSSELL, so it was a hysterical looking dog but extremely beloved. It was known to have a toy collection of something like 200 stuffed toys. It was quite spoiled!
So that was a happy one for you guys! No crying this time. But I doubt many dogs do as well being thrown from cars TWICE. Incidentely, she still loves going places with her people and doesn't mind the car at all. Go figger.
We have a nice day here, but storms are going to start up again tomorrow.
