THIS IS OUR STORY ABOUT "FINDING DORY"
LAST DECEMBER, WE LOST OUR 12 YEAR OLD SHEPHERD..SHADOW..
SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A LARGE TUMOR IN HER SPLEEN THAT HAD
RUPTURED AND WAS BLEEDING INTO HER ABDOMEN...WE WERE
DEVASTATED...WE HAD TO KEEP OUR PROMISE TO OUR BABIES ABOUT
NOT LETTING THEM SUFFER...IT WAS ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS
WE HAVE EVER HAD TO DO..
SHADOW HAD A BUDDY BY THE NAME OF LIBBY (ALSO A RESCUE)
LIBBY WAS SHADOW'S BUDDY AND LIBBY ONLY KNEW HER SHADOW..
WE KNEW SHE WOULD HAVE TROUBLE AFTER LOSING SHADOW.
LIBBY WAS ONLY 4 YEARS...WE TOOK HER TO A COUPLE OF PLACES TO
SEE HOW SHE WOULD DO WITH A NEW PUPPY...SHE WAS SCARED TO DEATH, AND LITERALLY CLIMBED ON TOP OF MY HEAD TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM ANY PUPPY..LIBBY IS A SHEPHERD MIX AND WEIGHED 50 POUNDS.. NEEDLESS TO SAY WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW SHE WAS GOING TO DO...THEN SHE BECAME REALLY DEPRESSED, WOULD NOT EAT AND STOPPED SLEEPING WITH US AND WOULD LAY IN THE BATHROOM...IT WAS SAD TO THINK THAT OUR LITTLE GIRL FELT THIS WAY...(WE DID TOO)
WE STARTED LOOKING ON-LINE FOR PET RESCUES...SAW HUNDREDS
OF PRECIOUS FACES, THEN I CAME ACROSS PERFECT PAWS AND THERE SHE WAS...THIS SMILING FACE...WENT TO BED AND COULD NOT GET THAT FACE OUT OF MY HEAD..KEPT THINKING ABOUT HER AND DECIDED TO E-MAIL....TOLD THE GIRLS OUR STORY AND THEY
INVITED US TO MEET, SHE WAS NAMED DORA AT THAT TIME...WE DROVE
AN HOUR AND A HALF TO MEET HER... WE TOOK LIBBY WITH US TO SEE HOW THEY WOULD DO...VERY FIRST THING THAT HAPPENED, SHE
RAN RIGHT TO DWAYNE, KISSED HIS FACE, TURNED TO LIBBY AND STARTED WANTING TO PLAY...LIBBY ACTED A LITTLE SCARED AT FIRST
BUT IN A FEW MINUTES EVERYONE COULD TELL SHE WAS GONNA BE JUST FINE....DORA WANTED A FRIEND...I BENT DOWN AND DORA GAVE ME KISSES TOO, AND I LOVED ON BOTH MY GIRLS...THAT WAS IT...
THE WONDERFUL COUPLE WHO HAD BEEN TAKING CARE OF DORA HAD ACTUALLY BEEN CALLING HER DORY....WE ENJOYED TALKING TO THEM SO MUCH...THEY WERE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH...SO NEEDLESS TO SAY
DORY JUST FIT...SO THAT EVENING IN ANOTHER HOUR AND A HALF RIDE HOME...(WHICH BOTH THOSE BABIES DONE GREAT IN A SUV)
WE MADE IT HOME....LET THE GIRLS OUT INTO OUR FENCED YARD AND
THEY JUST STARTED RUNNING AND PLAYING AND WOULDN'T STOP...
IT HAD BEEN SNOWING SO THEY WERE SO FUNNY...DORY LOVES THE SNOW, AND PLOWS THROUGH IT...THAT WAS CHRISTMAS OF 2012...
WE HAVE HAD DORY NOW 8 MONTHS...SHE IS DEFINITELY PART OF THE
FAMILY...
I ALWAYS TELL EVERYONE... IN OUR MANY YEARS OF RESCUING AND HAVING BABIES IN OUR LIVES...."EVEN KNOWING HOW THINGS WOULD END WITH ALL THOSE BABIES, WE WOULD DO IT ALL OVER IN A SPLIT SECOND TO HAVE THOSE BABIES IN OUR LIVES"
THEY MAKE OUR HEARTS HAPPY......
THAT HOW WE FOUND DORY.....
ROBIN, DWAYNE, LIBBY AND DORY
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