Four Paws Etc: Rescue dog day

If you know me at all, you will know my Mama loves Dogs, Cats, Squirrels anything with 4 legs. Her heart is with the rescue dogs that no one wants. Mama and Daddy have rescued 6 dogs since 1986 when Max, their first dog was born. He was born to a poor worn out Pit Bull named Spikey and she had 6 sets of twins. the people who lived next door were not nice to their dogs. The puppies were sick with worms when born and only 5 survived, Mama brought them in her kitchen and saved them one by one. 3 people wanted a puppy, Mama and daddy did not want a puppy or even a dog, but they kept the two blond puppies you see below, Max and Sarah, just so they did not have to live next door.

That started the whole rescue thing. Since that day, there has only been 3 days between the death of their dog and the next rescue. the rescue is for them and for the ones that deserve to be removed from what humans did to them.

Max was daddy's' heart dog, which is the position I hold in Mama's heart at the time we are writing this.

Next came Baby Girl, they found her at Telesis Rescue, she was 10 months old and adopted Feb 2002 about 5 days after Max passed away.

She was also none as Miss Attitude and Daddy's favorite name, The Bitch!

Baby had been badly abused and came to Mama and Daddy afraid of any and everything, 6 months later she ruled the house and was not afraid of anything. Mama says she thinks the people beat her because she would do NOTHING that was asked, she was UNTRAINABLE, even the rescue lady said that. The difference is, they let her do what she wanted to do, and after three tries of running away, she called Telesis and the lady said GET HER ANOTHER DOG. A calm dog.

Cooper was 7 when we got him from the shelter. It was instant love and Baby they became the contented and loving dogs.

In 2005, a friend called and said, you said you like boxers, we have a stray on our street, he is starving and has been beaten and kicked and people are abusing him. We have 6 dogs 7 cats. Do you want to come see him?

We could not leave him in the street. This pitiful puppy, Vet said maybe 4 months old came to be #3 with Daddy and Mama. the years passed and Cooper and Baby went over the rainbow Jake, daddies 2nd heart dog left us in 2018

Daddy did not want to let him go and Mama had to put her foot down, because Jake was blind, could not hear, had dementia and paced about 20 hours a day.

Daddy never cries, he thinks it is not manly, but he did when Mama took Jake to the vet.

3 days after Jake left, Mama and Daddy went to the same shelter and Mama said I want a black dog, has to be old and black, because she read no one would adopt black dogs. She said he has to be gentle, sweet, no pit bull, nothing over 30 pounds. They had nothing to fit that, they were leaving. The Lady said we have a 7-year-old black dog, he is in my office because he was attacked by a dog someone let out and drove off. he had surgery and is created in my office. He is just what you want but he doesn't weigh 30 lbs.

She opened the door and there sat a 79 lb pit mix, black and 7 years old.

He climbed in Mama's lap, put the whammy on her heart and the next thing Big boy new he was in the car and HOME his forever home

He came home with them on Oct 1st 2018, see how scared he is? he had never seen a back yard or been allowed to wander. he was terrified of the YARD. You can see his scar on his shoulder. His name was Gary. UGH! said Mama He is Mamas Big Boy

and a few months later he was

He was Mama's first ever Heart dog, she was his Mama, and he was her baby. He was 7 and Mama did not know he had congestive heart failure and neither did the shelter. She would have saved him anyway if she new. 2 short years later, her heart lost a huge piece of it when he went over the rainbow bridge.

Rescue Black Dogs

Rescue OLD dogs

Rescue Big Dogs

Rescue Ugly dogs.

Rescue Cats, they all deserve it, sneaking that in on dogs' day

And then came ME, Mamas Beloved 2nd Heart Dog! She did not think she would ever find another one. Finding 2 in a lifetime is not usual. Mama and I are bonded and empaths to each other.

I appeared in a text from a friend, I was sitting in a chair! We bonded when she stared in my eyes and 1 hour later, I was sitting in the back seat of her SUV with mama and daddy.

On my Gotcha day, Oct 13, 2020,

They did not get me from the shelter. but the coolest thing ever is, I was 7 and weighed the same as Big and came from the shelter that the others came from. Seems a family adopted me from Manatee county animal rescue after I was left, adopted, returned and adopted again and4 months later they were evicted from their home, Lisa lived next door, even though he had 6 dogs 3 cats and a ferret she took me into her house. When Lisa heard Big boy had passed and Mama had been crying for 3 days, she offered me to Mama...She calls me her gift from Covid-19. Lisa and David wore Masks, Mama and daddy wore mask and they met in the driveway and I dived in Mama's car and that was that..

Day one in my new home, playing ball with Daddy and I was finding out just how often Mama would take my photo. I have been here 3 years 7 month and still counting,