The Fate of Blizzard, the white-headed Border Collie

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I don't know if everyone realizes it yet, but I had to surrender Blizzard last October to the BC Rescue. I tried so hard to hold on to that boy, and in the end all I was left with was a terribly broken heart. You see, when I purchased Blizzard I was due to move very soon after. In the meantime I had a friend agree to foster him and let me live in their attic. Well, Blizzard turned out to be a very anxious boy with fear-agression... to other dogs. In less than a week, I was told he could not stay there and that neither could I. It would have helped a lot if they had informed me of that before I had the poor dog shipped on an 11 hour plane ride to Maine... and it would have helped me if they had told me that they could not have me live in their attic long before this as well. Some couples have communication problems and problems asserting their boundaries, and after the fact seem to find their voice. Anyway, By October, Blizzard still had not gotten the help he was supposed to get (even though he had spent several months with a "dog trainer") and was being shipped around, but not with me. I had the heart to train him, but not the place to house him. He had burned all his bridges with his fear-aggression issues and with his lack of indoor living skills. He was barely house trained by October and he had been living inside since the December before. If I had been able to keep him with me he would have been house trained easily. The journey through the past year with Blizzard was a hard one, only made worse by my husband living clear to the other coast line since the November before. In August before I had to surrender Blizzard, my husband and I had set up for Blizzard to be flown out to the west coast to be with my husband. The day before everything was going to go down, my husband was in a bad car accident and severely injured his left hand, breaking all the fingers on his left hand (appears that the vehicle rolled on the drivers side and his hand broke through the side window.) There was just no way he could have been able to handle Blizzard with one hand. We had to cancel Blizzard's flight. The last thing I remember seeing of Blizzard as the BC evaluators closed up the back of their truck was his big brown eyes looking at me as I closed his crate as if to say "now what. What have you done?" He was able to spend his last night with me and Rosie and the night went very well. Those eyes crushed me.

I was promised that Blizzard would not be put down for his fear-aggression issues. The eval person even scribbled that out of the paper I signed. However, I have yet to see a hint of Blizzard on the NE Border Collie Rescue site and I am worried. I want him to have a forever home where he will be loved and be provided with the stability of his own home. I don't want him to be shipped around, left outside and never loved, ignored or forgotten, bullied by other dogs. I just want him to get the training and love he truly deserves. I cannot inquire about Blizzard because once I sign him over the rescue considers me out. Like I am being punished for not being able to provide him with what he needed. I just want to know if he is being loved. I just want to make sure he is okay. I don't need to know where he is or anything. I just want to make sure he's okay. I miss him so. I had hopes and dreams for him. My heart is so broken and the thought of him not being here anymore brings tears to my eyes.

So know that I tried my very best to do good by him and to keep him and give him all that he needed. It was not because I did not love him that I surrendered him. To the contrary, it was because of love that I surrendered him. My white-headed boy...

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Barked by: SHAY (Dogster Member)

March 30th 2011 at 3:35 pm