Mom wants to share a letter.

To all my Dogster pals. Mom wants to share something with you. Long before I ever came around like 12 or 13 years ago, mom had adopted a female Saint Bernard from the Saint Bernard Rescue Mission. Her name was Viva and she had been a breeding dog in a puppy mill in the southern half of Missouri. She had never got to be a puppy, play with a family, she lived in a concrete pin and popped out litter after litter until she was to old. Thats how mom ended up with her. When she went and picked up Viva the person who had transported Viva handed mom this letter. Mom doesnt know who he author is but she believes it is from all us rescues. The title of the letter is fitting right now so that is why she is sharing, its "UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN".

I will never know what I did to deserve such an awful life full of abuse and neglect. My life had become so sad and lonely, it was like living in an endless, dark tunnel. I remeber looking up one day and seeing a bright light at the end of the tunnel. The light was so bright I thought God must have sent an angel to finally end my suffering. God di send an angel, he sent you. The bright light I had seen was your smiling face. You promised me that my days of neglect and abuse were over. My battered body and broken spirit hardly dared to believe it was true. You opened your heart and your home and gave me more love and comfort and safety than I had ever known befor. You gave me the softest bed for my tired aching bones and more toys and attention than I ever dreamed existed. I no longer cringed when a hand was raised near me, because your hands had only kindness and treats to offer me. There is no way to really measure just how deeply your love and devotion affected my life, but even love and devotion and all the medical attention in the world can't heal a body that has been battered and broken for too long. So please do not be sad that I am gone. From the day I met you, I never suffered again., not even at the end. I will live in your heart forever UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN..




Mom doesnt know who wrote this but she is glad they did. This puts into words the main reason she adopts rescues instead of other routes. In her heart and ours, it only seems right. My mom is posting this to dedicate to me and ALL the other rescues out there that sit on Rainbow Bridge knowing someone loved them and cared enough to give a rescue a life free of abuse and neglect.

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