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Arrival Story: The mean old lady that had my placed an ad in the Denton Record Chronicle for "an old and ugly dog that must be gone today or will be taken to the vet to be euthanized". Then my new Mommy came and rescued me ! She had to pay the woman $100 for my collar and vet records (which Mom later found out were false papers). Then Mommy took me to the vet the same day where I was treated for fleas, ticks, ear mites, and given all of my shots.
Bio: My name is Sadie Jo. My first owners were very nice and I lived with them for six years.I had a mom and two human girls that were my life. My mom was diagnosed with lung cancer which was really scary. In may of 07 their were a lot of floods in Gainesville, TX where we lived. Mom and our girls got trapped in the house and I did my best to get them out. I managed to get Mom and our girls out of the house and ontop the roof. We were seen on CNN on-top of the house. When the people came to rescue Mom and our girls I was left behind. Before mom could rescue me she passed away.
I then went to live with my moms sister who didn't treat me so well. I was kept outside 24/7 with no shelter at all. I was chained up all the time on a 5ft leash that was wrapped around a porch post 3 times. I had very little food and many times I went a few days without water. I guess the lady got tired of me being in her yard so she put an ad in the newspaper that read "free to good home, an old an ugly female BC- she has no manners but has shots and is spayed - get her today or i will put her to sleep".
So that's how I met my new mom. She read the ad and rushed right over. She says it was love at first sight. Mommy says I am beautiful and not ugly. My hair was very matted and I was covered in fleas. I only weighed 13 pounds almost all of my teeth are missing. And my legs were so weak from being on the chain that I could barely walk.
Mom has been very good to me. She got me this medicine called osteo-guard so now my bones feel a lot better, and I can even run again. I have to eat puppy food since I was so malnourished. For a while after Mom adopted me, I could only eat canned food.
Well, now I am 32 pounds "and Dad still thinks I look skinny'. I live everyday like I'm a queen. Even though my past was so hard, I still show my mom everyday how thankful I am that she rescued me. I am very obedient now, and it only took mom a week to teach me the basics - she says I'm the smartest girl she's ever known. I will do anything for my new family, even tolerate the puppy biting my ankles all the time. I never smiled when mom first adopted me, but now that is all I do. Mom has even started calling me "happy" and "smiley".
It's great to be adopted. If it wasn't for the kindness in my moms heart I probably wouldn't be living right now.
So to all you adopted pups out there - please be sure to give your new parentes the best in you.
And to all the ones awaiting adoption - we keep you in our prayers everyday.
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I'm writing to let all of you know that on my birthday, November 12th 2009, I went to the bridge.
My human doesn't understand why it happened but is thankful that I don't have to suffer through this coming winter. You see, my arthritis was getting very bad ~ and even with all that Mom and the vets tried, there was still times that I couldn't move.
Mommy misses me but knows that I'm happier now and in a better place.
I love you all, and I am watching over wasch and every one of you.
I know a lot of you that think my Mom is crazy for having so many animals. Well, she isn't. I wanted to write here and let you all know why my Mom does what she does, how it all started.
The beginning -
When Mom was a little girl her 1st dog was a rescue. She had been found after being hit by a car. Mom was 8 years old. This dog "believed to be a shepherd chow mix" came to be known as Makia (ma -kya). Makia survived and taught Mom many things. The first and most important was that of love and devotion.
When Mom was 17 Makia passed away - and that is when Mom decided that she should be more involved in rescuing and fostering.
Texas Charm -
Charm was technically moms 1st rescue. A young chow mix pregnant, starved, and beaten.
Charm was found roaming around in Moms pasture searching for food. She was so skinny that her ribs were showing - so pregnant that she was leaking milk, her coat had been burned and she had a gash in her neck.
Mom took Charm home and cleaned her up. Gave her a nice meal and a soft bed.
Mom continued nursing Charm for a week. Then the puppies were born. Charm had 9 beautiful babies - but only 4 survived.
A few days after Charm gave birth - a man knocked on Moms door asking if she had seen his dog and showed her a picture of Charm chained up with a tow chain and wearing a muzzle.
Mom said no and shut the door. A few days later Mom saw the man beating a dog with a baseball bat. She called the police - but all they did was send the pound to get the dog.
One day while Mom was taking Charm on a walk the man happened to see them.
He told Mom that he wanted the dog and reched for the leash - out of fear Charm snapped at him.
That night while Mom was giving the puppies a bath and Charm was out in the backyard playing - Mom heard a gun shot.
She ran outside - only to find Charm laying on the ground surrounded by a pool of blood.
That man only served 5 months in city jail. He took away so many innocent lives, abused and neglected way too many of our kind, and all he had to do was a tiny 5 months in jail.
Texas Charm was buried in what will soon be Moms animal sanctuary - located in Valley View Texas.
So - to carry on Charms legacy and her memory - Mom has devoted her life to rescue. To helping those in need.
Telling the stories of the ones who can't speaking up for those who have no voice.
You may think she is crazy or as some have said "weird" but to the animals she has saved, the children she has given so much to, the rescues she has donated to, the lives she has given hope to, she is a hero, a wonderful person.
I will have a picture of Charm posted in a day or two (as soon as we can figure the scanner out).
I want to thank all of you for reading this, for understanding my Mom, and for being such wonderful friends to us. We love you all.
When Shandy Iden and her boyfriend, Jay, came across Gabby in Ohio’s Stark County Dog Pound, the shy, not-so-cuddly Lab/shar-pei mix was barely a month old and had a bad case of ticks. “When I saw this scared little girl in the back of her cage,” says Shandy, “I didn’t care if she had two heads and one leg. I couldn’t get her out of there fast enough!”
Curled up on her new parents’ laps on her first day home, it appeared as though Gabby would be a very calm lap dog. But it only took an hour of being alone with her new baby for Shandy to realize this would not be the case. “Once Jay left the house for work, everything changed,” Shandy recalls. Her cute little puppy was suddenly ripping and racing through the house, chasing the cat, hiding under chairs and shredding tissues.
“Jay came home to a house in shambles,” recalls Shandy. “The couches and chairs were all turned over, there were tissues, cat hair and brand new chew toys torn to shreds all over the floor―and there was Gabby, sound asleep. We both looked at each other and laughed. How could such an adorable creature cause so much havoc?”
It's been over a year now, and Gabby has calmed down―a little. “She cuddles up on the couch with me after work and watches TV,” says Shandy, “but she still always has something in her mouth―a ball, a toy, and yes―tissues. I guess you can’t win them all. I look back on that first night and think of our life with Gabby as a Marx Brothers movie. She started off making me laugh and I haven’t stopped yet. She’s the love of my life.”
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