Wait a minute! I'm gone for a day and all this happens! Is this really happening? What's new? I need details!
Daphne, SEE what happens when you are away?...lol!...Long story short...if that is possible...lol!...April deviously posts on the rescue forum that there is a Pyr pup in a shelter in IA FULL well knowing that I am going to see PYR & IOWA right away! (She claims she did not do this with me in mind...I DO NOT believe her!
) ...My hubby & I are sitting here & we'd JUST been talking about how much we miss our girlie dog...I mean not 5 minutes before I see the thread so we click...& OMG!!!!!!!!!!...There is Sheba who fits ALL the criteria I have for ever taking in a rescue dog again...We, of coarse are all over it!...E-mailed the shelter that night.
Yesterday I call & am met with we can't hold her for you...can't take a credit card over the phone etc..etc...She is around 5 hrs. away mind you & isn't going to be fixed until Monday...So, I ask the shelter director if she knows anything about Pyrs or LGD's in general & I go on to explain that even if we can't have her what she NEEDS to look for & look out for in a potential adopter...Now she is listening...I explain that if the wrong person ends up with her & is not prepared for her "butthead stage" (& it will come) she will probably end back up at the shelter but guess what, "now you have a dog with issues & baggage & we are no longer a potential home for her"...So the director says, "can you get a vet reference faxed today" & I assure her it is no problem & call my vet who faxes her...She then calls me back & asks where they can fax an application for adoption & I tell her "to my vet"...I run down there..fill out the app. & my vet faxes it back for me & I come home...about a 3 minute drive.
Not 5 minutes later my phone rings & it is the shelter director saying, "I am going to bend the rules for you & I hope I don't get burned" & tells me we can have Sheba to be picked up Thursday which is Pyrfect because my hubby gets home Wed. each week!
Sheba's papered & was bred in Oak Groves MO but "picked up" by her owners in Kansas City MO...I will get the breeder's name & the previous owners info. when I get her Thursday....& we get her papers too which I was surprised about...I didn't think shelters could pass them on...So, that's the story & I am going to ask that you not be away that long again...Who knows what I might do next?
