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"Meet Shelby. My little 81 pound German Shepherd.
Shelby is a 7 year old rescue from a local vet. She came to me under unusual circumstances, but I was more than happy to step up and take ownership of this amazing female shepherd, who snores, grunts, complains, and kicks me off the bed at night so she can sprawl out.
Several months ago, early in the morning, after staying up until 6AM the previous night, my room mates phone explodes about 8AM, and I mean EXPLODES, it won't stop going off, and he finally wakes up and answers it, and it turns out that it is a friend of his from where he works, who does voultneer work for a local vets office. He talks to his friend, and then comes barging in to my room demanding I wake up, and we need to leave that instant. I growl and roll over and growl, telling him he can do do all sorts of colorful things to him self, since I had a whole 2 hours of lousy sleep. He tells me "DO YOU WANT A GERMAN SHEPHERD??? WE HAVE TO LEAVE RIGHT NOW, THIS INSTANT" and told me the circumstances. He didn't need to tell me another word, I flew out of bed and was running out the door with my pants hardly on, and I didn't even bother to ware shores.
Me and my room mate both flopped in to my trusty blue Saturn and I took off down the road leaving a thick blue cloud of smoke behind me as I whaled on the car harder than ever. There was not really a moment where I had the car with in reasonable legal speed limits; flooring it from every single stop sign, pretending yellow lights means GO FASTER. I was driving it like I stole it, and I didn't care, I was going to get there even if that saturn had to grow wings and fly. I could not even stomach the thought of a perfectly good shepherd being put down for no real clear reason! Car and road laws be damned, I WAS ON A MISSION!!
We ended up getting a little lost in Wonder Lake, Illinois, but with lots of tire screeching, passing, and overly insane driving, we arrived at the vet, and met up with his friend. We had arrived before Shelby's owner, and her did. We were told by my room mates friend, that Shelby was there to be put down that day. That the owner "could no longer care for her" and that "no one wanted to adopt her because shes 7".
Finally the owner arrived, my room mates friend talked to her out in the parking lot, and pointed to us, and that owner had a a look of sheer delight. She came in, and we met her, and Shelby. both me and my room mate were jaw dropped at just how pretty and happy shelby was. There was not a single thing wrong with her, not one little flaw. She was beautiful from nose to tail. We kept going back and forth, not believing that this dog was going home with us, she was just too amazing, but she was about to be passed on to us. We did some paper work, talked to the owner and got an idea of her history, then he leash was passed to us, and we headed out.
Went outside, got all Shelby's doggy belongings from the owners car, piled them in mine along with Shelby, and headed home. Shelby has turned out to be the most loving and amazing dog I have ever owned in my life. She is great with kids, great with people all around and with lots of trial and error, we have been able to discover that she is highly trained, and obeys commands she knows with out a single second of hesitation. It has been a lot of up and down with her, helping her adjust. The one thing that always stands true, are two magic words and her day is made... "Car ride" and it's hi-ho silver! I have never had a dog that loves being in the car more than Shelby. She is my traveling buddy, we go everywhere together. In with her belongings was her story, a little green folder with paper work dating back to when Shelby was born and adopted by her first owner in Sierra Vista, Arizona, then it told of her travels with her military owner all around the US, then finally to here, where she became mine.
I am sure I have dragged this on a lot, but none of it was made up. That was the most interesting day of my life when I went to go save her. To this very day, we don't know the true reason for the previous owners decision to get rid of such an amazing shepherd. We have speculated many things, but we do not know the true story, and at this point we no longer care, she is ours now, and she is simply amazing"
pan"Meet Shelby. My little 81 pound German Shepherd.
Shelby is a 7 year old rescue from a local vet. She came to me under unusual circumstances, but I was more than happy to step up and take ownership of this amazing female shepherd, who snores, grunts, complains, and kicks me off the bed at night so she can sprawl out.
Several months ago, early in the morning, after staying up until 6AM the previous night, my room mates phone explodes about 8AM, and I mean EXPLODES, it won't stop going off, and he finally wakes up and answers it, and it turns out that it is a friend of his from where he works, who does voultneer work for a local vets office. He talks to his friend, and then comes barging in to my room demanding I wake up, and we need to leave that instant. I growl and roll over and growl, telling him he can do do all sorts of colorful things to him self, since I had a whole 2 hours of lousy sleep. He tells me "DO YOU WANT A GERMAN SHEPHERD??? WE HAVE TO LEAVE RIGHT NOW, THIS INSTANT" and told me the circumstances. He didn't need to tell me another word, I flew out of bed and was running out the door with my pants hardly on, and I didn't even bother to ware shores.
Me and my room mate both flopped in to my trusty blue Saturn and I took off down the road leaving a thick blue cloud of smoke behind me as I whaled on the car harder than ever. There was not really a moment where I had the car with in reasonable legal speed limits; flooring it from every single stop sign, pretending yellow lights means GO FASTER. I was driving it like I stole it, and I didn't care, I was going to get there even if that saturn had to grow wings and fly. I could not even stomach the thought of a perfectly good shepherd being put down for no real clear reason! Car and road laws be damned, I WAS ON A MISSION!!
We ended up getting a little lost in Wonder Lake, Illinois, but with lots of tire screeching, passing, and overly insane driving, we arrived at the vet, and met up with his friend. We had arrived before Shelby's owner, and her did. We were told by my room mates friend, that Shelby was there to be put down that day. That the owner "could no longer care for her" and that "no one wanted to adopt her because shes 7".
Finally the owner arrived, my room mates friend talked to her out in the parking lot, and pointed to us, and that owner had a a look of sheer delight. She came in, and we met her, and Shelby. both me and my room mate were jaw dropped at just how pretty and happy shelby was. There was not a single thing wrong with her, not one little flaw. She was beautiful from nose to tail. We kept going back and forth, not believing that this dog was going home with us, she was just too amazing, but she was about to be passed on to us. We did some paper work, talked to the owner and got an idea of her history, then he leash was passed to us, and we headed out.
Went outside, got all Shelby's doggy belongings from the owners car, piled them in mine along with Shelby, and headed home. Shelby has turned out to be the most loving and amazing dog I have ever owned in my life. She is great with kids, great with people all around and with lots of trial and error, we have been able to discover that she is highly trained, and obeys commands she knows with out a single second of hesitation. It has been a lot of up and down with her, helping her adjust. The one thing that always stands true, are two magic words and her day is made... "Car ride" and it's hi-ho silver! I have never had a dog that loves being in the car more than Shelby. She is my traveling buddy, we go everywhere together. In with her belongings was her story, a little green folder with paper work dating back to when Shelby was born and adopted by her first owner in Sierra Vista, Arizona, then it told of her travels with her military owner all around the US, then finally to here, where she became mine.
I am sure I have dragged this on a lot, but none of it was made up. That was the most interesting day of my life when I went to go save her. To this very day, we don't know the true reason for the previous owners decision to get rid of such an amazing shepherd. We have speculated many things, but we do not know the true story, and at this point we no longer care, she is ours now, and she is simply amazing"
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Good for you for rescuing her! I rescued my shep as well. I saw him on PetFinder and thought that he was my friend's dog who had perhaps been picked up by animal control. I went to see him and it wasn't my friend's dog, but he seemed to be the only dog not barking and he rubbed up against the cage. The shelter told me that it was his last day and he was only still alive because he was showcased on the news.
Even though my parents said that I couldn't have a dog, I fostered him anyway and when the two weeks was up, I adopted him. Sadly, I had to move out of my parents' house because of this, even though I was responsible with him, but I've still got him 6 years later.
It's sad that so many people see animals as objects and don't consider their feelings or see value in them. I'm glad you were there to help her out and give her a good life. She is very pretty and I would love to snuggle with her. I wish that more dogs could be loved instead of being put down.
Even though my parents said that I couldn't have a dog, I fostered him anyway and when the two weeks was up, I adopted him. Sadly, I had to move out of my parents' house because of this, even though I was responsible with him, but I've still got him 6 years later.
It's sad that so many people see animals as objects and don't consider their feelings or see value in them. I'm glad you were there to help her out and give her a good life. She is very pretty and I would love to snuggle with her. I wish that more dogs could be loved instead of being put down.
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