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Cool! So is this like that Kevin Bacon game? (6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon, or
something like that?) I sure think so -- I've heard of so many doggies named Sophie. ~~ Sooz |
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Spike just showed up in the neighborhood. I live nextdoor to a dog hater
(everything hater, from what I know of her----thank goodness we hae 2 acres of woods and hardly ever see them), and she called the police to come get him because he was lying on her porch. (We are in a rural county with no animal control or Humane Society. This means he'd have gone to the vet that works with the city, for three days, and if he wasn't claimed, he'd have been put down.) Spike had wandered over because he heard me throwing the ball for the dogs, in the backyard. At the time, we had Jinx, Romeo, and were fostering one for a rescue group in another county. My neighbor called and told me she'd called the police. I let Spike into the backyard, and when the police came, I said I'd be responsible for him. I figure the city owes me the $50 I saved them---$25 for the boarding and $25 for the euthanasia that the city gets charged everytime they take a dog up to the vet. Romeo actually belong to someone in town (We're kind of on the edge of town.), but we didn't know it. He hung around here for about 6 months, and we thought he was a stray. I drugged him and took him to the vet, for shots and to see about neutering. The vet we went to was about 10 miles away, and wouldn't you know that a girl, working there, lived nextdoor to the people that owned him. He's kind of unusual looking, so she recognized him right away. She called the people to see if they'd let me have him, and they said no and even paid for his shots. I took him home, and they never came and got him, and things went on for another several months. He was here all the time. The girl at the vet was so upset that she opened her mouth. She knew he'd have a much better home with me. She said they were the kind of people who got a pet, threw it out in the yard, and if it lived, it lived. They might feed it now and then, but the pets were pretty much on their own. She said at one time, they had him chained to a tree that came down (with him chained to it) when it was struck by lightning. I'm sure he'd been run off by all the neighbors, when scrounging for food. Even now, we've made a lot of progress, but he's still skittish, although very gentle and has never even threatened to bite someone. Finally, the girl at the vet told me that her neighbors said I could have Romeo. We've had him for 9 years now and Spike for 3. Sorry, probably more than you wanted to know! -- Jerri www.beadbimbo.com "Dr. Sooz" wrote in message ... Both of them were street puppies. I usually say, "pound hounds", but my DD doesn't like this since they didn't actually come from the pound. Tell again where they came from? I forgot. ~~ Sooz |
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Spike is on my top ten list of Fabulous Dogs Of All Time. #1 is my dear
departed lab, Cador and #2 is my dad's dog, Ellis-the-mayor. I just love Spike's antics. The beads are a fitting and cute tribute! -- Marisa (AU/NZ) www.galleryvittoria.com Take your thieving hands off my iPod. |
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