Carla, are you SURE you want the story on ALL of them? lol Geez, I'll be here for days, but here goes.....

1. Sox, our 3 year old Aussie/German Shepard mix, came from a litter of which 4 of 6 died from worms. The house where she was born was soooooo disgusting. When I got her home, I found, what I thought was a tick on her side. It turned out, when I took her to a vet, to be a maggot, which he had to dig out.

2. Tigger, our 3 year old male Pit/Husky mix came (as my Christmas gift, if you ask my husband)when a guy brought him in as an 8 week old pup to where Mike worked at the time,and said, if someone doesn't take this dog, I'm going to take it home and shoot it. Needless to say, he came home, especially when he jumped from the guy's hands to Mike and promptly fell asleep. He was named Charlie when we got him because he had a black cross on his forehead and so they named him after Charles Manson.

3. Jasmine aka Jazzy our Mantle Merle Great Dane who is a 2.5 year old female. My students know that I love dogs and one of my kids came in all excited and told me that they had a Great Dane pup at the kill shelter. Knowing that Mike was raised with Danes and loved them, I called him immediately and he met me at the shelter. Buuuuutttt, when I walked in, I saw this beautiful Red-tri Aussie female in a cage by herself, which of course ended up being #4. Her name is Shawna and is about 3 or 4 years old.

5. George is a 2 year old hound mix that was dumped in our neighbor's backyard. They couldn't keep him because they had a dog aggressive dog at the time.

6. Serenity is our 2 year old Boxer/Pit mix who came from our SPCA and had been there for over a year, because anyone who was interested wanted her to fight. She had had mange while she was there and had to be isolated and developed a severe case of separation anxiety and self mutilated her tail that had to be docked as a result.

7. Billy is a 3 year old Beagle who came from our stupid neighbor who was going to dump him in the woods because he kept getting out and coming down to our house. He also turned out to be blind in one eye and we had to spend $500 to have the eye removed because the guy didn't pay attention and something got into the eye and exploded the lens and caused glaucoma and cataracts.

8. DeeDee is a little Border Collie/Terrier mix who is about 1.5 years old and is female. She and #9 Vonney came from a shelter from a town about an hour from here. I saw her online and it said her time was short, so, up I drove and paid my $50 and took her home that night (they don't do any sort of check...they are morons at that shelter).

9. Vonney is next and is a male Chow mix (maybe with Husky)and is about 2 years old. The guy at the shelter mentioned above, was going to put him down because he was a "2 time loser" because he had been returned twice because he didn't get along with their cats. Now, keep in mind here, that on his description, it said in bold print that he didn't like cats, but these idiots adopted him to homes with cats anyway, and then said they were going to put him down for THEIR stupidity.

10. Dudley is our "train wreck". He came from New York City and is a 10 year old Lab/Shepard mix with demodectic mange and was 46 pounds overweight when we got him (he has lost most of the weight now). He was going to have to be put down because the woman had to move from her house and was not allowed to take him with her to her new apartment. She still calls every couple of weeks to check on how he is doing.

11. Sophie is our 1 year old Lab/Pharoah Hound mix who came from Pet Refuge in Mishawaka. She was found as a stray and had been there for about 6 months when we got her. She is, as our art teacher at school calls her, the "assassin dog" because she's the one who hit me full force in the leg and broke it badly enough that I was in surgery for 3.5 hours and in the hospital for 5 days, and out of school for 2.5 months. She is such a sweetie though. She loves to give kisses.

12. Tobey is our 1 year old white Shepard mix, Mike found running loose in our neighborhood and no one bothered to look for him. He is incredibly strong, but is, most of the time, really sweet.

13. Daisy is our Mantle Great Dane who is now about 10 months old, who was found by a guy running up and down his alley looking in garbage cans for food. He had an ad in the paper, that he had found her. I, of course, being the sucker that I am, called to see if he had found her owner and he said no and that he didn't know what he was going to do because he lived in a one bedroom house and was keeping her in a shed behind the house. I, of course, said, NO WAY, bring her over here if no one claims her in 2 days....obviously, the rest is history.

14. Jessie, is a miniture American Eskimo, who was found by the same neighbor who found George, but now, since her Bandit had died, still couldn't keep her because of her long hair and her husband's allergies. She thought she had found her a home, but the guy threatened to shoot her because she pooped ONCE on the carpet...Hello??? Then, one of my student's mother wanted her and they came and got her and brought her back the next day because she didn't like their dog (like they gave her a chance).

15. Butterscotch is an older (no idea how old)Cocker Spaniel with REALLY nasty teeth that I found at the end of our street running loose with no collar and a buddy who ran away from me and we still haven't found again. He has only been here for 2 weeks since I found him on the Friday before Christmas as I came home from school.

Ok, are you asleep yet? lol Sheesh, I haven't written this much since college and had to write term papers! hehehehe. Sorry if I babbled too long. And in answer to your question (if you haven't figured it out yet) NO! I can't say no to a dog in need.

Thanks for being interested.

Molly