What a way to celebrate a monday! with all these great tails a waggin' of happiness found!!
Although Bug was a rescue dog too - her tail wiggles just a bit a different.
I live in the mountains without a lot of traffic or noise so when spring time comes around my doors and windows are open. Well, five years ago i was sitting at the computer working on what should have been a relaxing saturday when i noticed something brown out of the corner of my eye eating the cat food...at the time the cats i had were tabby, white and white & grey. when ever i'd turn my head the brown became a blur and disappeared. After a time i was able to turn quicker than the blur could move and discovered a scrawny dog eating the cat food. and then it darted back outside. i had an extra bag of "rejected" cat food so took it outside and sat with the food in hand, and sat, talking ever so gently to the little wreck that resembled a dog. it took about 45 minutes but she finally came and ate out of my hand. You could count her bones she was underweight, she was limping, and one eye was so swollen that it looked as though it was a large golfball. She needed help!
I took her to my landlord's home and asked if he had recently adopted her. He said no - looked at the dog and said "go home" (now it was obvious to me the dog had no home!)So i asked if i could keep her. He said sure. So i picked this little critter up (all 35 lbs) and carried her home.
The next day it was to the vet and the pet supply store. the vet in turn called the dog "my little soul dog" cuz from the start we were not to be parted. The guys at the pet shop still talk about the first day i came in with her. two days later she was visiting a specialist for her eye. And thats when the truth came out - he said "I will tell you about this, if you promise not to find the owners or return it." well, she and i were one by then so a promise like that wasn't to hard... seems the doctor had treated this dog three times before and that the owners didn't want to have the surgery needed for the dog - instead they claimed she was lost...this doctor new better cuz hunting dogs don't "get lost" less than two miles from their home...you guessed - her owners had turned her out in the middle of winter cuz she had a medical condition (fixable!) that they didn't want to deal with. (Some people!!)
Since then, bug and i have become inseparable. Bug now has a fake eye. She still has some flashbacks, hates men wearing baseball caps , is terrified of water falling on her - but loves to swim (i think the rain reminds her of not getting back inside), and is on the petite side - but gosh...like all of with your dogs - i love her dearly, totally and completely. I sometimes feel as though she rescued me.
She is my first dog - the lessons i've learned...but thats another story for another day!
Thank you for letting me share