Jazz & Kato... Beautiful Labs who were dumped and abandoned... We pulled them.. We spoke up for them and offered to give them another chance at life. Until the Parvo hit.
Its hard to explain the shattered feeling you can get for dogs you have never even met. And its hard to explain how its possible for fall so head over heels for a picture. One picture of one dog and you start to envision the future you are about to have with them.. Then then next second, they are snatched away from you by something so simple and stupid as Parvo.
One vaccination would have prevented it. If those previous owner hadnt dumped them out of their lives like garbage, they wouldnt have had the chance to contract the disease.. If only those dogs had been born elsewhere, maybe they would have been allowed a different path in life, with loving owners who would never even think such horrid thoughts as abandoning their precious 4 legged family members. If only two people had had the common sense and compassion to have their dogs spayed and neutered, then these particular dogs wouldnt have been born into such a terrifying world where its just human nature to turn away from your furry family because of 'lack of time', 'moving', 'a new baby'.. Or just because 'dont want to deal with them anymore'...
To those people... "Eff you". Kato & Jazz died today because of you. I think its amazing how people that I will never meet can tear me into so many pieces without ever knowing it the pain they caused... The trail of tears and fear and broken hearts...
Rest in Peace, babes... I hope you know that we truely loved you.Em & Cj
I awoke this Thursday morning much too early... Beating the alarm clock by about 30 minutes. So I hopped out of bed, started some coffee and got dressed for a cold morning walk with the hounds. (At this point, its just my Lab, Jake, and a foster dog named Daisy, a Pomeranian). I sucked down a cup of coffee, slapped some cold water on my face and we headed out the door...
The block behind me holds a couple of dogs whom I have been working on for about a year now. One is a big, beautiful Bull Mastiff female, who is kept in a little pen all day long. The second is a big male German Shepherd. He is chained outside much of the time. I had hoped to walk by and see this GSD in the house. But alas, he was laying out on the front stairs (which are made of nice, cold concrete) shivering in the brisk, Minnesota winter air. They had been better about bringing him inside on the below zero nights. But apparently, they dont feel that 5 degrees is cold...
He perks his ears and the tip of his beautiful tail moves at the sight of me and my mutts approaching. I always have a pocket full of biscut bones, and on the mornings that he's outside, I toss him a few. Nobody is awake in the house yet, all of the lights are still off. So I tell the mutts to 'hold' and walk into the front yard to give him a pet and a few kind words. He is such a sweet dog... He doesnt deserve this life. They feed him well enough, he is quite the big boy at around 100lbs. But food alone just isnt enough for a dog to survive on. The only thing he has right now is hope. Hopes that the sun will shine, and hopes that somebody will look at him with kind eyes. Maybe toss him a biscut or two. He hopes somebody will love him, that somebody will unclip that ugly chain. I'm working on it, buddy..
