This is the first part of a remarkable rescue story told by
one of my customers with a heart of gold…
Sweetie’s Story
By Lisa Clark
Saint Patrick’s Day March 17, 2004. A day I had no way of recognizing at the time as the beginning of a three-month long quest to save a dog’s life. The day a colleague mentioned that a homeless female dog looking like a black lab was staying with her puppies in an abandoned house outside of Laurel, DE., in an area known as Columbia. My colleague told me about the dog because she knew that I wouldn’t be able to hear of a dog starving, left to fend for itself and protect her puppies, without wrapping my heart around the dog’s story and propelling myself to action.
Here’s a wonderful narrative from my new friend Avril (aka
Rosalie) who is a musician and fellow animal lover from the
Isles
“We started
the aviary over 10 years ago, more like 15, from two zebra finches purchased
from a local pet shop. Apart from a few “imports” to mix the gene
pool a bit, they have multiplied with enthusiasm, as you can see from the pics.
They are quite self regulating, actually, this incredibly fecund year follows a
couple of years when the population dwindled to a mere half dozen or so, but
this year is more than making up for it.
Suzette, one of my customers, sent me this wonderful story about her pit bull Vito:
“I acquired “Homer the Homeless” at 5 weeks old.
Having a 14 yr old Golden Retriever, I really did NOT want a puppy. Let alone a
pit bull.
As I told
you after our visit at The Veterinary convention in Ohio I wanted to let you
and all your other “fans” know how your beautiful jewelry helped
change the life of our dog and also change the way we treat our patients and
clients.
My new friend Jamie took Lady home with her last night.
Donna’s apartment for a first meeting. (I discovered I had a slight cat allergy
when Lady was in our home and had to move her back there for a few days.)
For several days now Lady the snowshoe Siamese cat has been sharing
our home. It’s been years since I’ve been covered with cat hair and demands for
pets, and it’s all coming back to me now. I could really get used to this, if only I was a “stay-at-home” artist.
Lady the cat is a beautiful snowshoe Siamese that has shared her life with my husband’s Cousin Donna for the past few years.
Donna is an elderly and much loved relative whom we moved from her single existence in Los Angeles to an apartment in Clearwater so she’d have family around her. This was a little over a year ago, and we’ve enjoyed having Donna and her beautiful cat in our lives.
I read an article in USA TODAY recently about the latest wave in animal shelters.
These shelters of the future are upscale with not a cage in sight. The dogs relax in glass den-like boxes with doors that can be opened by the prospective new owner so the two can get to know each other.
I couldn’t resist reading the story about Amos the donkey from Minnesota who fell into a well.
The funny thing was, when I typed it into the search engine to read more about it, the first several entries were about a famous parable of the same name- A donkey that fell in the well!
The story of Winter, the dolphin who lost her tail in a run-in with a buoy line in a crab trap really touched me.
Apparently she was tangled in this line and when she tried to get away it tightened around her tail. The blood flow was cut off from the flukes causing her tail to eventually fall off.