08-09-2012, 07:32 AM
Hello Blue
Many of you that know me know that in addition to model railroading I have a passion for dogs, especially the Samoyed. If you really want to know the story of our involvement with the breed stories are posted here. <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.taffylaffy.com">www.taffylaffy.com</a><!-- w -->
To continue, some of you know we lost our heart dog Taffy on New Year’s day. Our other Samoyed was in mourning and had never been alone so we adopted a little dwarf Samoyed from Buckeye Samoyed Rescue, (I am a volunteer for them) after a 10 minute attempt at fostering him.
Last week (Tuesday) we found our little girl dead in the yard. We let her out to play with Mr. Beck and Happy, an 18-month-old, that we were fostering and when we called them for breakfast and they didn't come my wife found her. I tried to revive her, but to no avail. The vet thought she had had an aneurysm. She had a bout with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever when she was 3 months old and we almost lost her then.
We rushed her to Pittsburgh to the emergency clinic and they got her stabilized and she pulled through, but I always suspected she had brain damage.
The foster went to his forever home on Saturday, which was a match made in heaven. Three children ages 10-15 and mom and dad all instantly in love with him and they have previous Sammie experience. Happy needed a home with children, not a bunch of old people.
Well, after losing two wonderful companions that's it. Mary told me if I even mentioned another dog she would kill me, so that was that. No more chances for heartbreak.
Then it hit us Sunday morning and Mr. Beck was really showing how lonely he was. He is a very vocal guy, but he quit talking, and started to lay and was unresponsive, not even eating,
I was eating lunch and my wife said: She has to be around Tootsie’s age and really need a home: I said, what are you talking about, and she replied ‘a companion for Beck”
I have a few connections so I started working the net. I found 4 that met the criteria, but one of them had all ready been adopted. The other 3 had yet to be vetted so I was waiting for vet reports when one of the members of my Samoyed group sent me an email about a breeder surrender, and a contact email address. It turned out she wasn’t the lady with the dog, but her friend was, so she forwarded my email to her friend, and I got a reply with a phone number. When I called I found out she was not the lady with the dog, but her friend was, and could her friend call me. To finish this convoluted story, her friend called and we left Monday morning to pick up the girl, So after a 1200-mile round trip we are doing what we swore we wouldn’t do.
There will always be a very empty place in our heart for Taffy and Tootsie, and we will cry for them at times, but we have always known there are these furkids in shelters that need homes so we will find room in our hearts to provide for them as long as we are able. Closing our hearts because we can’t be in pain is not the right reason. I will continue to work with rescue as long as I can too. My trains are great, but not once has one of them cuddled next to me to give me a kiss.
:mrgreen:
Charlie
Many of you that know me know that in addition to model railroading I have a passion for dogs, especially the Samoyed. If you really want to know the story of our involvement with the breed stories are posted here. <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.taffylaffy.com">www.taffylaffy.com</a><!-- w -->
To continue, some of you know we lost our heart dog Taffy on New Year’s day. Our other Samoyed was in mourning and had never been alone so we adopted a little dwarf Samoyed from Buckeye Samoyed Rescue, (I am a volunteer for them) after a 10 minute attempt at fostering him.
Last week (Tuesday) we found our little girl dead in the yard. We let her out to play with Mr. Beck and Happy, an 18-month-old, that we were fostering and when we called them for breakfast and they didn't come my wife found her. I tried to revive her, but to no avail. The vet thought she had had an aneurysm. She had a bout with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever when she was 3 months old and we almost lost her then.
We rushed her to Pittsburgh to the emergency clinic and they got her stabilized and she pulled through, but I always suspected she had brain damage.
The foster went to his forever home on Saturday, which was a match made in heaven. Three children ages 10-15 and mom and dad all instantly in love with him and they have previous Sammie experience. Happy needed a home with children, not a bunch of old people.
Well, after losing two wonderful companions that's it. Mary told me if I even mentioned another dog she would kill me, so that was that. No more chances for heartbreak.
Then it hit us Sunday morning and Mr. Beck was really showing how lonely he was. He is a very vocal guy, but he quit talking, and started to lay and was unresponsive, not even eating,
I was eating lunch and my wife said: She has to be around Tootsie’s age and really need a home: I said, what are you talking about, and she replied ‘a companion for Beck”
I have a few connections so I started working the net. I found 4 that met the criteria, but one of them had all ready been adopted. The other 3 had yet to be vetted so I was waiting for vet reports when one of the members of my Samoyed group sent me an email about a breeder surrender, and a contact email address. It turned out she wasn’t the lady with the dog, but her friend was, so she forwarded my email to her friend, and I got a reply with a phone number. When I called I found out she was not the lady with the dog, but her friend was, and could her friend call me. To finish this convoluted story, her friend called and we left Monday morning to pick up the girl, So after a 1200-mile round trip we are doing what we swore we wouldn’t do.
There will always be a very empty place in our heart for Taffy and Tootsie, and we will cry for them at times, but we have always known there are these furkids in shelters that need homes so we will find room in our hearts to provide for them as long as we are able. Closing our hearts because we can’t be in pain is not the right reason. I will continue to work with rescue as long as I can too. My trains are great, but not once has one of them cuddled next to me to give me a kiss.
:mrgreen:
Charlie