BILL ANNOUNCES: This is Bill and Juana with a special report on adoptions at Straydog in March and April of 2018. Juana’s got the report. Go ahead Juana!
JUANA: March and April were very good months and several of our dogs were adopted. We have been mentioning our recent rescues on Facebook lately, but we haven’t talked very much about the wonderful adoptions that we’ve had in March and April. It’s already the beginning of May and these dogs are all still in their forever homes. So these are all successful adoptions!
JUANA: March and April were very good months and several of our dogs were adopted. We have been mentioning our recent rescues on Facebook lately, but we haven’t talked very much about the wonderful adoptions that we’ve had in March and April. It’s already the beginning of May and these dogs are all still in their forever homes. So these are all successful adoptions!
On March 7, Timbo found his forever home. You might remember Timbo. He’s a weenie dog. One of our neighbors found him and called us. He was so very fat, so we called him Timbo, like Timbone – fat baby. He’s a fat boy and he’s very, very happy in his forever home.
I don’t know if you remember Star, Miranda and Faith. Miranda and Star were full-blooded Dachshunds, who were about 13 years old. Faith was a nine-year-old Chihuahua. One of Morton Clinic’s customers was taken into hospice and she had these three babies all of their lives. She wanted us to take them and she didn’t care if they were adopted together or separately. She just wanted them to have good homes. We tried separating them several times and they were perfectly fine. Star was adopted on March 27. She’s a long-haired, black weenie dog.
Miranda was adopted on March 8, after the RV Show. A couple fell in love with her there.
And Operation Kindness called us and told us that they would take Faith. If you have ever had Chihuahuas, as we do, you know that they aren’t always the sweetest dogs. Some of them think they are bullies. But this little girl was so very, very sweet, even though she didn’t know us. Our Allie is also a very, very sweet Chihuahua. Our volunteer and board member Pam volunteers with and is also on the board at Operation Kindness. So Faith went to Operation Kindness and she was adopted very quickly. She’s still doing well.
Bentley is a Great Pyrenees mix and he’s such a beautiful boy. He was at the Gala. Well, he was adopted on March 10 and he’s doing very well.
Sasha also found her forever home in March. Her new family saw her at our Special Easter Adoption Day Event at Neiman Marcus at the Shops At Willowbend in Plano. She was just a young puppy and our latest report on her was that she was doing terrific.
Copper found his forever home on April 7. You might remember sweet kennelmates Copper and Cadet. We were a little concerned at first, because the family interested in Copper had never had a dog. But the lady assured me that she had a dog growing up and she knew what to do. At first, he was peeing on the furniture and everything else. She got him into a routine and then he realized what he was supposed to do. She also took him to training at PetSmart and that really helped. He’s settled into his wonderful forever home and we are so very happy for him.
Marci gave birth to 10 or 11 puppies on Mother’s Day last year. We took all of the puppies to Operation Kindness, except for one. All of the pups taken to Operation Kindness were adopted. We kept one, because we had someone interested in him, but that fell through. On “Clear the Shelters Day,” which was a special adoption day, that puppy found a forever home. We then took Marci to Adoption Day events. She went to Adoption Day so many times, because she loved to go and she loved to meet people. She was always ready to go. She is so very, very sweet and she’s young. The reason that Operation Kindness didn’t take sweet momma Marci was because she had heartworms. She was very energetic and we had to keep her quiet, while she was in treatment, and that was a chore. She’s so sweet and so full of energy. We kept taking her to Adoption Day and lots of families fell in love with her. We didn’t know what was going on. For some reason, no one followed through with an adoption. I think Marci was just waiting for the perfect family and the perfect family came along. This wonderful family has five energetic little girls and a Great Pyrenees already. Marci keeps them entertained and the girls keep Marci entertained. The parents are very happy with Marci, because it works both ways. Their Great Pyrenees never wanted to come in the house, no matter how hard they tried to get him to come inside. Marci has changed that. She taught the Great Pyrenees that is was okay to come inside and she has made him a happy boy. He learned to trust from Marci and Marci fits into that family so well. We have pictures of her adoption.
On April 16, Wookie found his forever home. He’s a Shih Tzu that we found in Straydog’s poop hole, believe it or not, and he couldn’t get out. I don’t know if someone dumped him there or if he was walking and fell into it. He couldn’t crawl out. He couldn’t even move. We thought he was dead. He was so matted and he was in such horrible shape. We cleaned him up and he found his forever home. He’s an older guy and he’s doing very well in his forever home.
Straydog contributors fell in love with Midnight at the Gala. They filled out an application on him and they didn’t have any other dogs. They were leaving on a trip and they wanted to wait and have a home visit after they returned. They adopted him on April 27 and he hit the big time. We were so very happy to see this boy in a good home, because he had been here for so long and he was kind of skittish and afraid to meet new people. But he is so very sweet and ready to be loved. The lady told us that, when he came to them, it took about three days of walking and walking him, before he would even go poop or even pee. I was starting to get worried and she was getting worried too. I asked her to give him one more chance and he finally went. Now he’s okay and he’s doing fine. Midnight finally made it to the big time.
The last one that I want to discuss is puppy Tucker. Wayne and his dad live out in the boondocks and they found this puppy out in the middle of nowhere. Someone must have dumped him. There aren’t many houses, near where they live, and they found two-month old, black Lab Tucker in their backyard. He’s a beautiful baby boy. We took him in and one of our new employees fell in love with him. He lives with his mother and they have another dog. At first, his mother didn’t want another dog. But once she met Tucker, she fell in love with him and carried him to the couch. He’s now the center of the family and he’s doing well. We’ve had several reports and he’s a very good boy.
All of these adoptions took place in March and April and they have all been very, very successful. All of these doggies are now in wonderful forever homes and we are ready for more.
BILL: Thank you very much. We’ll be back again soon with another report from Straydog.
You can listen to this report by downloading the file below.
BILL: Thank you very much. We’ll be back again soon with another report from Straydog.
You can listen to this report by downloading the file below.
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