sdshorty
06-27-2008, 10:47 AM
I have a couple of stories today :)
Stories provided by the Animal Rescue Site. Everytime you go to the site and click the special link, you provide 1 1/2 bowls of food for a homeless animal. You can sign up to get daily reminders to click everyday and help animals in need :yes.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_ars_animalstories_leftnav_logo
Rosie & Meisha
http://cdn.theanimalrescuesite.com/charityusa_vitalstream_com/ctg/p3/images/content/Rescue-rosiemeisha_170x120.jpg?cb=1214575200000
Meisha and Rosie came into our lives after our rescued Border Collie, Louie, left this Earth. Their mother had been abandoned in a field, and at a couple of weeks of age she moved her litter into the back of a working soda-pop machine at a local grocery store. A kind employee of the store rescued all four kittens, and then finally the mother. She nursed them to health and offered them to us for adoption. They are the best of friends, and have enriched our lives enormously! We feel very fortunate to give them their forever inside-home together.
~Trudylee & Jack Fleming
Springfield, Oregon
Smokey Jo
http://cdn.theanimalrescuesite.com/charityusa_vitalstream_com/ctg/p3/images/content/Rescue-smokeyjoe_170x120.jpg?cb=1214575200000
Smokey Joe is a tough little Welsh/Rocky Mountain pony who had been horribly abused. My friend Ruth, a horse trainer and Joe's first angel, found him. The first few days were touch-and-go. He was so frightened of people. After a week at the clinic, and a month in rehab, Ruth was able to take him home. She turned him in to a secure pasture where he could see what was going on, but would be away from the frenetic training barn. Ruth didn't have much time to spend with him, so she started looking for angel number two. That's where Grace came in.
My mare Grace was in training with Ruth and was about to come home, so Ruth put her in the small pasture with Joe until I could pick her up. They fell in love. I had sold all my other horses, so was going to have Grace at home alone for the first time in her life. When I came to get Gracie, she fretted and danced around while we were trying to load her in the trailer, then she just planted her feet and would not go in. That was when Joe made a decision. He quietly walked past Grace and stepped right into the trailer, then turned as if to say, "come on, I'll go with you". Grace jumped right in beside him and they rode home together.
That was almost a year ago. Joe is still fearful of strangers, but he now allows me to catch him and groom him, pick up his feet, and trim his mane. There are patches of white hair over the scars, but they are almost undetectable for his dapples. He sometimes still panics if he feels closed in, but he knows in his heart that he has a forever home where no one will hurt him, because he has his angel, Grace, (and me) to watch over him.
~Anonymous
Stories provided by the Animal Rescue Site. Everytime you go to the site and click the special link, you provide 1 1/2 bowls of food for a homeless animal. You can sign up to get daily reminders to click everyday and help animals in need :yes.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_ars_animalstories_leftnav_logo
Rosie & Meisha
http://cdn.theanimalrescuesite.com/charityusa_vitalstream_com/ctg/p3/images/content/Rescue-rosiemeisha_170x120.jpg?cb=1214575200000
Meisha and Rosie came into our lives after our rescued Border Collie, Louie, left this Earth. Their mother had been abandoned in a field, and at a couple of weeks of age she moved her litter into the back of a working soda-pop machine at a local grocery store. A kind employee of the store rescued all four kittens, and then finally the mother. She nursed them to health and offered them to us for adoption. They are the best of friends, and have enriched our lives enormously! We feel very fortunate to give them their forever inside-home together.
~Trudylee & Jack Fleming
Springfield, Oregon
Smokey Jo
http://cdn.theanimalrescuesite.com/charityusa_vitalstream_com/ctg/p3/images/content/Rescue-smokeyjoe_170x120.jpg?cb=1214575200000
Smokey Joe is a tough little Welsh/Rocky Mountain pony who had been horribly abused. My friend Ruth, a horse trainer and Joe's first angel, found him. The first few days were touch-and-go. He was so frightened of people. After a week at the clinic, and a month in rehab, Ruth was able to take him home. She turned him in to a secure pasture where he could see what was going on, but would be away from the frenetic training barn. Ruth didn't have much time to spend with him, so she started looking for angel number two. That's where Grace came in.
My mare Grace was in training with Ruth and was about to come home, so Ruth put her in the small pasture with Joe until I could pick her up. They fell in love. I had sold all my other horses, so was going to have Grace at home alone for the first time in her life. When I came to get Gracie, she fretted and danced around while we were trying to load her in the trailer, then she just planted her feet and would not go in. That was when Joe made a decision. He quietly walked past Grace and stepped right into the trailer, then turned as if to say, "come on, I'll go with you". Grace jumped right in beside him and they rode home together.
That was almost a year ago. Joe is still fearful of strangers, but he now allows me to catch him and groom him, pick up his feet, and trim his mane. There are patches of white hair over the scars, but they are almost undetectable for his dapples. He sometimes still panics if he feels closed in, but he knows in his heart that he has a forever home where no one will hurt him, because he has his angel, Grace, (and me) to watch over him.
~Anonymous