Re: [PyrNet-L] CHAT: Update from our place

[Daniel Rice <cody@ncweb.com>]

Thank you so very much. Just about when I give up on the human race along comes
some one with a heart. What you did made me think about how much I do care about
people and do enjoy helping them. You have given so much to both sides what can I
say but the award of love and caring should go to you if there is such a thing
and if not there should be.
Thank You

Dan R
Cody&Kira
?

MagEBroD@aol.com wrote:

>    Many of you are aware that for the past few weeks I have been very tied up
> caring for my 83 yr. old neighbour that had been abused by her granddaughter
> and had come to live with us after the authorities deemed it too dangerous
> for her to return home.  Well, after 3 weeks of putting up with 11 angry
> phone calls from her abusive granddaughter and her husband,  2 face-to-face
> confrontations, a hateful note on my door, and finally this cold-hearted
> granddaughter throwing her grandmother's clothing & furniture outside that we
> had not yet all moved out (although we had moved out about 15 carloads
> already). What they had decided not to steal from her anyway! Amazing how
> rotten some people can get!  Anyway, my little ol' lady is now in an adult
> family home that Albert and I do pet therapy at and I have all her belongings
> safely there or in storage.  So we can all breathe a sigh of relief now.
>    During these past weeks I have been a stranger here to the Pyr lists as I
> was so busy caring for her and trying to find her a place to live and moving
> her.  The real sad note here is that she had to give up her little
> chihuahua-mix dog Gypsy that she loved.  (There was a waiting list that may
> be years' long before she could get in a place that would let her keep her
> dog that she could afford.)  She wanted to take it to a shelter at first and
> I refused as it was not an emergency:  I was willing to care for Gypsy until
> a good home could be found.  I explained to her that shelters are only to be
> used in EMERGENCIES when a dog's life or safety is at stake like when it is
> abandoned or abused.  NOT for the convenience of humans!!!  Then she thought
> of having it put down because it was older and also because it had been
> abused before her and it takes a while to earn Gypsy's trust.   I said that
> we owed it to Gypsy to at least try to find her a good home because she found
> a good home with her once.  Hopefully it will happen again I said.  Well we
> did find a wonderful home for her Gypsy. They all took to each other right
> away and it seemed like a great match!  A tearful parting, but that is to be
> expected.  I did take lots of photos of her and Gypsy, though before Gypsy
> left with her new family.
>    I told her that, although I am no longer her caregiver, I will always be
> her friend and she can beat me at Dominos and card games and Kismet many more
> times in our future!!  And she can always count on me to be there for her
> when she needs a friend. She is so very thankful to be out of that former
> home and with people who care about her now and where she is safe.  One thing
> that did happen throughout all this was that Albert once again worked his
> magic.  This woman has been terrified of big dogs for over 70 years since she
> was brutally attacked by a german shepard once.  Yet when she was in the
> hospital she insisted on coming out to the car to say hi to my family once
> when they were there with the dogs.  She looked at Albert and he looked at
> her and a miracle happened!  She reached in and hugged him hard and he kissed
> her!!!  She was hooked!!  70 years of fear melted away!!  When she was at our
> home she loved to see Albert and Albert and Gypsy played so cute together!!
> She got the biggest kick out of seeing her 13 yr. old chihuahua-mix dog play
> with Albert and be so thrilled to see him!!  She'd never seen her dog play
> before!!  (If Mattie would have not been growling at Gypsy I might have
> considered keeping Gypsy for her... but Mattie insists on being the top
> female dog here now & worried there might be a fight and her dog get hurt and
> it would upset her so I didn't want to chance it permanently.)
>    At least she took to Albert and now really looks forward to our visits
> there.  There is just something about these Pyrs' eyes that really get to
> people.   I certainly know I am hooked!!
>    This is long so I will share some Albert tales in my next post that I had
> not written about lately. So stay tuned........ To be continued.....
>
> :)  &  :)```   (me grinning & Albert grinning & drooling!)
>
> See Albert's photo at:
> http://www.sonic.net/~cdlcruz/pyr-l/pyrlpix3.htm#Albert
>
> Janice Vocke
> MagEBroD@aol.com
> Shelton, WA.
>
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