When it Rains it Pours

Seriously. First surrender due to the economy two days ago. Since then we have had two more. That is four dogs in two days. One step forward and two steps back. Barney, above got out of his yard and has been quite the hyper guy for his Guardian. She was not able to keep him anymore due to losing her job, so he is at animal control today. We are in the process of working out the rescue logistics. Poor Barney. He just has so much energy. He desperately needs an active home. A home who loves to go on walks and run and go hiking. I really think he would be a fabulous dog if someone would just put the time into him. He reminds me of my first dog Bailey, who was totally out of his mind, crazy. If he did not get his walk, he would find a way out of my apartment in college and take himself for a walk. He was too smart for his own good. Everyone else thought he was a stupid hyper dog, but really he was just super smart and energetic. He was a lot of work, but so rewarding.

And then, we received a phone call from Belleville Animal Control. Bowser, a dog we adopted out in 2006 was surrendered by his owner 9 days ago! They did not call us until yesterday. They are making it rather difficult for us to come rescue him. We are registered to his microchip and his owner surrendered him, but they are saying that they cannot release him to us since we are not the owner. Hmmm. They are threatening that we cannot rescue him after today, so we are working on using publicity as a threat. I am sure they would not like to be on the news about this. I don't understand why anyone would make it so difficult to save a dog's life. It just does not make sense. We are just a small non profit trying to help this dog. It is infuriating.

To those of you who love your dogs and take such great care and are devoted to them through good times and bad, please give yourselves a big hug. When problems arise, you understand that there are solutions to those problems. Thank you.