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Ok. first let me tell you that we have been under a bit of stress lately. We are trying to move and relocate to another area.
2 years ago we lost our guy Tucker to liver cancer. We have always wanted to get another male but we decided that instead of going for a puppy we would wait and when the 'right' guy came along we would adopt/rescue him.
Today I had to go to town to get some ink for the fax machine and for some unknown reason I felt a strong urge to swing across town and go to the H/S. My feet just pointed me in the right direction and 'there he was' The most handsome man I've seen in years. He's got the face of an angle, but the back legs of a guy who looks like he's seen one too many days in a confined area. But the depths in his eyes went on forever and just getting down and talking to him was like I was talking to an old friend.
Yes, I think you are the one.
So, I asked if I could find out any info on him and this young guy walks in the cage and starts grabbing at this poor guys mouth. No "how are you, hello," of anything. This fellow could have bit him for all the stupid things he was trying to do. I asked, if he needed help the way he was trying to force the dogs mouth open. The guy would still gentle back away and raised his paw and 'almost' put it on him but didn't. What a gentle dog.
And the guy says, Well I can't tell because he's a difficult animal.WTF???????
So I asked, do you have an area where I can take him out in to get introduced. I wanted to see how he would react out of the 'pen' enviroment. I was told, in order to take him out, I would have to fill in a 50 question adoption form and have 2 references and wait till the file was reviewed and my credentials were checked.
I again tried to expain that I just wanted to have him out of the pen for a few minutes to see if we would 'mesh' before I went through all of the 'legal' formalities. But he said no, you can't take him out until all the paper work was done.!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, remember at the first of this I said I have been under stress lately? Well, I told him that I thought this was the most stupid way to work things and no wonder they have so much problems adopting. (Last week there was a story on the news about this particular shelter and how they wanted more people to adopt an older pet) I grabbed the form and headed out the door and with the full intentions of filling them out but my big mouth got in the way and I said,
It would be easier to bring a dog in from the states then to bother with you.
I'm so sorry I lost it. I cried all the way home. All I could think of was that beautiful boy and that said worried look on his face. I just want to bring him home.
To add insult to injury, when I first asked about the dog they had to go get this person and he wanted me to take him to the pen to physiclly see the dog. So we went back there and we are standing in front of the pen and he goes over to a chart and says, so your interested in a chocolate lab!!!! I had to show him in the file (that up to that moment I didn't know existed) where it said GSD and the info.
OK, I'm not going to rant anymore.
Someone, give me your comments on this, I still can't get that guys face out of my head. Could it be love?
2 years ago we lost our guy Tucker to liver cancer. We have always wanted to get another male but we decided that instead of going for a puppy we would wait and when the 'right' guy came along we would adopt/rescue him.
Today I had to go to town to get some ink for the fax machine and for some unknown reason I felt a strong urge to swing across town and go to the H/S. My feet just pointed me in the right direction and 'there he was' The most handsome man I've seen in years. He's got the face of an angle, but the back legs of a guy who looks like he's seen one too many days in a confined area. But the depths in his eyes went on forever and just getting down and talking to him was like I was talking to an old friend.
Yes, I think you are the one.
So, I asked if I could find out any info on him and this young guy walks in the cage and starts grabbing at this poor guys mouth. No "how are you, hello," of anything. This fellow could have bit him for all the stupid things he was trying to do. I asked, if he needed help the way he was trying to force the dogs mouth open. The guy would still gentle back away and raised his paw and 'almost' put it on him but didn't. What a gentle dog.
And the guy says, Well I can't tell because he's a difficult animal.WTF???????
So I asked, do you have an area where I can take him out in to get introduced. I wanted to see how he would react out of the 'pen' enviroment. I was told, in order to take him out, I would have to fill in a 50 question adoption form and have 2 references and wait till the file was reviewed and my credentials were checked.
I again tried to expain that I just wanted to have him out of the pen for a few minutes to see if we would 'mesh' before I went through all of the 'legal' formalities. But he said no, you can't take him out until all the paper work was done.!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, remember at the first of this I said I have been under stress lately? Well, I told him that I thought this was the most stupid way to work things and no wonder they have so much problems adopting. (Last week there was a story on the news about this particular shelter and how they wanted more people to adopt an older pet) I grabbed the form and headed out the door and with the full intentions of filling them out but my big mouth got in the way and I said,
It would be easier to bring a dog in from the states then to bother with you.
I'm so sorry I lost it. I cried all the way home. All I could think of was that beautiful boy and that said worried look on his face. I just want to bring him home.
To add insult to injury, when I first asked about the dog they had to go get this person and he wanted me to take him to the pen to physiclly see the dog. So we went back there and we are standing in front of the pen and he goes over to a chart and says, so your interested in a chocolate lab!!!! I had to show him in the file (that up to that moment I didn't know existed) where it said GSD and the info.
OK, I'm not going to rant anymore.
Someone, give me your comments on this, I still can't get that guys face out of my head. Could it be love?