Please see my post under "animal rescue". I am in need of good homes for my little darlings.

That's really sweet. Lucky Vernon to have found such a nice home. Sort of makes you wonder though how he got there doesn't it? The best thing though is that you and your partner have given this ball of fur a loving home along with all your other animals.

Back i***** I convinced my husband to get a dog. He wanted a "Man" dog, a big, strong, powerful dog and I wanted a poodle or small lap dog. He said he didn't want any "sissy" dog. So we went to the Animal Protection League and looked on their computer for dogs that owners wanted to get rid of. There were no pictures, only descriptions. We decided on a few dogs, both small dogs and "Man" dogs. One of the "Man" dogs was a boxer mix. She was 9 months old. I decided to go and see it, and it was wild, very excited, jumped all over me. I instantly fell in love with her, and took her home with me that night. My husband was just estatic that I'd gotten a "Man" dog. We named her Tabby. After chewing up the furniture, my shoes, the afghans, the carpet, she settled down, and Tabby has turned out to be the best dog. Very protective. Very lovable. Just beautiful. She will be 10 years old next May. And she has turned out to be a lap dog anyway. My husband will be in the easy chair, and Tabby (all 65 pounds of her) will jump up into his lap and lay there asleep. In 1999, my cousin called me from Louisiana, and asked if we'd take a small dog, a lap dog. My husband instantly said NO but once I found out that if no one took this dog, they were going to put her down, I told my cousin to bring her up to us immediately!! My husband was NOT real happy with me. Her name is Bella Mae. She is a Shih Tsu. I think this is how to spell it. When we went over to pick her up, she immediately went up to my husband and licked him repeatedly, and he was hooked. She also is very lovable, licking us all the time. She is a lover and a snuggler. She will be 10 years old next year also.

One day while my husband and I were coming home from church right in the middle of the road, in front of our towns garbage dump was what I thought to be a small pile of garbage. My husband said honey I think that's a live animal of some sort and I told him to go get it. What do you want with that dirty thing he asked ? I can't tell you what I wanted it for but, the thought of someone running over it was going to bother me so he jumped out of the car and brought the nasty thing to me. It was a dog I thought! It was so matted and dirty that you couldn't tell the head form it's tail. He had dry asfault on his feet and there was pine staw stuck to them. His hair in the middle of his back was long enough that it also was stuck to his feet and he couldn't move. Wen I got him home I tried to cut away the matting but soon realized I couldn't tell the differance in the matting and his dirty skin. I was afraid I would cut him to pieces. I then attempted to wash him, but it got worse. I finally gave up and took this thing to a dog groomer hoping to be able to tell what this thing was. To my surprise, 8 hours later and $65.00 worth of work I thought they had given me some one else's dog. He was beautiful! He is a full blooded laspso opso. He has white hair with a small bit of silver markings. We tried to find the owner, but decided quickly that he was abanded. He is wonderful. We took him for his shots and an exam and he is just fine. We've had him for 5 years now . The vet told us that he was probably only 6 or 8 months old at the time we found him. So we probably will have him a long time. What a joy he brings our life. He's our empty nest dog, our children are grown and he also travels with us in our motor home, which he loves.