Best Friends

As you know, the economy is not great right now. This affects pets in a few different ways: First, when people are short on cash, they often stop spending money on their pets (hence the rescue group getting tons of dogs that are sick and/or heartworm positive). Second, foreclosures sometimes mean families having to give up their pets when they move. This is what happened in the case of the two girls I pulled from a local shelter last week. The dogs are eight years old and were turned in to the shelter when their owners lost their home due to foreclosure. They had lived together with the same family since they were puppies, and it was very sweet how attached they were to one another.

When I got the shelter, they brought the dogs out to me one at a time. When they brought the first girl out, you could tell she had NO idea what was going on. You can't explain home foreclosures to dogs. Imagine having lived in the same place your entire life, in the same comfortable home with the same people, and all of a sudden being dropped off someplace as scary as an animal shelter. She was just trembling....UNTIL they brought out her friend. You could tell that being separated from one another, even for a short time, was terrifying. Once they were reunited, all was well! They hopped in the car (eager to get the heck out of the shelter, I'm sure), and we had an uneventful ride to the vet's office.

It was just really sweet that it seemed like even though they were unsure of where they were and where they were going, they were happy to have each other.