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| Baby Rusty |
Three years ago, we lost Rusty, a rescue dog from the Navajo
Nation in Arizona. He was Red Heeler mix from a working cattle dog momma, which
is all we knew for sure about him. We called him “the smartest dog in the world”
and we loved him dearly for eleven years. Until recently, we hadn’t even
considered getting another dog. He’d been just too special.
A few weeks back, we were in one of those puppy mill pet
stores because our granddaughter is a dog loving little girl. She has two of
her own, but loves to visit pet stores. One of the puppies took a
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| Old Rusty |
We both played around on some Internet rescue sites. I even
applied for one puppy, but was told because we didn’t have a doggie door, we
couldn’t adopt from them. Another puppy looked like a possibility, but the
price was high, and he wouldn’t be ready for a few weeks. I honestly can’t
remember how I came upon Black Hat Humane Society. When I did, our search
looked up. They didn’t have any silly rules about doggie doors, and they were
more reasonably priced. The kicker is they are the main rescue site for the
Navajo Nation. It served us well once. Why not again?
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| Amigo |
Cut to the next chapter. We found Amigo. I’m not going to
relate Amigo’s whole story today. That will be another blog post, if this all
works out. We have to travel 3 ½ hours to meet him. The foster mom will have to
travel nearly three hours to meet us, sort of in the middle. The first day we
had scheduled fell through. Then we were supposed to get him today, but her
schedule changed again. We are now set to pick him up tomorrow. Snow is in the
forecast for the Mogollon Rim. We can’t get to Gallup, NM without a trip along
the rim. Hopefully, the snow will be light like the weatherman is predicting or
this adoption will be postponed yet again.
All of this postponing and the wait now has my stomach and
my head in turmoil. Second thoughts are setting in. If we get there and he
doesn’t respond to us, we’ll have made a wasted trip. Is all this trouble a
sign we should forget it and find another dog? Or maybe not get a dog at all?
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| Amigo |
To be continued…
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