Thursday, September 13, 2012

Bonnie's Happy Tail!

Every now and then, we think it's important to share our happy tail stories.  One of our favorites is Bonnie.  She was abandoned at the pound.  Her forever mom Barbara tells Bonnie's story better than we can:

After losing the love of our lives, Trixie rescued back in 1998 from a New Jersey shelter, we knew we would rescue again. Although, Allie our sato rescue was a comfort to us, I needed another black and white border collie mix in the house. Nick didn’t think that he was ready yet; but I was compelled to put out the feelers. I emailed and filled-out forms to every border collie rescue that I could find. Then on one Saturday, I just sat with my laptop on petfinder and went page by page determined that the right one was out there waiting for us. There were more than 57 pages with the criteria I had entered. Half way thru, I happened upon Bonnie. The big problem was that Bonnie was over 1000 miles away in a pound. There were just 3 photos and a brief description. But from my experience with dogs, I could see a happy, fairly confident little dog in those photos. Allie came from a fearful background; and although has overcome most of her fears after 2 years of positive training and patience, we knew that we should not have 2 fear based dogs living together as they would feed off of each other. We emailed Emily to inquire on Bonnie and with God’s help we were led on a path to a successful adoption against all odds.

Nick and Barbara have provided Bonnie -- now Sadie --  with a wonderful home on the beach!  Sadie even has a private beach in her backyard where she plays in the sand.



Sadie also goes on boat rides with Nick, Barbara, and Allie!  Allie had to show her the ropes at first, but Sadie does just fine now.  We miss Sadie, but we are so happy for her!  Thank you, Nick & Barbara!