Whilst I was out in Romania at the Botosani PS.... I saw many dogs in need, in need of a home, human touch, love and kindness, a kind word something that every dog should have...in my world anyway. I really wasnt prepared for my first visions of the shelter, to actually walk in there and see before my eyes all that I had seen many times in pictures and videos was tenfold in reality. I wanted to walk out with every single dog there and the hardest parts of that day, was walking out without them. :( As I walked round the shelter, dumbstruck at the enormity of it all, just looking at all the dogs in each cage, row after row, I started to recognize some of the ones that I was making adoptions for and organizing transports.... and ones that friends were promoting on facebook for a home or funds.... the ones that were ill, old, shy, scared, the puppies, so many puppies and the recognition was a fleeting feeling of happiness and then an overwhelming feeling of sadness because no one had offered some of these dogs a home yet, so many with no interest or requests. The first time I shed tears was over a beautiful young mum and her four puppies, this was on my second day there, the first day I was too overwhelmed with shock and horror to let any tears flow. I stood outside the clinic and could here some crying, which I heard above all the barking of the other dogs in the shelter....I looked up at the old part of the shelter, where we are to have the recovery ward and in the first cage I saw a small face trying to push through the bars.... I walked over to see and there she stood on her hind legs crying to me, putting her paws through as if to reach out... I walked closer to reach my hand in to reassure her and then I saw the four tiny puppies huddled up in an old plastic bed with a blanket and my heart sank, I heard a voice say oh my god then realized it was mine :( I asked Daniel if I could go in.... a few minutes later she was at my feet, Daniel had let her out of the cage, she was cowering down unsure of me, but as I bent down she came closer and let me stroke her, she was scared, but all the time she wagged her tail like mad, which made me smile a little, then she had a little freedom so made the most of it for the 5 minutes before Daniel took her back and I asked if I could go and sit a while in the cage to see the puppies. Which I did, they were so warm and beautiful, so tiny..mum fussed around them a bit, I held one or two of them and thats when the tears came, I just thought what have you been born into, what a place for puppies to be, what future did they have? Of course I requested she be taken out into foster and that is where she is now...away from the chaos of the shelter, in foster with her babies, now they all have a fighting chance of a future. So tears of happiness flow for the chance they all now have. I am funding their foster as it was my decision although made on the spur of the moment, I know it was the right thing to do, and so glad I did. I am still trying to think of a special name for her
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:44:17 +0000
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