for her heartworm treatment.
Considering her awsome story, we are happily surprised
that heartworms is the only big problem Patti has. We
received an email from a trucker who had been feeding a
homeless Tzu for quite some time. She found our Rescue
on the web & wrote to tell us about this dog who was
completely matted and living in a pile of tires on an
abandoned lot next to a church. Talk about a needle in a
haystack! With the temperatures predicted in the mid
twenties that night, we knew she needed rescued quickly!
Julie, one of our volunteers, drove WAAAAAY over
there, found the little girl in the vacant lot and took her
to our veterinarian. Incredibly, this little dog wouldn't
go to anybody else but Julie!
Patty Fulenwider
Anne B Ward
Anne Laquidara
Patricia Dadamo
Joyce Hillebrand
is the matted pelt that was shaved off Patties back!
OK, I am home, showered, and clothes in the washer. I got Patty this afternoon from her previous home which was
a stack of maybe 20 discarded tires laying on the edge of some church property near a road used by 18 wheelers
dropping and picking up loads. The lady that saw her and notified us is a truck driver named Rikki that had been
trying to catch her for about a month. She was never able catch her but was feeding her.
I would NEVER have found the place much less the dog if Rikki had not met me on I 10 to follow her truck to the
dog. I would never have seen her as she was just a brownish movement in the brown underbrush. I missed picking
her up the first time as I was not sure if what I saw was no hair at all which could be contagious mange. I was also
not sure if she would try to bite the snot out of me. Then I just got my ground cover, crate and leash, and sat
down to discuss her situation with her.
I guess she listened as she then went back to her "den" under two tires that she obviously had used for quite some
time and I walked over and picked her up. No fuss. She is a poodle, eventually will be gray or maybe brown, a young
adult we think, and looks spayed.
A man came over as soon as I had her in a crate and he asked if I caught it. Turns out this man had been feeding
her for TWO years! There had been a house on the church property that had been abandoned along with several
dogs. She was the last one. The house burned down seven months ago and Patty took to living in the tires. This man
also went over everyday and fed her along with several truck drivers. Yes she is plump. He had been able to catch
many of the other dogs left there, but not her.
Pattie was bouncing all around the vets office when I took her out of the crate. She ran to each pair of legs and
did the paw wave. She had a shoe string tied around her neck, thank goodness not tight. I am glad I could go and
that she is now safe.
Lady Jane's Legacy
dedicated to several of our
foster dogs who have now gone to
the rainbow bridge.
Boogie
Tiffany
Princess
Fifi
Phoebe
Paige
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