Can you rescue an animal in need?

[Math Is Hard]

I've got 2 rescue kitties. When I adopted them they were 10 and 18 years old (according to the shelter). Now they are 12 and 20. They are doing great.

This is a picture of my old man cat. The small inset picture was from the shelter website. He looked horrible when I first got him, but he grew into a big, fluffy, beautiful guy.

 

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I've got 2 rescue kitties. When I adopted them they were 10 and 18 years old (according to the shelter). Now they are 12 and 20. They are doing great.

This is a picture of my old man cat. The small inset picture was from the shelter website. He looked horrible when I first got him, but he grew into a big, fluffy, beautiful guy.

Yep, the old guy went from scruffy to fluffy!

 

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Has anybody here rescued a shelter animal this year? The holidays are a peak time for animal abandonment, and shelters (at least around here) are full.

Ironically, when the animal control picked up Duke, she called him a pit-bull. Apparently, the lanky legs, big paws, and webbed toes didn't tip her off that he is a Lab/mix. He spent 5 months in a shelter after being called a a pit-bull. The guy who cleaned the cages and took dogs for walks wanted to rescue Duke, but he already had 3 medium-sized dogs and couldn't afford to support another. When I told him that we'd take Duke, I thought he would kiss me.

My wife and I did a direct adoption of Lola, knowing that she is a pit-bull. She is one of the sweetest dogs ever, and friends and family want to steal her.

 

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My cat was a rescue. She was left at the shelter 3 times in her 4 year old life.

That is so sad!

 

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We have no idea how old Duke is. He was abandoned on the streets of a local town, and when we adopted him from the local shelter, the shelter personnel gave us some very enthusiastic and (too generous IMO) estimates of his youth. He was emaciated and fearful. When he acclimated to us, he suffered terribly from separation anxiety and I couldn't spend much time away from him without coming back home home to a distressed dog.

I went out that fall to plant garlic, and when I came back home he had climbed onto the bed (forbidden!) and took a dump on the comforter. He was ashamed when I came back in the house. There have been no similar instances. When you rescue a dog, you have to expect the unexpected.

 

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A few months ago I came across Toby, the one on the right. He belonged to an elderly lady who couldn't take care of him anymore. Daisy, the tree climbing mutt on the left has been remarkably good with him. Toby is a bit of a mystery. He is a cross between a toy poodle and a Spaniel, but doesn't really have the size nor weight of a Cockapoo.

He looks a bit bigger in the photo because he is in the foreground.

 

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Daisy really is a tree climbing mutt.