Bea arrived at the shelter on July 15, 2010. Ten years old, tick infested, only five bottom teeth and three large mammary tumors that just hung there. Bea is just one of many that find themselves in this situation when the people they love abandon them. “She was an old dog that was left at a shelter to die”.
Shaking, fearful, stiff, pancaking and crouching in the outside kennel area just lying in her urine afraid to move. She was just trying to melt into the cement walls hoping not to be noticed.
If it wasn’t for a volunteer with a large heart getting in the kennel and interacting with her and getting her out I would not be blessed with the sweet little white dog that lives in my home today. Shortly after taking her into foster a wonderful rescue provided surgery to have the tumors removed and spay her, as long as I was willing to keep her. For months we carried our little princess around from room to room on her dog bed allowing her wounds to heal and help her feel comfortable with us holding her.
Almost four years later our sweet Bea is sleeping in bed with a family member, dancing for treats, holding her own when it comes to the big dogs and enjoying a yard to run or just nap in the sun. She acts as if she has lived with us her whole life and the past is in the past.
Her sight is starting to go now but she is still loving life and that is what is important. I know we will not have her with us forever and our time with her in our home will be short but what I do know is that her life was worth saving and giving her a chance to enjoy her senior years.
I have always said a foster animal teaches us a lesson, Bea lesson was “not to give up on people and to forgive.”
Loretta Myers