[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Mimi - The World Forgot About You
- From: Les Salowski <sheppup@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cimarrongsd@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:36:16 -0400
On 10/19/2010 9:22 PM, steve d. wrote:
> Mimi came to me in June of 2008. She was about 8 years old.
> Mimi was the victim of a world that did not want her.
> Animal control had picked her and her two older pups up.
> They had been tied up for a good part of their life and neglected
> by an owner who either did not care or perhaps came upon hard times.
> She had spent several months at the shelter. Her pups were
> eventually adopted, but Mimi waited and waited for her owner
> to return. It never happened. Mimi was very rambunctious
> when the shelter people or a potential adopter approached
> her pen. She was so rambunctious that she became a burden
> for the shelter. She was too old and too much of a pain to
> adopt, so they approached a nearby German Shepherd rescue
> about taking her. For whatever reason, she was refused again.
> Several weeks went by with still no adoption. The shelter
> decided it was time for her to go. She had to be gone by
> the week's end, or she was going to get the blue juice.
>
> Some how I received word about her peril. I called the shelter
> and asked them to give her a reprieve until Saturday.
> They agreed.
>
> That Saturday I picked Mimi up. We stopped at McDonalds
> and I 'treated' her to a plain cheeseburger and some French fries.
> She gently took them from my hand and then proceeded to
> lay in the front seat of my pickup with her nose up on the window,
> watching all the traffic go by-just like it must have been before,
> at a time when she was important to someone.
>
> A little over two years have elapsed and Mimi finally slowed down.
> She no longer ran around the yard at mach one. She always downed
> her food right away, that is until this last weekend, when she left
> some. I thought that was unusual of her. It was.
> She had grown tired of waiting for her owner to return to make
> things like they had used to be. Her heart had grown tired of
> all the excitement when she thought people were coming to
> visit her.
>
> She passed away today after growing tired of waiting for the
> world to remember her.
>
> Tomorrow, I will work at giving her a forever home -
> a small plot of ground at the less traveled portion of my yard-
> where her memory will become nothing more than a small
> indentation in the soil.
>
> /steve d.
> Happiness is German Shepherd slobber on your car window.
>
>
>
>
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