“I thought I could save her and give her a longer life, though sadly she was only with us for seventeen months.
After Suzi died, the group that we fostered her for, called Ready for Rescue, contacted us to see if we were too heartbroken or ready to foster again.
My husband and I decided that we could either be selfish and be grief stricken for six months or so, or we could give another abandoned dog a chance.
Suzi died on the 15th of March and Ellie was abandoned on the 17th of March.”
” The first month my ex-boyfriend and I started dating, my fourteen year old black lab, Calvin, died.
He came with me when it was time to euthanize him.
That was definitely a bonding experience.
After 6 months of dating we moved in together and I insisted we get a dog.
He didn’t want a dog, so we put it off for a month.”
“That was a long time ago, but I didn’t know if I wanted to go through that again.
It was a tremendous loss.
I still look at photos of him and tear up.
I also didn’t know, if Ike would live up to the standards of my last dog.
But, my daughter pulled the card of being an only child, and I caved.”
“I had to come to grips with my reasons for not getting a dog.
Primarily, I thought the city is not a place for a big dog, and I only wanted a big dog.
Also, we travel a lot, I didn’t want to pick up poop, and I just didn’t want another responsibility.
But that was only partially the reason, the other being that I hadn’t gotten over the loss of my last dog.”
“We had large dogs and when they started dying of old age we decided to downsize the dogs.
I travel a lot and missed my dogs, so I decided to get dogs that I could take on a plane.
Mr. Bert came first.
My daughter, sister and I were on a road trip passing thru Portland, Oregon and my daughter had to visit a rescue shelter for small dogs a block away from where we were staying.
Our big dog had died a few months before .”
“We got Preston as a result of a sad event.
We’ve always had Vizsla’s and Preston is our third.
Our first Vizsla, Lucas died at 15 years old, and we got a puppy soon after, called Theo.
We were on vacation and Theo was hit by a car at 20 months and died instantly.
We were devastated and a breeder friend of ours called and said he had a male Vizsla that was a six month old failed show dog that needed a home.”
