All in the Family

Though this is about Bonz and his life as a newly knighted Tripod. I thought I would take a few moments to introduce you to his brothers and sisters. My wife and I have always been the best advocates we can for rescue groups and picking up lost kiddos on the streets and getting them back to their families when we can.   We have helped many along the way… and these are the stories of the ones that I guess you could say helped us.

This little guy is BUSTER. I say little. This is when we first got him he is a chunky monkey now. He was our neighbors dog. They went out of the Country for Christmas and left this little guy in the back yard by himself. They were supposed to be gone a week apparently but had problems getting back into the Country and ended up staying gone 6 months. We heard him barking the first few weeks but afterwards he gave up hope and retreated to his dog house do be depressed and alone. The lawn care people kept throwing him out food and water once every few weeks when they came by. Eventually he escaped the yard and we chased him around and finally caught him. He was with us about 3 months before they even came back.When the family came back the street kinda ganged up on them and said how horrible it was to leave a tiny 10 lb chihuahua mix outside in the rainy cold  of December and January and February. They said we could keep him. We were not really asking for permission lol. He was already chipped and tagged and licensed to us by then. We were surprised. We were always scared that Bonzai could not be around another dog. He usually attacks them. But he loved his little brother. They played and ran around all the time. We never realized how lonely Bonzai had been till we got busto.

Next we have MAGGIE. Ohh Maggie. a True turd in every sense of the word. I ran into Maggie in the parking lot of my office. She had a collar and and was running in and out of the street. I tried for forever to coax her to me. I finally had to call my wife from home. She came up and after about 2 hours we lasso’d her. She had a collar no tag. We walked around the neighborhoods with her. We put up signs everywhere. We posted online. Nothing . =/ . I swear it took her forever to warm up to us and let her personality show. Now that it shows we wish she would bottle it up. Man she is a handful. She eats EVERYTHING she is a total hoarder. Missing something? She either ate it or it is in her kennel. Socks, toilet paper, shirts, markers.. Eating a sandwich? Better keep it at chest level and keep your eye on it cause one false move and its out of your hand and in her mouth lol.

Then we have PRINCESS. Princess was actually from a friend (ex friend now) of my wife’s at work. They left her outside on 4th of  July. (she hates fireworks) She jumped the fence and ran away. My wife (not the family) searched for Princess for days with signs and posts online with no luck. Finally the ASPCA called the family to say they had the dog. The husband would not even allow the wife to go drive and get it. He had a new PURE BRED PIT he was prouder of. So we drove the wife all the way across town to get princess. When we got there we were told she had been hit by a car and her leg shattered in 10 places. The family wanted her put down. We told them we would raise the money and pay for treatment. They let that poor girl suffer for a week with that leg before even taking her to a vet.  They were not going to pay for the amputation but we offered. My wife even found a foster family for recovery. So they turned Princess over. Well my wife never to be out done felt just amputation would not suffice. She raised the money on Facebook for $3000 to get the leg fixed within 48 hours =) . Upon hearing the dog would be fixed the family that gave her up threw a fit and wanted their dog back. Now that it was not going be be crippled nor would they have to pay for it they wanted her. NOPE TOO BAD SOO SAD.  We tried Princess with a foster home but she unfortunately does not do well with aggressive alpha dogs =/ . So with us she stayed.  It has been tough as Bonzai being very ALPHA and nervous as it is her and Bonzai have gotten into it twice resulting in emergency Surgery for Bonzai. He is tough but being blind he just could not get the better of her. So they can never be together in the same room which has it’s challenges and I hate that it is unfair to both of them but I try to keep telling myself that in reality these two pit mixes with aggression issues would of been put down and never had a chance at life.

I mean seriously who could ever give up on this face?

Below is also her bionic leg with the external fixators on it . They were unable to put internal plates in as her skin was too thin. So 6 months of her running around with pins sticking out. Still cannot get over the irony of having to spend thousands to save her leg only to spend thousands the next year to remove Bonzai’s. The universe is a strange place.