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This is Lexy after Becky spent a month nursing her back to health.
Photo by Becky Rohrbaugh
Lexy, age 7
June 21, 2005
Lexy came to me through Juniper's breeder, Becky Rohrbaugh, who rescued her
from a previous owner. Lexy
was in pretty bad shape when Becky retrieved her.
Depite signing an agreement to keep Lexy as an inside dog, the previous owner had
left her outside to fend for herself most of the time. As an outside dog, she
developed a bad case of mange, lost part of
her tongue in a tussle with a groundhog, and contracted a mild case of Lyme disease.
Because the mange was left untreated, it
scarred her stomach and left permanent bare spots on her fur.
Treating the Lyme disease required Becky giving her shots twice a
week for a month.
I have to admit, never having adopted a rescue before, I was hesitant,
wondering what kind of behavioral problems might come with such a dog.
Add to that all of the articles out there warning of how difficult it can
be to introduce a new dog to a home with resident dogs, especially if the
new dog is the same age, and the reasons not to adopt were weighty indeed.
But older dogs are notoriously hard to find homes for, and when Becky
emailed a second plea to her bulldog-boxer family to place Lexy, I knew
she was destined for my home.
Lexy has proved wrong all my fears about rescue dogs. Though her
painfully skinny
body has been ravaged by neglect, her loving and affectionate personality
remains amazingly untouched. The other members of my pack--Max, Tatiana,
and Juniper--had absolutely no problems immediately accepting her into the fold.
It's as if she's always been part of the family.
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Sept 17, 2005 Update. Thanks to a twice daily regimen of Bil Jac dry
dog food mixed with a can of wet, Lexy's rib and hip bones no longer poke through
her skin. Yea!
"Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative."
-Mordecai Siegal, Contemporary Writer
July 3, 2005
Dogs Live Here
If you don't want to be greeted with paws and swinging tails,
don't come inside because dogs live here.
If you don't like the feel of a cold nose or wet tongue,
don't come inside because dogs live here.
If you don't want to step over many scattered toys,
don't come inside because dogs live here.
If you think that a home ought to smell of perfume,
don't come inside because dogs live here.
But if you don't mind all of this...
you will be instantly loved when you come inside
because dogs live here.
-Author Unknown
July 9, 2005
Lexy munches on a milkbone as Juniper supervises
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Lexy
My first rescue doggie
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing
look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that
basically dogs think humans are nuts."
-John Steinbeck
July 3, 2005
"If you pick up a
starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal
difference between a dog and a man."
-Mark Twain
July 3, 2005
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion"
-Unknown
July 9, 2005
"Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really."
-Agnes Sligh Turnbull
"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
-Mark Twain
"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them."
-Phil Pastoret
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