callie’S HAPPY ENDING
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Callie: AAS helps another CAC pound dog...
AAS received this email from Chilliwack Animal Control...
Callie really stole my heart on Christmas day when I was lucky enough to spend some time with all the dogs due to the shelter being closed and not having to do my regular stuff. She is one of those dogs that are beaming with personality….SO much determination and positive energy. I spent a good hour with her playing ball in the parking lot and the joy within her was immense. She would go out and get that ball so fast, bring it back to my feet, drop it, and sit shaking with excitement that I was going to do it again.
Callie is so dedicated to what she is doing. She gives 110% to everything she does and is so overjoyed to be doing it with you. In her kennel she entertains herself by taking her toys and “hiding” them. Once they are “hidden” she looks around the kennel and then a sparkle comes in her eyes and a smile on her face and she proceeds to “find” them. She drops her ball in her water bucket, just so she can get it back out. She messes her bed so she can make it. She wants SO bad to have something to do with her time and is overjoyed when she actually has someone to do it with. It’s as if she says to herself “WOW, I had no idea humans liked to do this stuff, too!”
Callie has been finding something to do to entertain herself in her tiny little kennel for 2 months now. I’m sure she thinks about the fun we had on Christmas day. I’m sure that thoughts of running and playing and dreams of a place where she has her own home with her own people that love to do the same things as her have kept her going this long.
Well, those dreams have faded for Callie, and now, she has given up. She is bored of finding toys that weren’t lost. Sick of all the barking dogs around her. Sick of waiting for her dream to come true.
As with all the dogs that are in this shelter too long, she is becoming reactive with some of the others. But worst of all, Callie stopped eating 2 days ago, and is no longer looking for the lost toy.
Please, if there is anything anyone can do to help her out, let me know. I can’t let Callie continue this way.
AAS responded immediately with an offer to take Callie, just as we had with Markus and Skeeter, two other dogs who hadn't fared well in pound conditions. We placed Callie with our rehabilitation/trainer where she is having a wonderful time while getting over her behaviour problems, one of which is fear of men. She has been given the responsibilty of carrying home groceries when she is taken to the store, at the same time meeting other dogs and people. Callie will cost AAS at least $2500 but once she is ready, the best home will be chosen for her, a home that can afford to look after her for the rest of her life and will take her everywhere with them, and take her swimming and keep up her training and all the other things that AAS requires for our dogs.
Callie is mad about balls. Here she is waiting to catch one. She likes jobs like helping to carry the groceries. And here she is up the mountain.
Callie has taken to the water just as we knew she would. Isn't she darling!
Judith's Happy Ending After 10 Years on a Chain
