Our white dog is a mix from the Warner Robins animal shelter in Warner Robins Georgia. She is one of our pets that made the drive from Georgia to Washington with us when we moved here. She is our lazy house dog! Her name is Twister and she is the happiest snuggled under blankets asleep on the couch! Next up is our cat Mushroom, he also made the drive with us from Georgia to Washington, we got him when I worked at Corker animal hospital in Warner Robins Georgia, when a lady brought him in to have him put to sleep because he had ringworm. I explained to the lady that ringworm was treatable and it wasn't a reason to have an animal put down. She didn't care, she didn't want to deal with it. So we took him, but instead of putting him to sleep, I treated him and took him home! He has been a great cat, and an excellent traveler! He travels every where with us and is perfectly at home in the car!
Our next pet, was a stray black lab that was found in the cafeteria of Eastern Washington University. She was so skinny and starving to death, we took her in, fattened her up and gave her a home with us! My husband has trained her to be a hunting dog, and she is totally awesome at it! Her name is Bella! Last but not least was our pittbull named Squirrel. He also made the drive with us from Georgia to Washington. The vet that I used to work for bred pittbulls, and when Squirrel was born, he had fluid in his brain and had a funky looking head, the mother could sense that and kept pushing him away from her and would not let him nurse. The Dr. was going to just put him down, thinking that if the mother was pushing him away she knew something was wrong and that he probably wouldn't live anyways. I felt he needed a fighting chance and that maybe he could over come his obstacles. So I took him home and bottle fed him, and me and my husband took turns at night sleeping with him in our armpits (I know that sounds weird, but it was the only way that kept him warm to where he wasn't crying all night)! Well he made it and he was our baby! And once we had kids he was so good with them! He loved them just as we did (sometimes I think he thought they were his kids instead of ours)!!! Sadly he passed away two years ago, he was to the point to where we were carrying him outside to go to the bathroom because he couldn't walk down the stairs any more, so we had him put to sleep. We were only keeping him alive at that point for our own selfishness of missing him. He lived for 11 happy years, and that was 11 years more than anyone thought he would live. I miss him still everyday and still cry sometimes for him. Like I said he was more than just a dog, he was our first baby!
And our first baby Squirrel!
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