When Bad Things Happen To Good Dogs

Every foster dog has it's own story. Most times you never get to hear it though. If only they could talk. And yet, if they could how many tears would we weep at their stories?

Bad things can and do happen to good dogs. Many people think only bad dogs end up in rescue. Dogs with issues, problems. Dogs who are untrainable, aggressive, unruly. More often it was the owner who had problems, was untrainable, unruly, had issues. And the dogs get disposed of like yesterdays trash and the "problem" just disappears.

I have to wonder, with finding out that Hank's swollen leg issue is actually a cancerous tumor, if his owners knew and chose just to let him go. Maybe they knew and couldn't afford to care for him. Lord knows these financial times are tight for everyone and any extra bill might be one too many. Perhaps they knew, or even just suspected, and felt he was just livestock. Perhaps he was just disposable. Bad leg, maybe not good for hunting, not worth the effort.

And so this love of a dog finds his way into rescue. Proof also that good things happen to good dogs. Now he has a network of people pulling for him, praying for him, loving him. Most will only know him through me, through his profile on our website, through my blogs. But they believe in him, just like I do.

He is a good dog. He knows only the joy of being loved and cared for. He has landed in a very good place. What path he travels from here is undetermined. Course of treatment uncertain. Adopt ability and prognosis currently unknown. Life status - loved. By a very very large family known as people who support animal rescue. And especially loved by one foster Mom and Dad who will see him home - where ever that may be.