Valentine’s Day Hero Saves Dog With Two Hours Left On the Shelter’s Death Clock

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/valentines-day-hero-saves-dog-with-two-hours-left-on-the-shelters-death-clock.html





by Laura Simpson February 18, 2014 7:00 pm

Valentine’s Day morning began the same as any other, with the Harmony Fund receiving a small wave of emails from people in need of help for animals in crisis. Somewhere in the middle of that pile was a message from animal advocate Mallory Kroll of Massachusetts, who was pleading for help to save a small dog who was about to be euthanized some 2,000 miles away in Texas. I looked at the clock and there were just eight hours until this young, healthy dog would be put to sleep simply because her family never came to claim her at the pound and there were no potential adopters. Wiggles would soon be having breakfast in a small stainless steel bowl and it would be the last meal she ever tasted if someone wouldn’t bail her out, and quickly.

Despite the slim odds, I got to work networking as did hundreds of other wonderful Facebook fans who wanted to believe that on Valentine’s Day of all days, a miracle was possible. After a series of false starts and a flurry of pleas and prayers, one simple message from a dog lover named Karen Davenport came across the screen.



Wiggles takes his first walk with the rest of Karen's pack

“I am on my way to get her right now from Dallas.”

Full stop. We all held our breath.

Sixty-four minutes later she wrote, “Almost there.”

FULL story at link.

[shenmue]

1. Yaaaaaaay!

Adoption rules!!

[hamsterjill]

2. Texas needs all of the help it can get!

Great story!!

Texas is horrible as far as animal overpopulation and dogs and cats euthanized in shelters.

I'm in San Antonio, and we've made some strides forward since 2005 when people finally started to talk about reducing the 50,000 plus animals that were euthanized here that year.

But we still have a LONG way to go. I count each adoption as a miracle!

[roguevalley]

3. there is goodness everywhere. we just have to look for it and celebrate.