A Good News Story from Door County, Wisconsin (involves a garbage man..maybe union?)

[SoCalDem]

Door County garbage man rescues three abandoned puppies on side of road during blizzard


(click the link to see the adorable babies he saved)

http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20110316/APC0101/110316078/Door-County-garbage-man-rescues-three-abandoned-puppies-side-road-during-blizzard
8:16 AM, Mar. 16, 2011

Written by
Pamela Parks
Gannett Wisconsin Media


Fortunately for three puppies, Jason Grendziak was in the right place at the right time.

At the end of January in near-blizzard conditions, Grendziak was working his every-other-week garbage collection route in southern Door County for Veolia Environmental Services. Making a turnaround at about 6:30 a.m., a box on the side of the road and a flash of movement caught his attention. Grendziak decided to stop and take a look, and what he found took him by surprise: Three half-frozen puppies were huddled together in the box that was frozen to the ground.

"I could tell they were there for more than a few hours. They looked like shivering snowballs more than they looked like dogs," Grendziak said. "I couldn't leave them. I have a dog myself, and I don't think they would have lasted another day with the weather and birds of prey ... I had to bring them with me." After the pups warmed up on the floorboard of his truck, Grendziak found a box along his route to tuck them in and then shared cookies from his lunch box with the hungry guests.

After a few more stops, Grendziak called his boss, who came to take the dogs to the office. After checking with the Door County Humane Society and a few neighbors in the area where the dogs were found, a co-worker, John Nessinger, came forward to offer to find homes for the puppies.

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"I am just amazed that they survived. The low was 19 degrees that night. Probably being huddled together was the only thing that kept them alive," Chase said.

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[LiberalEsto]

1. Awwww, they are so cute!

There is something seriously wrong with people who dump puppies outside to freeze - or dispose of them in other ugly ways. These are the same idiots who can't be bothered spaying or neutering their pets in the first place.

[Scuba]

2. It was a 3-Dog Night. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Adorable. Wire-haired terrier?

[CTyankee]

4. What a great story. I love Door County. We are there every summer.

Hubby is from DC and we share ownership of a summer place in Egg Harbor with his sister. It's lovely in August.

[SoCalDem]

5. We lived in Northern Indiana for 7+ years & always planned to go

but being the lazy schlubs that we are, we never got there:).. We did make it to Kalamazoo once, Chicago a few times & to West Allis..but we never went to the Dells, or to Mackinac Island or to Door County..:(

We lived a mile from Lake Michigan ans only went to the beach 3 or 4 times:rofl: (we do NOT like cold water:)..)

[CTyankee]

6. DC has a very nice population. It's scenic and everyone is very environmentally conscious.

We have very special year round neighbors there and they look after our place.

I do prefer the ocean, altho the lakes in WI can be nice (if a bit buggy). Dtr has a place on Martha's Vineyard so we also get to visit there in July.

[Peregrine Took]

7. We go to Egg Harbor every summer,too, but we're running out of places

to stay. Its getting really expensive ($200-300.00 a night) but now we are boycotting it due to the obnoxious Snot Walker.

[CTyankee]

8. So I understand. I think the peninsula is a high quality place to vacation.

My husbands late parents were very middle class but also very well educated (his dad was supt. of schools in Kenosha when he retired). They were able to maintain their residence in Kenosha and build this house with no mortgage, they just paid cash. That has all changed.

I must say we are having a hard time maintaining this property even tho hubby and his sister own in outright. Taxes and maintenance are running high. A LOT of family members who are in WI use it year round and we go once a year for about a month. They do put some "sweat equity" into the house and that's a good thing, but perhaps they need to pitch in a bit more on the cash side...it's a problem for us since we are retired now and aren't making the money we were making when we were working...