Life After Losing A Dog..

On December 20, 2012 I lost a very precious dog and there has been no sign of her since. I never thought in a million years I would lose a dog, nor would I think I wouldn't get them back. I've spent thousands of dollars and countless hours searching for my beloved Kahlua and still no sign of her. An entire community has come together to help me find her and I know realize there are still great people in this world. I even hired search dogs to try and track her sent, that just shows what I will do to try and get back. 

After three months now, I refuse to give up on finding her, but I find it to be continuously hard to live life without her. She is the best dog and just wants to know she has your love. As you may have read in my previous blog, Kahlua was an abandoned dog, left to die, by her past owners and would have either died of starvation or taken to a shelter where she would have been put down. Being a 6 year old pit bull at the time and not very fond of men or other dogs, there's no way she would have past a behavioral test. I even struggled with her for about the first 6 months, but never viscous towards me and she listened very well. 

Now, I feel like I've lost a piece of heart and member of my family and I have thought of, what happens if i never see her again? Could I really live the rest of my life without her and never knowing what happened to her? I think the hardest part for me is that someone else caused this to happen by being irresponsible and I haven't been able to get past that. In their mind, it's not a huge deal but to me it's like losing a child. Do you ever really get over this? I know my other dog, Castro, still missing snuggle time!

I would like to hear from you and know if you've ever lost an animal and how you coped. 

Blu Blu

Blu is our 5 month old Australian Shepard, who is beautiful, wonderful puppy! Blu came into our family one night, when my fiancé just had enough of Gizmo (this was before the doggy daycare days) and said, at 6:30 pm, let's go get another puppy! And me being the dog lover I am, was all on board! But we only had 30 mins to get to the shelter, so we are racing to get there. We arrived at 6:48pm, just enough time to look around and find our new puppy! Well, that wasn't the case at all. The adoptions stop adopting at 7 pm, and mind you, it was
6:48pm when we walked in, and they had the entire place shut down and the workers were walking out. So I let them know we were there to adopt a dog and we are within the working hours. Well they informed me and this other couple, who also came to adopt a dog, that they stop adopting at 6:40 pm. I was fuming! So, I walked into the bigger building and said I just went to adopt a dog and they turned us away! The people in there were also fuming. So they immediately called their supervisor and said that is not the policy and the people who left early and refused to adopt us a dog would be
getting in trouble for that, but that did not solve our problem. So as we left, my fiancé said let's just go over to PetLand and see what they have. Apparently,  we weren't going home without a puppy. So, we went in there to take a peek, I mean there was no way we were affording a dog from there and I really wanted to adopt one, but it turns out we fell in love. I've always wanted an Australian Shepard and there was a 3 month old puppy that was the cutest, sweetest thing I've ever seen, but also feisty, which is exactly what we needed for our Gizmo. So, we played with her for a minute and she was perfect, just as insane as Gizmo and almost his exact size (he's a pretty small dog). So we bargained and got a great deal on her that we could actually afford and brought home the little bundle of joy! The second I saw her, I just knew her name needed to be Blu! And it turns out that after I chose her name, they told me that her dad's name and grandma's name were both show dogs named Blu. I then knew it was meant to be.

She's a perfect playmate for Gizmo, yet also a sweetheart that does not terrorize you.
If only she could just the potty training down and she'd be the perfect puppy! Oh and she
loves to snuggle with just about anything!

Gizmo The Crazy!

Gizmo is an 8 month old Beabull (Beagle/Bulldog) who came into our lives about 6 months ago when we were out buying creamer at Vons. We were just on a market run when there was a Petland right next door that we had visited a month prior, just to see what the deal was. We have always adopted our dogs and I never believed in buying a dog, but I figure ever dog needs a home, regardless of how they come to be. So we went into Petland that day and saw this same we had seen the prior month, marked down from $1500 dollars to $200 dollars and I asked them why he was on sale. They told me that he was way to high tempered and that a lot of families want a more calm dog. I could see how hyper he was because he was running in circles in his cage and I felt so bad for him. I don't know where they come from but the lady said he would be shipped back because he had been there too long and I was heart broken. I turned to my fiancé and said  let's take him home. So we played with him for a minute and he was pure evil, biting us every chance he got and going insane and I could not leave him there. He was clearly going crazy being in a cage all day. So we signed the paperwork and took him home and he's been terrorizing us ever since. I understood why no one wanted him but I couldn't stand the fact of him being put to sleep or going to the wrong family because at $200, anyone could afford him at this point. Gizmo now enjoys his days at doggy daycare while we work and he's so tuckered out by the time he comes that he doesn't have the energy to torment us. But we love him just the same and he is an amazingly smart dog who can open doors and figure pretty much anything out.

The Story of Kahlua

Kahlua is my 13 year old brindle pit bull mix, who I fell in love with from the start. Her story was an interesting one. I had an old roommate who just moved into a new house. Next to him was a group of 5 guys who rented a home and had two dogs, who fought all the time in the backyard. They were definitely neglected and seemed vicious. One day, the five men abandoned their rental home and left behind these two dogs. After they left, my friend would just hear constant barking and fighting coming from the yard. After more than two weeks of this chaos, he decided to investigate and realized the owners had left the dogs there. Being the dog person that he is, he jumped over there and brought the dogs over to his house and gave them food and water. However, the dogs did not like each other and the one male dog would just attack Kahlua every second. So, immediately got a phone call from him asking if I would take Kahlua. At the time, I was living with a roommate and he did not want any other dogs, so I asked if I could just help out and take her in until I found her a new home. Mind you, Kahlua was a 6 year old pitbull at the time and came from a neglectful situation, so I was not too sure how she would get along with Castro or people, so I was taking a huge risk, but I didn't want to see her go to a kill shelter. Well, I fell in love with her almost immediately. So, my roommate went out of town and told me I had two weeks to find her a home. That didn't happen and when he returned she was still there and he was not happy. But he saw what an amazing dog she was and decided to let me keep her, which made me so happy. I trained her to be an indoor dog and trust people again. Until recently she lived the life of luxury, but due to an irresponsible sibling of mine, she got out and has been missing for two month. I miss her like crazy and hope one day she will return home safely and continue living her great life.

If anyone wants to share her story with others and help bring her home, I've created her a FaceBook page, which can be liked and shared.

http://www.facebook.com/BringKahluaHome