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
Lisa, I give you a lot of credit taking in a dog that came from a neglectful situation, but most of the time a dog just knows when she is loved. I also had a neighbor that did the same thing your friend did by jumping over a fence to feed dogs that were left in a backyard for a week. It ended up that we called animal control because the people had moved from the house. How can people be so ignorant as to just leave the dogs. I hope that you can find Kahlua...just keeping calling the shelters on a daily basis and hopefully she'll turn up.
ReplyDeleteThank you...it was a first for me I love all dogs and had to give her a shot. We look for her everyday and hope that she returns home safely. I love hearing there are people out there who will rescue dogs. I'm finding out there are so many good people in this world that I didn't know existed until we lost our dog.
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