Gray day today here at Pets Alive.  We’re working on something way cool (sorry…can’t tell you right now), and hopefully it will pan out.
I was going to call this brief blog The Power of Pets Alive. but it really isn’t about us —  it’s about you.  We have a certain number of spots set aside here for “lifers” — those dogs that will take a long time to be adopted.  For whatever reason, be it breed, or temperament or just the fact that they are black dogs (black dogs take the longest to get adopted).
When we take in a dog we have to be very conscious about whether the dog is a potential lifer.  We are delighted when we’re wrong.
First there’s Bernie — Bernie came from Los Angeles.   Our friends at Best Friends asked us to take Bernie, hoping he’d have a better chance here than there.  He was two and a half when he got to us.  He was stuck in the shelter out there for two years — since he was a six month old puppy — and he had no prospects of getting adopted. Bernie was a staff favorite. Kerry and I loved him, as did everyone who worked with him.  Sweet, gentle, wonderful.  He’s a Rottie/Golden mix, and what a great dog!
He is very, very dog aggressive.  Juan and Marcos worked with him and took the edge off (he is able to live with a dog in the next run now), but there’s still work to be done.  We were sure he would be around for quite a while.  We were wrong!
Now he has his forever home.  His adopter came to look at Panda, but fell in love with Bernie when he saw him.  Just like the rest of us.
Now Bernie’s doing great.
Then there’s Moet.  Moet, at 12 years old, was dumped in a kill shelter in Jersey City.  This shelter, like many, refuses to adopt out “pit bulls,” so the only chance Moet ever had was to be saved by a rescue.  Two Pets Alive volunteers saw Moet and fell in love with him.  They called and begged us to take him.  We thought long and hard about him, thinking that he would be a lifer.  We were wrong, delightfully.
So I’m sitting at my computer typing away, and I hear Kerry say “Oh….my….God.”  Now this could mean many things, but in this case it was absolutely amazing.  Look below:

Usually I place words next to the pictures on this blog. This is one of those rare times where the picture speaks the words in all of our hearts. Just look at Moet, safe and happy, living out the twilight of his life being loved and cared for rather than buried in a mass grave because his caretakers abdicated their responsibility. That’s you. That’s what you do.
We can’t stop looking at that picture. It’s amazing. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your support. Thank you for adopting dogs like Moet and Bernie.
Moet and Bernie and the rest of the thousands of animals you’ve saved thank you too.