Shelter Pup – Beef Cake
The seven-month-old, 27-pound, Australian Shepherd/Border Collie puppy is too young, too trusting and too little to be out straying on his own. But eye-catching, tri-colored Beef Cake was. Then, Beef Cake must have bounced up to strangers. After all, that’s what he does in the shelter. The little guy loves humans and other dogs. Beef Cake just wants a friend.
Someone noticed that Beef Cake needed help, but they couldn’t give him the home he needs and deserves. He’s the ideal lap dog, just big enough to warm someone through the winter, both body and heart.
Beef Cake is also the perfect age to join a family forever. He’d learn the house rules quickly, and he’d add joy and inspiring energy to a dreary winter.
Their owner went to a care facility. Someone was to care for the man’s beloved Australian Shepherds, Jack and Mack. That person said that, even though the dogs were left in an empty home, someone had fed them. That was hard to believe when the shelter staff saw the emaciated Australian Shepherds.
Kai is a beautiful, brilliant boy, and the shelter staff is amazed that no one seems to notice that. This well-behaved fellow, with alert, perceptive eyes, one glacier blue, one soulful brown, has been in the shelter longer than any other animal. Yet, puzzlingly, no visitor has even asked to meet the friendly Australian Shepherd – black Labrador one on one.
At times, a person wants to feel protected. Other times that same person wants her friends and family to feel welcomed and adored. Chico is one of those rare dogs who can meet both needs. The regal, 67-pound, Shepherd-Husky mix is big enough to be intimidating. Yet, this handsome boy is sweet and loving.
There’s magic in having a secret friend. Turtle, a four-month-old, spayed, multi-colored, tabico kitten, prefers to be hidden from everyone. In the Shelter’s Friendly Feline Room, Turtle stays in her hidey hole, watching the other cats, the visitors and the activities from a safe distance.
The first thing that Orangutan learned about the world was to hide. Someone abandoned her mama and the kitten. That someone must have known how little chance the helpless family had of surviving. Someone didn’t care. But Mama cared. She tried to help Orangutan survive. Mama’s brutal experiences had taught her that staying unnoticed was essential for staying alive.
Cranberry wants someone to notice that she’s the ideal holiday cat. She already seems covered in snow. Her muzzle is especially cute. Cranberry appears to have fallen face first in a snow drift. And she has an expression of wide-eyed wonder whenever she sees something nice. That wonder would become dazzlement when Cranberry glimpsed the Christmas tree.
It’s sad that the shelter, where she lives in a cage with a concrete floor, is the happiest place that Raja has known. However, a cliché says, it’s all relative. The shelter is dry and warm. Raja feels safe and has food. Best of all, the people who come to see her each day seem to like her.
Some pups apologize for existing. Usually those are pups who deserve apologies from the human species for what they’ve endured. Buckwheat, a wheat-colored, seven-month-old, sweet, southern gentleman, is like that. Evidence indicates that the Mountain Cur mix has lived his entire life in a cage, a cage that was disgusting because Buckwheat was never taken out.
Some breeds always look sad. So, with Gomez, a Newfoundland mix, it’s hard to know whether his sad expression comes from understanding his unfair situation. After all, Gomez, like so many bigger dogs, is a sweet, perpetually grateful gentleman. He sees the world as the half-full glass. He doesn’t resent being dumped. He’s grateful someone saved him.
When a law enforcement officer asks for help from the shelter staff, it can be very serious. Situations don’t get much more serious than Marley’s was. Read Marley’s story and learn more about how you can help this sweet dog’s recovery efforts.
Dramatic cases of animal injury and recovery are common at the Grant County Friends of the Animal Shelter and Castle is no exception. We encourage you to read Castle’s story and learn more about how you can help this resilient cat’s recovery efforts.
