Shelter Dog – Scout
Eleven-month-old Scout is a medium-sized boy who just wants to have fun. That shows in the cute, white and bronze, neutered, housebroken, curled-tail-wagging pup’s expressive ears. When Scout sees someone who might play or go for a walk, those ears go up in excited anticipation, a lot like airplane flaps.
And Scout considers every human, children and adults, and other dogs, as potential playmates, someone to entertain. However, cats aren’t at all amused by Scout. The pup tends to chase them. Scout needs to be in a cat-free home.
Yet, any cat-free home would be happier with Scout living there. He’s a charming, well-behaved boy with only one thing wrong in his life. Despite learning every important doggy lesson and offering unconditional love, Scout’s homeless.
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Homeless pets must wonder what they did wrong, how they could have misunderstood the rules. The fact is, they didn’t fail or misunderstand. Their people unfairly ignored the rules.
Sugar’s people must have had to push hard and harshly to get her away from their car. Sugar’s only goal is to be close to someone, to touch a friend and be petted. She must have been held and loved as a kitten, because Sugar prefers people over her own kind. Sugar wouldn’t have voluntarily left her humans.
The famous cat, Garfield, insisted he wasn’t fat. He was fluffy. Kalvin, a handsome, but no-longer-loved fellow could say the same thing. But in Kalvin’s case it’s true. He’s very small, weighing only seven pounds, under lots of gorgeous fluff, or, at least, fluff that would be gorgeous, if the neutered fellow had an easier life.
Droger hopes that someone remembers what it feels like to be the last one chosen for the ball team. The alert, hopeful, eight-week-old tabby is the tiny leftover. Droger doesn’t know where his littermates went. He only knows that other kittens relegated to the shelter came with sisters or brothers. They aren’t as alone as he is.
When Shaggy realized that he and his sister were trapped in a box, he probably didn’t worry. Shaggy trusted his calico sister, Sienna, to lead him out of trouble. The gold and white little boy isn’t quite as brave as his sister. Of course, calicos are known for their “cattitude”. Golden cats are known for their mellowness and cuddling.
Things happen to animals that make kinder people wonder what the perpetrators were thinking? Or whether they have a heart? The people who delivered Sienna, an eight-week-old kitten with a vibrant color and personality, to the shelter said that someone had dropped Sienna and her brother, Shaggy, on a driveway, taped in a box.
Ivan, with his satellite-dish ears and habit of leaning against the leg of someone he trusts, may not show his Rin Tin Tin tendencies right now. But very few shelter pups do. Eleven-month-old Ivan would be foolish not to feel insecure. The German Shepherd-mix pup is intelligent and observant. Ivan knows that he’s part of a pack of rejects.
When the man began shooting, eight-week-old Spirit probably trembled and tried to hide against the cold, bare ground.
More than anything else, Wallace is puzzled. During his eight-week-long life, Wallace learned that certain actions yielded certain reactions from people. When Wallace toddled toward people, they scooped him up and cuddled him. Now, when Wallace moves toward someone, his nose hits the wire walls on his cage. And most people hurry right past his pleading, expectant, tiny face.
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.
