Re: [PyrNet-L] Rainbow is here!

[Charlotte & Jack Perry <pyreau@erols.com>]

Mitzi,
What a wonderful, heartwarming story about Rainbow!! It made my day. I'm
so glad you have her and that there are people like Marcie and Lisa and
Merry Lou and you who helped to make the happy ending come true! 
Charlotte

itzi wrote:
> 
>  (Am sending this out to 2 lists-sorry if you get a duplicate)
>     My Rescue Pyr is here! Marcie with Pyr Rescue in the far north US
> drove her 4 hrs to meet Lisa with Magic Moment kennels who had also
> driven several hours. Lisa gave her a ride back to her own house in
> Cleveland and kept her overnight (and also did a wonderful job on her
> coat, I might add!). Lisa took her to a park in Cleveland, OH where
> Mery Merry Lou Crist met her and picked the dog up and drove her ALL the
> way from Cleveland, OH to southern Kentucky. Merry Lou kept her
> overnight and turned around *the *next *day and made a12 hr round
> trip drive to Little Rock, AR where I met her at 10:30 PM last night
> to pick the Pyr up and drive the 6 hrs back to Oklahoma City.
>    However-she is not "the rescue Pyr" any longer, she is MY DOG and
> her name is now "Rainbow". Lisa saw a rainbow the night she had her
> while she was outside slicing away mats on her coat, so Lisa has said
> all along that this "Pyr Trip" was blessed by the rainbow. What
> better name than Rainbow??
>    This dog is absolutely AWESOME!! That's the only word I can use to
> describe her! She's went through so much, been taken from the only
> home she'd ever known, been spayed, stayed overnight at 4 completely
> strange places altogether, traveled 1,000 miles in 2
> days...........and she laid her head in my lap all the way home and
> gazed up at me like I was God. The look in her eyes made me want to
> cry. She trusts me 100% to take care of her, even though others in
> her life have let her down.
>     We went through the "official" introductions with Rainbow & my
> other 8 dogs this morning. All my worries about introducing an adult
> into my household of dogs were for nothing. My Golden made a play bow
> and all of a sudden I had 8 dogs (the Newfie pup was inside <g>)
> bouncing and flopping all over the yard having themselves the time of
> their lives playing! Rainbow LOVES to play! She dearly loves my 2 yr
> old son and didn't give the cats a second glance. I'm going to give
> her plenty of time alone in the next few days until she gets her
> bearings, but judging from all the signs these 9 are going to do
> absolutely fine. Rainbow is quite dog-friendly just like my other
> Pyrs, very mellow and slow moving-she acts so much like my own Pyrs
> that I'd swear I'd raised her.
>    It just FLOORS me that someone didn't want this dog!! This is THE
> ultimate perfect dog......and SOMEone didn't want her!!! My husband
> and I were so in love with her by the time we got home he said they'd
> have to pry his cold dead fingers off of her collar before they'd
> ever get her away from him <BG>.
>     God, I love this dog.
> Mitzi Potter   OKC  OK
> Pyrs@prodigy.net
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