Mama and Miss Floppy have their new home!

Mama is heart worm free!! She is going to be OK. There is some damage to the heart from the heart worms, but with a little weight loss and spending hot days indoors, she should have a long healthy life.
She never really seemed to want to be adopted out, hiding every time she saw the camera come out or hanging her head down so no good photo could be taken.

Although there was interest in Miss Floppy, once they learned about her heart condition, I never heard back from a lot of them. She seems healthy and happy. You would never know by her playfulness that she has a hole in her heart.

So now the story ends with the Foster Mom becoming the forever home for these two with broken hearts. But we have all moved to a new home still within the same neighborhood and now they have their very own backyard. (Which they really seem to love)

 They also like to come inside and lay on the cool ceramic tile, although if I turn my back, Mama jumps up on the couch. Miss Floppy is intrigued by one of my cats "Stormie", she was also a rescue. She, I believe is cross eyed or blind in one eye and so has a hard time judging distance and height. Maybe that is why she doesn't seem afraid of Miss Floppy. But they appear to have formed a playful friendship.

Stormie & Floppy

They spend their days inside with me and their evening, nights and morning playing in the backyard with each other or the neighbor dog, Gracie. They really like Gracie because she will pass her toys through the fence for them to play with. Unfortunately, she rarely gets them back.

Gracie

In the end everyone that I know of has a good, loving forever home with the exception of the first one that was adopted out. I called him "Big Brother". He was a largest of them all and the first one to make friends with me and anyone else that would come visit. He would come into the garage and eat when the others would run when I got too close. He was the first one to allow me to pet him and the first one to take treats from my hand. When they first came to live in the pin, he would come up and lay his head in my lap for attention. He was so very sweet. But the woman that adopted him decided to take all of her dogs to the SPCA, even though I had told her to bring him back to me. I do hope and pray that he did find a good loving home.   



Sissy



Red





Goldilocks and Ashely





"Big Brother"









Papa passed away in his sleep, March of this year. He was much older than we thought and when the family took him in for heart worm treatments, the vet did not feel that he would survive them. He really was happy with his family and they loved him very much and were heart broken when he passed. They said he could never be replaced and was very special to them.



Papa

I wrote a book about their story. If anyone is interested in viewing it, I will have to email the link. It is at My Publisher.com.

I close with some videos of Mama and Miss Floppy playing in their new, forever home.

It's been a long, interesting, rewarding journey. This family that came from Hurricane Ike. How Mama and Papa took care of, protected and provided for 6 pups out in the woods for 5 months is miraculous. There were bobcats and coyotes, not to mention the stories around about them being wolves! People feared them but were in awe of them from a distance. There were some who wanted to shoot them. The local Humane Society said they could not be domesticated and would have to be put down. They have persevered!