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Timing is everything<\/p>\n

A friend called to see if I could help her neighbor with two stray dogs.\u00a0 Not the kind of thing I normally do, but she was very persuasive.\u00a0 Two large dogs were hanging out in her Kessler neighborhood.\u00a0 Neither of them was spay or neutered and they seemed to be on an endless date.\u00a0 They were agitating the neighbor\u2019s dogs and generally upsetting the normal balance of things. We could lure the German shepherd but not her \u201cboyfriend\u201d. With some persuasion, we loaded her into the car and took her to the vet leaving the \u201cboyfriend\u201d behind.<\/p>\n

As she was unloading out of my car at the vet clinic, Dr. Perkins stopped in his tracks on his way to lunch and started asking me about her. He had a client in mind the minute he saw her. We went in the clinic and started her initial exam. While she was getting checked out, he was on the phone with one of his long time clients. His client had recently put to sleep their long time love and companion who was also a German shepherd. \u00a0His client agreed to come see her that afternoon and before I could even get back to Oak Cliff, she was adopted. She\u00a0needed\u00a0a few more days at the clinic for her spay,\u00a0\u00a0heartworm treatment, and then she was on\u00a0to her new forever home.<\/p>\n

Sam holds our world\u2019s record for being rescued, vetted and adopted. Start to finish (commitment to the dog) it was less than 4 hours! OK \u2013 her spay was the next day\u00a0 and we did continue to looked for her owners and any signs posted in the neighborhood, but we could not find notice of anyone looking for her and so her adoption was finalized.<\/p>\n

When we rescued Sam and placed her in her new home, she was in pretty rough shape. She was underweight, heartworm positive, skittish, and had been on the streets for an undetermined amount of time.\u00a0 She is now a picture of health, love, trust, and happiness.<\/p>\n

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If you know me at all, you know I love to play 6 degrees of separation with all the Oak Cliff strays. They do all start to look related after a while…and I always think it’s because they are cousins. The probablity is high. One day when I am rich I am going to run DNA tests on all of them.<\/p>\n

Check out this picture of Chankla and tell me\u00a0Chankla and\u00a0Sam\u00a0don’t know Kevin Bacon!<\/p>\n

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What happened to Boyfriend?\u00a0 Boyfriend was a little more feral and took considerable more time and effort.\u00a0 You can read about Boyfriend on his page which will be coming soon<\/p>\n

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Both Sam and Boyfriend are poster children for spaying, neutering<\/a>, giving year round heartworm<\/a> preventative, and chipping your pets! \u00a0You bet they both have\u00a0have all that\u00a0now!<\/p>\n

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Timing is everything A friend called to see if I could help her neighbor with two stray dogs.\u00a0 Not the kind of thing I normally do, but she was very persuasive.\u00a0 Two large dogs were hanging out in her Kessler neighborhood.\u00a0 Neither of them was spay or neutered and they seemed to be on an endless date.\u00a0 They were agitating the neighbor\u2019s dogs and generally upsetting the normal balance of things. We could lure the German shepherd but not her \u201cboyfriend\u201d. With some persuasion, we loaded her into the car and took her to the vet leaving the \u201cboyfriend\u201d behind. As she was unloading out of my car at the vet clinic, Dr. Perkins stopped in his tracks on his way to lunch and started asking me about her. He had a client in mind the minute he saw her. We went in the clinic and started her initial exam. While she was getting checked out, he was on the phone with one of his long time clients. His client had recently put to sleep their long time love and companion who was also a German shepherd. \u00a0His client agreed to come see her that afternoon and before I could even get back to Oak Cliff, she was adopted. She\u00a0needed\u00a0a few more days at the clinic for her spay,\u00a0\u00a0heartworm treatment, and then she was on\u00a0to her new forever home. Sam holds our world\u2019s record for being rescued, vetted and adopted. Start to finish (commitment to the dog) it was less than 4 hours! OK \u2013 her spay was the next day\u00a0 and we did continue to looked for her owners and any signs posted in the neighborhood, but we could not find notice of anyone looking for her and so her adoption was finalized. When we rescued Sam and placed her in her new home, she was in pretty rough shape. She was underweight, heartworm positive, skittish, and had been on the streets for an undetermined amount of time.\u00a0 She is now a picture of health, love, trust, and happiness.   If you know me at all, you know I love to play 6 degrees of separation with all the Oak Cliff strays. They do all start to look related after a while…and I always think it’s because they are cousins. The probablity is high. One day when I am rich I am going to run DNA tests on all of them. Check out this picture of Chankla and tell me\u00a0Chankla and\u00a0Sam\u00a0don’t know Kevin Bacon! What happened to Boyfriend?\u00a0 Boyfriend was a little more feral and took considerable more time and effort.\u00a0 You can read about Boyfriend on his page which will be coming soon Both Sam and Boyfriend are poster children for spaying, neutering, giving year round heartworm preventative, and chipping your pets! \u00a0You bet they both have\u00a0have all that\u00a0now!    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/2091"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}