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| Top Left - Stanley & Nile Brill Kuentz; Top Middle - Scout Carlisle; Top Right - Copper Taylor; Center Left - Yoshi Persinger; Center - Maxx Williams; Bottom Left - Missy Mangus; Bottom Center - Lulu Belle Persinger; Bottom Right - Zoe Shirk |
Missy Mangus
We had lost our 13-year-old Australian Sheppard - Rottweiler cross in February 2010
and by March I was feeling the need to find another canine companion. As lifelong dog
owners, our house seemed empty without a dog and I felt vulnerable not having
barking to alert me when someone was around. I tentatively started checking out the
local animal shelters and then Craig’s List. My husband is ill and I work full time, so I
ruled out raising a puppy this time around. Besides, I kept thinking, somewhere out
there is a dog that needs a good home, and we are a good home in need of a dog. I
hoped that fate would put us together.
The Craig’s List ad read “Hurry I Need a Good Home”. The ad detailed how the people
were getting ready to move and needed to find a new loving home for their 11 month
old Queensland Heeler/ Aussie mix female. She was the youngest of their 4 dogs and
they felt she would adapt more easily to a new home. With a little hesitancy, I picked up
the phone and called. Her owner was a nice young man, and he clearly loved his dogs.
I explained my situation and confessed that I wasn’t sure I was ready to start over with a
new dog so soon after losing Buster, but there was something about Missy’s photos
that compelled me to call him. Over the next couple of days I called him a couple more
times with questions. Finally, I decided I needed to meet her in person. They lived in
the North Valleys of Reno, so a friend and I drove over with a kennel in the back of my
van.
When I met Missy I liked her quiet demeanor and she seemed very sweet and a little
shy. She was obviously very attached to the young man, and I felt bad for him to have
to give her up. But I admired him for taking the responsibility of finding Missy a new
home. She seemed to like me, and when we opened up the back of the van, she
jumped right in the kennel without hesitation and stretched out and slept on the way
home. This was the kind of beginning I had hoped for, and I felt that fate had indeed
played a part in bringing us together.
It has been 5 ½ months since Missy came into our lives and she has proved to be
everything I was hoping to find in a dog. She is loving, beautiful, playful, loyal, smart
and housebroke. But being a young dog, she is also a powerful chewer that loves to
dig holes in the yard and chew and lay on the plants. But I am confident that with
patience and training, these destructive tendencies will fade as she matures.
There is one more thing that Missy brought to our household. She didn’t like being
alone all day, so a month after we got Missy, we rescued a Corgi Queensland cross to
be her companion. Skeeter is approximately 1 ½ years old and he and Missy get along
very well and play a lot. They provide our household with a never ending source of
entertainment and love, and I feel lucky to have them.
Sandy Mangus
We had lost our 13-year-old Australian Sheppard - Rottweiler cross in February 2010
and by March I was feeling the need to find another canine companion. As lifelong dog
owners, our house seemed empty without a dog and I felt vulnerable not having
barking to alert me when someone was around. I tentatively started checking out the
local animal shelters and then Craig’s List. My husband is ill and I work full time, so I
ruled out raising a puppy this time around. Besides, I kept thinking, somewhere out
there is a dog that needs a good home, and we are a good home in need of a dog. I
hoped that fate would put us together.
The Craig’s List ad read “Hurry I Need a Good Home”. The ad detailed how the people
were getting ready to move and needed to find a new loving home for their 11 month
old Queensland Heeler/ Aussie mix female. She was the youngest of their 4 dogs and
they felt she would adapt more easily to a new home. With a little hesitancy, I picked up
the phone and called. Her owner was a nice young man, and he clearly loved his dogs.
I explained my situation and confessed that I wasn’t sure I was ready to start over with a
new dog so soon after losing Buster, but there was something about Missy’s photos
that compelled me to call him. Over the next couple of days I called him a couple more
times with questions. Finally, I decided I needed to meet her in person. They lived in
the North Valleys of Reno, so a friend and I drove over with a kennel in the back of my
van.
When I met Missy I liked her quiet demeanor and she seemed very sweet and a little
shy. She was obviously very attached to the young man, and I felt bad for him to have
to give her up. But I admired him for taking the responsibility of finding Missy a new
home. She seemed to like me, and when we opened up the back of the van, she
jumped right in the kennel without hesitation and stretched out and slept on the way
home. This was the kind of beginning I had hoped for, and I felt that fate had indeed
played a part in bringing us together.
It has been 5 ½ months since Missy came into our lives and she has proved to be
everything I was hoping to find in a dog. She is loving, beautiful, playful, loyal, smart
and housebroke. But being a young dog, she is also a powerful chewer that loves to
dig holes in the yard and chew and lay on the plants. But I am confident that with
patience and training, these destructive tendencies will fade as she matures.
There is one more thing that Missy brought to our household. She didn’t like being
alone all day, so a month after we got Missy, we rescued a Corgi Queensland cross to
be her companion. Skeeter is approximately 1 ½ years old and he and Missy get along
very well and play a lot. They provide our household with a never ending source of
entertainment and love, and I feel lucky to have them.
Sandy Mangus