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We had a new addition to our family the middle of November. A beautiful little white girl with blue brindle patches. She was 2, would be 3 on Christmas day. We named her Lola and she immediately claimed our hearts. There was one thing strange about her though, we would let her out in the yard in the morning and she simply would not come back into the house on her own. One day she was out there almost 8 hours and the temperature didn't get above 27º. I had a broken ankle and then I also had a toe amputated and Darrell was scheduled to have back surgery. We couldn't find an answer to our problem because neither of us would be physically able to go out and bring her back in so we made the gut-wrenching decision to take her back for re-adoption. We took her and the director said she would take her back but that she absolutely would not put her up for adoption. She would hold her until we could come back for her. The last words we heard from her were, "don't worry, she'll be here for you." This made us feel better until I got this e-mail from her on February 7th:

hey della, you will be happy I hope to know that one of my good friends from blacksburg VA came today to adopt cuzzin nanabelle, they fell in love with carrie too, and she loved them, there two ladies that have had my greys for about 10 yrs. she will have a really good home,one is a dr and the other one is home all the time......I know it makes you sad,,,,,,but be happy that she got a really good home......

My heart is broken. I still haven't responded to her. I am just so sad because she fit right in with our pack and we fell so in love with her.

Sorry, but I just had to share with somebody who would understand. Non-Greyhound people just don't get it.
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Della
Abby, Deogee, Lola, Beau, & Rufus

{{{Della and Darrell}}}

Lana does the same thing, in fact today she got out with no coat on and got past the barricade. She was out for only 2 hours in the 14 degree weather. We are doing the leash thing even though she loves to get out and run {we have a huge yard. But she got out when I was letting Brooke in. Brooke is small and can queeze into and out of things, and she comes back after a bit.
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Nancy with Markie, Lana and Brooke, the pups
Zeta and Preston, the kitties

Gone from my life but not my heart: Zach, Gizzy, Maggie, BoBo, Cleo and Jakob

Della,
I can't even imagine having that happen. One would think that courtesy alone would call for you to get a phone call seeing if you had objections to having your little girl adopted out to someone else. My doG, the heartbreak of expecting to have your baby come home to you so that you could work on recall and then to have her taken from you in such a cruel way. And this woman works with Greyhound rescue on a regular basis? Does she understand the concept of loving your hounds and feeling about them as if they were your children? Evidently she is a very cruel person. I can imagine Butch on his way to Virginia to get *his* dog back.
Wish that I were there so that I could give you a big hug.
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Gwen & the Zu Kru
Aimee Kylie Jazz & Dakota
Taz(all white Kitty)
Sadie, Luke, Kianna & Jessie at the Bridge
Fill your life with love ~ adopt a greyhound