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    Lost Souls: FOUND! Inspiring Stories About Dogs, Vol. II
    Lost Souls: FOUND! Inspiring Stories About Dogs, Vol. II
    Lost Souls: FOUND! Inspiring Stories About Dogs, Vol. II
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    Lost Souls: FOUND! Inspiring Stories About Dogs, Vol. II

    By Kyla Duffy

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    Lost Souls: FOUND! Inspiring Stories about Dogs Vol. II continues this series heartwarming tradition of sharing stories about dogs who have been rescued, fostered, and adopted. This book especially focuses on dogs who were deemed "unadoptable" - usually for reasons that were surmountable with the appropriate love, care, and patience. These true stories address the cruelty of animal neglect and abuse and the joy adopted dogs bring to their new homes. This book is a must-read for dog lovers and people who are considering adopting dogs. A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF PROCEEDS FROM EVERY SALE IS DONATED BACK TO DOG RESCUE GROUPS.

    Excerpt: "Angel, a stray who had been abused before I adopted her, has really lived up to her name. I live alone and have multiple sclerosis (MS); Angel is perfect for me because we take care of each other. However, it turns out I m not the only one she s watching out for. One night during the wee hours, Angel became restless and woke me up. I rarely go out late at night, but she seemed so anxious that I figured I should take her out. Since she stays by me either on or off the leash, I unhooked her leash so she could do what she needed to do, but instead of going back to the grass, Angel ran into the parking lot and went between two vehicles. When I caught up with Angel, I found her sitting next to one of our tenants, who was lying on the ground in a fetal position with his walker nearby..." -Jan Nash

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKyla Duffy
    Release dateApr 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301539000
    Lost Souls: FOUND! Inspiring Stories About Dogs, Vol. II
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    Kyla Duffy

    Happy Tails Books is driven by a passion to help needy animals by raising awareness about adoption and the proper care of domestic dogs and cats. We are grateful to our volunteer photographers and editors who help us make these books come to life. Happy Tails Books donates up to 25% of gross profits back to rescue organizations. Any rescue enrolled in our rescue partner program is eligible for a donation from each sale made through this website. You can indicate your favorite rescue on the check-out form when you make a purchase. Since 2009, Happy Tails Books has published more than 1,000 stories from people who have fostered and/or adopted dogs and cats! Co-editors Kyla Duffy and Lowrey Mumford are dog lovers who have been publishing the Lost Souls: FOUND! series since 2009. Lowrey knows journalism, and Kyla has experience in entrepreneurship; this has created the perfect synergy for the Happy Tails Books project. Lowrey and Kyla have two adopted dogs each, and they continue to support the rescues in their communities.

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      Lost Souls - Kyla Duffy

      Introduction: Really Adoptable

      The Lost Souls: FOUND! series set out several years ago to highlight the profound effect adopted pets have had on people’s lives. Since then we’ve published countless stories from people who have adopted loving pets of all shapes and sizes. Some were adopted as perfect puppies and then turned out to, well, let’s just say need extensive training, while others were on death row because they had been deemed unadoptable – ill, injured, insecure, disfigured, black (yes, black), or elderly – and turned out to change their human’s lives in ways people never could have imagined.

      In some cases, dogs face euthanization simply because they don’t meet our society’s cute standard. Imagine if we transposed that idea onto our human population. Many people would be in some serious trouble!

      The point is that no dog should ever have to face euthanasia for any reason other than incurable pain and/or suffering resulting from physical or mental illness. So how do we show people that these unadoptable dogs truly have value, are beautiful, and can make wonderful pets?

      One story submitted for this book brought up the question, What is beauty? and I chose it for this book’s theme because I think the author, Patty Hascall, reminds us of an important lesson. Here’s what she has to say:

      We all think our own dog is the most beautiful, but I know mine is. It’s all in the definition of the word beautiful.

      The most thoughtful description of beautiful that I’ve read was from Margery Williams in The Velveteen Rabbit. The Rabbit asked the Skin Horse, What is REAL? Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick out handle?

      The old Skin Horse answered with the following:

      REAL isn’t how you are made; it’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become REAL. It doesn’t happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time. Generally, by the time you are REAL, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are REAL you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.

      Real and beautiful are one and the same.

      My Boston Terrier Maggie is really beautiful. She becomes more so each day that passes, with each new gray hair on her lovely face, with the slight sag in her spine and the limp in her leg. It’s the dignity with which she quietly waits on the edge of the bed for me to lift her down each morning because first thing in the morning, well, it’s a long way down. It’s the patience she shows the younger dog in the household and her tolerance of the foster dogs. It’s the joy she finds in sleeping on my pillow, breakfast sausage, baby cones at the Dairy Freeze, rides in the car, and her toys. It’s the delighted Maggie spin when she gets to go anywhere, as long as it’s somewhere. It’s the thoughtful lick across my cheek for no apparent reason. It’s the peace that seeps into my soul when I lay my hand on her while she’s in that deep, senior sleep where she is young again in her mind. It’s the void she filled in my heart four years ago when I lost two dogs in as many months. It’s my amazement that I almost didn’t meet an eight-year-old dog named Maggie four years ago because I couldn’t see past my own grief.

      Maggie is the most beautiful dog in the world; she is mine, and I am hers. There is nothing that will dull her continual metamorphous into being more beautiful. She will always burst with her beauty. I hope that your dog is beautiful, too, in all the ways that matter.

      Puppy. Senior. Black dog. Tripod. Every dog is real. Each one has life and love to give to the right person who will take the time to know and love him or her. And he or she will give you that love tenfold in return. And those who are fortunate enough to be loved by a down-and-out dog are really beautiful people in my book.

      I hope this book inspires you to think about adopting a less adoptable pet, or at least an adoptable one, for your next family member, if you haven’t already had the privilege of being a part of one’s life. At the very least, I hope these stories inspire you to share the good news with others: there is an adoptable dog out there for everyone; they are wonderful pets and deserving of love. -Kyla Duffy, Editor-in-Chief

      Inspiring Stories of Adopted Dogs, Vol. II

      The Dog Nobody Wanted

      My wife and I have lived in a small town in Southeastern Massachusetts for more than 13 years. I’ve been a dog person my whole life. As for my wife, well, not so much.

      We had a dog when we first moved into our home, an 85pound, larger-than-life moose they call a Golden Retriever. His name was Tucker. We raised him from a six-week-old pup, and he was the greatest dog I had ever known. Although he and my wife didn’t always see eye to eye, she loved him, and he was my constant and loyal companion for the eight years we were lucky enough to have him in our lives. When we lost him to a brain tumor at the young age of eight, I was devastated. I knew there would be other dogs in my life someday, but I had no idea when my heart would be ready.

      Near the end of Tucker’s life, we started a family and were blessed with two beautiful daughters. Full of life and love, our girls grew into the animal lovers we knew they would. Over the years our family grew with the addition of cats, birds, and fish, but I could never bring myself to replace that smiling golden face we had lost years before.

      Eventually I accepted a job for a company overseas. My wife and daughters remained back home, and now I commute home every few weeks to see them. A year or so ago our girls, then seven and eight, started asking about expanding the family again. They were growing up and wanted a dog. I was finally ready, but with me essentially living 6,000 miles away and my wife taking care of two kids, a home, a bird, and cats, we knew there was no way we could provide the right environment for a new puppy.

      My wife suggested adopting an adult dog. I didn’t say it to her at the time, but I thought the idea was absurd. Wasn’t Tucker such a great dog because we had spent so much time with him during those important, impressionable years? He had learned how he fit into our family from an early age, and the fit was, for the most part, seamless. How could we possibly get that same fit by bringing in a dog already set in his ways, a dog who someone else didn’t even want?

      My wife suggested we look on a website called Petfinder.com. One night, from 6,000 miles away, I pulled up the website. Okay, I thought. I’ll humor her.

      On Petfinder.com I saw Golden Retrievers, Jack Russell Terriers, purebreds, and mutts of all kinds. I remember thinking there was no way we were going to do this. Then I read a short description of a Collie in Southeastern Kentucky. His name was Shane. His foster mother had written about him – about how he was so well-behaved, about how much he loved kids. She couldn’t believe he had been in and out of homes his whole life and that his previous owners had surrendered him. But it wasn’t his story that touched me. A picture of Shane had been posted along with the description of him. It was his eyes. Looking at his eyes, it was so clear that despite all the hard knocks life had dealt him, despite the fact that someone had given up on him, he clearly hadn’t given up.

      I emailed my wife right away. He’s the one, I typed.

      Within an hour I had her reply. You’re right, she wrote, he’s the one. That day I contacted the East Kentucky Rescue. We filled out adoption papers, and within a week I started making flight arrangements. I flew 7,200 miles from Abu Dhabi to Columbus, Ohio. I arrived in Columbus at 10:30 at night, rented a car, and drove two hours into Kentucky. I can’t even tell you the name of the smoky hotel where I stayed, but after three hours of sleep, I drove on to meet Shane and his foster mom in Eastern Kentucky. That day Shane and I drove nine hours to Pennsylvania. We found a hotel that would accommodate a dog (and his owner), and the next morning we drove the final six hours to Carver, Massachusetts. We were home in time to get the girls off the bus from school that day.

      Looking back I would do it over again 1,000 times for Shane. He deserves it. He’s adjusted

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