 Jake's Story
Our friends, Nancy and Eric, belong to a local freecycle group.
Basically it is a website where a member can offer, for free,
"stuff" that they don't want. One day in April, Nancy and Eric
happened upon a Wheaten looking dog being offered for free on the
site and sent it to my attention.
The person offering the dog was requesting anyone interested in
the dog submit a letter stating why they would be the best person to
take this dog. Seems that a few nights earlier there had been a
great thunder and lightning storm and this dog had shown up, scared
and shaking, in this person's yard. She couldn't afford to keep the
dog.
I
sent her an e-mail and told her the dog looked like a Wheaten and
that WIN would like to be considered to place the dog. The woman
agreed and met me in the parking lot of a nearby vet clinic. Poor
little guy was scared and shaking like a leaf so I named him Jakey
like shakey Jakey. The vet clinic checked him for a microchip. He
had none. I then placed a found ad in the newspaper to see if his
owner was looking for him. While Jakey was very cute, he definitely
was not a Wheaten but I had taken him so that we could secure him a
good home.
After attempts to locate Jake's owner's failed, we began to look
for a new forever home for Jake. Friends of ours, Bobbi and Jay, had
a Wheaten mix and were considering adding another dog to their
family. They came over and visited with Jake and then we took Jake
to visit his potential new home and brother, Bennie. Both dogs had
fun playing together so it was apparent that Jake had found his new
home.
Jake's new neighbors have a Jack Russell named Martini or Tini
for short. In keeping with the beverage theme, Jake was renamed
Cosmopolitan or Cosmo for short!
Cosmo is enjoying his new life. His new "mom" is a massage
therapist so he gets to make house calls and visit with the clients
that come to his house. He also is a welcome visitor at the local
nursing home where he entertains one and all with his continuously
wagging tail and happy go lucky attitude. It's a good life for this
boy found on the streets!
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