Elderly German shepherd in high-kill shelter needs your help - URGENT
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris
Imagine you’re about 90 years old, and you can no longer see or hear so well, but you still have a big, loving heart. And yet suddenly you find yourself in a small concrete room in a busy building among complete strangers.
Maybe you don’t look too swell anymore, even though once upon a time you were glossy and handsome and strong, because for ages nobody has helped you with your personal grooming. In a long time, nobody has brushed your hair or teeth, or really done much for you at all.
So when people come into that building, because you’re old, and not that great-looking these days, they’re not exactly going to be falling all over each other to be the ones to get you out.
Stanley will give you his all. (Photo - BrightHaven)
Then imagine this: If nobody does get you out very, very soon, somebody is going to lead you into a special room that smells like fear, slip a needle into your arm, and fill you up with a dose of liquid death.
But what if somebody does get you out? Somebody with a heart at least as big and loving as yours, who believes with all that heart that even the old and not-so-pretty among us deserve dignity. Somebody who will give you at least a temporary, peaceful home until somebody else comes along to make you their very own best friend.
Today, right now, there is a gray-muzzled gentleman in just that predicament. A fellow who was once magnificent, as German shepherds tend to be, but who has fallen on the rocky road of hard luck.
His name is Stanley. He is in a high-kill shelter.
At age 13 – 15, he might not be able to see you perfectly, or to hear
every single word you say. But he gets around pretty well, and has a
lot of life left in him.
What is certain is that if you give him just a little of yourself, he
will give you all he’s got.
To help Stanley please contact: Great Kitty and
Doggy Rescue Greatkittyresq@gmail.com
Location: Tracy, California BUT TRANSPORT IS AVAILABLE!!!
Katerina Lorenzatos Makris is the author of 17 novels for
publishers including Avon, E.P. Dutton, and Simon & Schuster, and
hundreds of articles for publications such as National Geographic
Traveler, San Francisco Chronicle, and Veggie Life. She wrote a
teleplay for CBS and short fiction for The Bark magazine. With coauthor
Shelley Frost, she wrote Your
Adopted Dog
(The Lyons Press). Holding a B.A. in Environmental Science Studies and
a lifelong interest in animal issues, she spends a lot of her time
battling a severe addiction to dogs.
