Lori. Michigan

Rosie is home. She showed up at about 4 PM at my friend’s house. This is a house she knows very well – her home away from home. She stays there when I go on vacations, etc. Based on a description you gave me early in the week I knew she had been on the road, which led to the back way into their subdivision. We put a dog bed out there with extra dog and cat clippings of the animals of her extended family and had Alice (her housemate) pee a lot around there. I suspect that worked. She came to the house, hopped the fence as usual and went in the dog door. When my friend Don returned from his afternoon search of Rose – she was in the house. Poor man has spent the evening in his recliner crying he is so overcome with emotion. She is injured – a barbed wire injury we suspect. Completely de-nuded the skin on part of the interior of her hock and actually cracked a small bone in there. It is quite swollen and she has a fever. She cannot put weight on it. I wonder how long she has been running on 3 legs….tonight however, we felt she needed food and rest – she will have surgery on this badly damaged skin in the morning. So while Rosie is in surgery tomorrow I will take down all the flyers and get the thank you ad in the paper. So many people helped. It is a wonderful story of compassion and friendship and a community reaching out to help find a poor little lost dog, very heartwarming. There is a lesson here and I will learn it. Hopefully I will develop the few skills that I have in this area of animal talk. I knew that she would have to find her way home – we would not find her. I also knew she would have an injured leg and my worry was that she would be disabled permanently. But this should heal nicely. But right now I’m going to have another margarita. Thank you Joan. I hope we get to meet someday – you are a classy lady and I admire your gift and how you use it.

-Lori. Michigan