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| Tutu is looking for her forever home! |
Joe Sanford, engineer and animal lover, is our guest blogger today. Here is Buddy, Joe, and Buddy's best dog friend Beau.
Labs Love Carrabba’s Too!
It was a typical Wednesday morning, get up feed the dog,
take the dog out to do his business, shower, get ready for work, take the dog
out again and head out for the day…if you are a dog parent you know the
routine! Well that is where this daily
routine stopped…As I headed to work for some reason I decided to stop in at the
local Wally World to get snacks for my office, so I was still not far from
home. As I was headed back to my car,
snacks in tow, my cell phone rings and I see it is my neighbor. I answered, “Hey Frank!, what’s up?”…he said
well not to alarm you but we walked by your front door this morning and we
smelled smoke and it sounds like your smoke alarm is “going off” but don’t see
any smoke and certainly no flames!! But
they knew my dog Buddy stays at home during the day and they were worried about
him J So I hurried home, ran up the 4 flights of stairs
and rushed to my front door. I too
smelled smoke but the door was not hot so I just opened it right up. Then as if the fog was rolling in across the
Golden Gate Bridge smoke came rolling out into the hall way and Buddy came
slinking out through the “fog” not thinking that I was just happy he was okay
but rather knowing he had done something really bad…
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| Buddy - with that "who could resist me" expression |
You see Buddy has a serious
illness known as CSS (Counter Surfer Syndrome) and today he had stepped up his
game. You see the night before I had
dined at Carrabba’s Italian Restaurant and is customary I came home with some
fresh baked bread to snack on. As it was
late when I came in I put my “to go” sack with bread and condiments on the
stove top for safe keeping. Apparently,
the aroma was more than Buddy could take and he decided he needed a mid-morning
snack! You see Buddy the black lab weighs
in at about 100 lbs. and can easily reach the back of the counter if he decides
to put his paws up there. Well that day he did just that but instead of the
counter he proceeded to put his paws up on the stove which he accidentally
turned ON….high, as he was going for the Carrabba’s booty! It just took a moment for the stove top to
get red hot and when the stove top gets red hot it tends to burn/melt anything
left sitting on it. As it turns out
there was a plastic container AND my bag of bread on the eye that Buddy turned
on. The plastic container became a
sticky blob of goo, which eventually charred to a tough as iron baked on
plastic, the bag caught fire and toasted the bread AND the wall behind my stove
and the cabinets above to boot!! Luckily
for my hungry puppy the bag fire was not hot enough to actually fully ignite
the cabinets and wall, just hot enough to create a smoky smoldering mess and
get him a free ride to work with his Daddy…
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| Tutu |
Tutu came from the Scottsboro Animal
Control. She is about 20 lbs and 8 years. In great shape for her age. Tutu is incredibly calm and
sweet! She follows her foster mom everywhere and really loves
nothing more than curling up on the couch next to her. She is sleeping a lot. The first night she was very scared and slept
in the bed. The second night she slept
all night in her bed on the floor. She
was scared of stairs at first but within a couple days she was going up and
down them! She is a bit slow on stairs - she may have some arthritis in her
hips.
She is pretty good at being house
trained. She has had a few accidents but
if she is scooped up quickly first thing in the morning and gets outside she is
fine. She is not very good on a leash -
she just kind of stands still in the yard for a while. She is great with other d ogsand she ignores
the cats. She is eating and drinking
great. She is really one of the sweetest
dogs. Tuti would be great for a retired
person because she loves being around people.
She whines when her foster mom is out of sight.
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