"Pretty Girl" the Husky

Robbie and I were driving home Saturday night on a pretty busy road, when Robbie spotted a stray dog. We are such dog lovers, and whenever we see a lost or stray dog we stop and make sure the dog is okay and try to get it to it's owners. So when we saw this dog it terrified us to see that this dog was in great danger of being hit by a car. She was walking with a limp, and she was quite dazed--so we're pretty sure she had already been hit.

We finally got this dog to our Jeep and out of the street by walking along side her and "guiding" her. Otherwise, she kept trying to go back out into the road. Upon closer inspection we noticed that she had no collar, was soaking wet, her fur was greatly neglected, and she was very disoriented. We didn't see anyone around out looking for her. So we took her home until we could take her to the Humane Society in the morning.

We started calling her "Pretty Girl" because she is beautiful, and so mild mannered. Once we were home we checked for more signs of trauma and watched closely to make sure she didn't go into shock. Thankfully she made it through the night, and even ate a few bits of food.

"Pretty Girl" has either been lost for a while, or was abandoned by her owners (if there is a better one, we'd hoped for the latter). You could tell by the shape of her coat (matted, chunks of hair coming out). Her eyes had a lot of drainage, and her teeth were quite yellow. And the way she walked with a limp indicates she was either injured or was suffering from hip displaysia.




We took her to the same Humane Society where we rescued our Siberian Husky, Belle. The first question they asked was the same we struggled with all night: "Do you want to keep her if the owners aren't found?" (she was microchipped, but no info came up in the computer) It was very, very, very, difficult to say no. She is an awesome dog. And we would have loved to rehabilitate her just like we did with Belle. But the timing isn't right.

From experience with Belle we know what it takes to rehab an abandoned dog, even when they are so sweet and mild. They need to be socialized and house trained. It took a few months to get Belle up to par, and with the new baby coming in just a few months that would be too much for everyone, including Belle.

So while we sat in the parking lot after taking her in, the thoughts that comforted us was the hope that someone else like Robbie and I would have the opportunity to give her a good home. "Pretty Girl" can be the awesome rescue story for someone else like Belle was for us.