Awesome thread, 1K.
Here's our Variety Pack. Mojo's on the left -- 130 lb. retriever/Newfie mix who thinks he's a lap dog. Shush-Yaz is on the right, 35 lb. matriarch of this clan. And that little thing in the back that looks like he was photoshopped in is Bebop, the world's most ragged looking poodle.
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Mojo: ran in front of my wife's car when he was smaller than the poodle. Clearly hungry and lost, she took him in and stuck up "Found Dog" posters around the neighborhood. Turned out someone had dumped a box of these puppies at an apartment complex near us. So, he stayed.
Shush-Yaz: A niece and nephew working on a reservation found this stray with a broken leg and took her in. Later, they adopted a pair of children from Liberia and were told that they were petrified of dogs, so they called Aunt Michelle (my wife) who they knew would take her in. She may look like a dog, but she has the soul of a cat.
Bebop: Sad story. Elderly couple with 25 poodles in the garage that had food thrown at them occasionally. After animal control folks got called in, the poodles were sent to shelters around the country. This one ended up in a shelter where my younger son was volunteering. The little guy, who had never seen anything but the inside of a garage for the first 5 or 6 years of his life, would just stand in the middle of his cage and shake. My son was the only person who could calm him down. They started calling my son in for extra days because Bebop wouldn't pee for anyone else. We brought him home.
Poor guy had serious PTSD. You got a sense of what life was like because for almost a year, the only way he'd eat was to sneak up to one of the food bowls when no one else was near it, take one piece, then run to a corner to eat it. It took about two years to get him to allow me to pick him up. Now, he's figured out he can eat as much as he wants and he loves to jump up on the couch and cuddle up to watch TV. He's really fascinated by MotoGP. Good boy.
