My Nonprofit Reviews

We have a grand-daughter that is disabled. She has encephalopathy. She develops mentally & socially at a much slower pace than normal. She is 4 & 1/2 years old but emotionally, mentally and socially she is about at 10 months of age. She does not walk or talk but is the light of our lives. She had a dog since the day she was born named Dodge. They were inseparable until she turned 4 and Dodge was gone. Dodge was a rescue too. We knew we had to get her another friend so after a while we decided to look. We came to your website and saw you had so many incoming from recent flooding so drove on up. We asked about a few of the dogs and listened to their history before asking to spend time with any of them. Then came Bud's story. First they said he was only 2 years old, house trained - but he had heart worms. They then asked if we wanted to hear any more because most of the time people do not want a dog with heart worms. We said we still wanted to sit with him and see how he did with our grand-daughter. As soon as we sat in that room with him we knew we could not send him back to his kennel. I stayed in the room with him while my husband went to fill out the adoption papers. This is the dog we saw being taken to potty when we pulled up. This was FATE! When you learn that a family member is ill - you don't abandon them - you try to help them. Bud was only 2 and our grand-daughter is 4. We were not going to turn our backs on either of them! They both are the most loving, adorable family members we have. No one is perfect but everyone and every dog needs a loving family! When my husband went to do the papers he said all the volunteers were so happy for Bud and they were surprised we adopted him. We have been home for about a month and started his heart worm treatments (which the Humane Society helped us find a place that works with you on the cost to where you only pay for the medicine). Bud was house trained and he tells you when he needs to go outside, he will even wake you up. He sits on his hind legs and waves both his front paws at you for attention and he will try to talk to you. He loads up in the truck to go bye-bye and will sit between his parents in the front seat. Him and our grand-daughter are both getting used to each others ways but as you can see they are doing fine! I try to make him sleep with me but he prefers his own bed. We are very blessed to have found Bud and we thank Austin Humane Society for all their help in finding the dog we needed and who needed us!