{"id":157,"date":"2008-11-03T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8statekate.aucado.us\/wordpress\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-12-06T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T04:20:23","slug":"confusion-in-minnesota-and-an-old-cattle-dog-finds-a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Confusion in Minnesota and An Old Cattle Dog Finds A New Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a confusing day here in Minnesota. It was 73 degrees outside this afternoon, shirt sleeve weather. Yet the sun was low in the sky by the time I left work. The sky was dark at 5:30 pm, reminding us that it really is November. At 9:30 this evening, I had the screen <\/span>door open and was listening to the crickets outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

The price of gas was 1.999<\/sup> at a station that I passed on the way home. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember gas costing less than $2 per gallon in the past 5 years. I wonder what it will cost the day after the election? Better fill up now!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Barack Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grandmother died last night. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad he took the time to suspend his campaign and visit her last week, showing that family really is more important to him. If he had waited until after the election, he would have been too late to see her one last time. No bragging about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153family values\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but leading by example instead\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Yesterday I received a nice surprise. A man from Alaska wrote on ACD-L that he had adopted an 8 year old ACD from Pasado\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Safe Haven. He wanted to thank the woman who had posted the original message. That was my friend Eileen, who coordinates many of the rescue posts for ACD-L and the AuCaDo Rescue Forum. I remembered looking on the Pasado\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Safe Haven website a little while back and being surprised to see an older red ACD girl who had been picked up as a stray. Thinking that it was probably a long shot, I forwarded her information to Eileen, who posted it widely among the ACD community. So I was delighted yesterday to see that this wonderful man had flown down to Washington State to adopt her. After traveling back to Alaska with him to her new forever home, she is now named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gypsy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember why I was on the Pasado\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website that day. I first met volunteers from Pasado\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Safe Haven in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. They were taking care of rescued animals at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, LA. My friend Connie from the Seattle area is one of the Pasado\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s volunteers that I met there.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Here’s more information from Bruce in Alaska:\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>To whomever mentioned Gypsy at Pasado’s Safe Haven, thank you very much. I think it was the lady with the Stinkwads! And to Susan Nevada from Silver Aurora Kennels in Wasilla Alaska. Thanks so ever much for taking time to come look at my place for Pasado’s Safe Haven. Gypsy is at home with me now. She is a healthy but ageing red female ACD with some arthritis in the back hips and elbows. She was extremely well cared for at Pasado’s. They are a wonderful shelter and haven for older animals. She and Patches are getting along very well and I think she is going to be the alpha bitch.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Lots of fierce growling with the tug toys but no real fights. One accident in the house and now uses the winter airlock dog door every time with no prompting. A short stepstool for her to get on the bed and good snuggles from two ADCs each night. Now that is heaven in this cold weather!<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
Thank you also for spotting her.\u00c2\u00a0Pasado\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s is REALLY strict about who they will let one of their rescues out to, but after pictures from my dogsitter, Susanna Nevada driving 60 miles to look at my house (a day before leaving for Great Britain with dogs) and me changing my flights twice and spending a night in Seattle, Gypsy is at her forever home and is already established as Alpha Bitch of the two dog one human pack\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/em><\/span>I do not have the energy or time to raise another ACD from puppyhood (did that three times), but I can sure care for a couple of older ones.\u00c2\u00a0Patches is a 8yo rescue also<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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Awww\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always nice to find someone who has a soft spot for the older dogs. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great to hear of this happy ending for Gypsy!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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