I never actually adopted Annie from a rescue group. She was seized (independently) by a colleague of mine, Lisa, who owns a moving company. Lisa happened to be on sight at a house her business was moving and noticed Annie tied up in a corner of a decrepit house covered in her own excrement from nobody cleaning her up.
Lisa grabbed a towel, picked up the dog and announced she was seizing the dog and if they had a problem with it they could call the Humane Society or the police. The "low life" people that had her just shrugged their shoulders and seemed relieved to get rid of her.
I went to Lisa's business to do a photo shoot and met Annie and fell in love with her. When Lisa saw how I was with her, she let me have her.
Annie's health issues could not be dealt with medically and we really had little choice to put her to sleep (even though I was in denial at first). If we only had to extract the teeth, laser the breast cancer and open her up hoping we were lucky enough to be able to remove the two huge tumours - it would have been a possibility. The vet said that after recovering, she would likely have started to fade from the failure of her liver. If it was just the teeth, breast cancer and tumours it would have been worth a try. Everything combined with her liver made everything very bleak. |