Buenos Dias Y'all!!!
Don't forget to vote for Aunt Helenes shelter today!!
Just go to www.theanimalrescuesite.com
and click on the vertical tab "shelter challenge." Then click on Costa Rica for the country and click search and look for "Asociacion Elena - Perros que ME encontraron"
Click on that and click VOTE and then type in the letters/numbers that
appear to confirm your vote!!!! The next time you go to the vote site
there should be a little thing at the bottom of the vote thing that
says, "This is the shelter you voted for during your last visit." All ya
gotta do is click VOTE!! Ya don't even have to do a search anymore.
Here's Aunt Helenes story for Sunday!!!
Dear friends of Frances!
Many
times I get an e-mail or a phone call from people visiting Costa Rica
and being worried about a dog they have seen in special situations. The
problem often is they cannot take him with them home – too short time
until their flights back, too long time needed to make the paperwork –
we need four months to get the papers for a dog who found his home in
Europe.
Two
years ago I travelled to Playa Santa Teresa to look for a dog a couple
from Germany could not forget. I wanted to help to find the dog, bring
him to me, make all the paperwork and send him to Germany (normally
after four months). I did this many times.
Arriving
Santa Teresa I walked the beach up and down with the photo of the dog
in my hand and asking people and looking around. One man told me he
knows the dog but has hasn´t seen him for many days. Finally I went to
the hotel where the couple from German spent their vacations. Marysol in
the reception – a wonderful, kind lady got tears in the eyes when I
asked her for the dog and she told me that exactly this dog was adopted
one week after the German couple left and lives now with his new family
in California. We both were crying for happiness. I asked her for the
e-mail from the lady who spent days in her vacations on the phone to get
the permission to take the dog home with her.
I
traveled back to my dogs and wrote the German couple and they were very
happy about the good news. I wrote also to the lady in California. She
didn´t answer me and I wrote again:
Dear Audry!
I
bag you please write me only three words: Paco is fine! and I will
never border you again. Thank you. It would make me happy.
I send you my best wishes, also to your family. Love Helene
This was her wonderful answer:
Hi Helene,
You are very kind to be so concerned about Paco. I am so happy he is loved all over the world. You are a blessing to this world.
Please
don't feel like you are a burden or that you are being ignored. I am
not in my email's religiously. :) I would rather be hiking with my dogs.
There is only so much time in a day and I choose to be with my family
rather than at a computer.:) Its a time thief.
Paco
is a very healthy and happy little dog. I will be sending you a photo
of the family and updates of Paco. We have been working with a dog
trainer since we have been back and he is SO smart. He sits, lays,
shakes, heels, goes to his "place", settles down when asked, and we are
still working on the jumping. We walk and hike daily and he loves his
Yorkie brother, chihuahua sister, and his two kitties. All the dogs are
on an organic raw diet and WOW has his coat changed. We cook there food
every morning and evening. It contains meat, veggies, fruits and we add
brown rice. We mix this with organic dry food. Paco also LOVES his
treats and his toys. They all share a big basket of dogs toys and all
day long when we are picking up toys all over the house. He is a dog toy
fanatic.
You
can no longer see his bones, the whites of his eyes are beautifully
bright, and he is flea, tick and parasite free. He will be getting fixed
in July and have a chip put it.
Paco
is very loyal and protective and always wants to be touching myself,
Ryan, or one of the other animals (sometimes he thinks he is a small
dog). At night when we go to bed he snuggles right smack between my
husband and I. I end up spooning him more than my husband. When I wake
up in the middle of the night Paco is sleeping on his back with his long
legs sticking straight up in the air. It is hilarious.
Right now he is on one of the couch's with the Yorkie snuggled up and sleeping. I want his life. hehe!
Let me get some good shots this weekend of all of us together and I promise I will send them to you next week.
Thanks for checking on our little family.
Much love to you,
Audri Geary
I
hope you all liked the story which was and is touching my heart. I have
still tears in my eyes when I read from Audri: “When I wake up in the
middle of the night Paco is sleeping on his back with his long
legs sticking straight up in the air”. These are the moments and the
stories they let me keep on doing what I do.
Please
allow me to ask you to keep voting for me. Frances is worried that we
are losing ground. She has the experience. I would need your vote every
day until 17 of June.
Thank you with all my heart. Love. Helene
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