Diamond a shelter survivor

Diamond's life did not start out very grand. This beautiful girl was chained up outside her owner's home and had no life at all. Even as a young dog she had a couple of litters of puppies and was never spayed. When she was off the chain, she would visit the car dealer business nearby and may have wished to stay with them. When her owners attempted to burglarize that business, Diamond was the one to alert for help that resulted in her owners getting arrested. While they went to jail, Diamond then found herself in a high kill shelter in West Tennessee with no hope of rescue. She was in a large pen with a lot of other dogs. The dogs often got into dog fights and did not always get along. but Diamond was a good girl and was not interested in fighting. She just wanted to be loved. 

We entered Diamond's life after she had been living at the shelter for about six months I think. She was one of our favorites as we networked dogs to get them rescued. Because she was a big dog, she was often over looked. My friends and I promised Diamond we would do everything we could to get her rescued. Diamond was in an outside pen at the shelter. Some of the inside dogs began to get sick with coughing and upper respiratory symptoms. It was then that a great lady stepped up and offered to foster Diamond but Tracy was out of state and needed a rescue. Lucky for Diamond a rescue stepped up and took her in. They were able to provide a temporary foster for Diamond until she was able to get to Tracy. It was after Diamond was rescued, that the dogs with upper respirator infections were discovered to have distemper. Diamond continued to appear to be a healthy dog and now a happy one to have been rescued from the shelter.

Diamond does not know how close she came to being euthanized. She just is happy to no longer have to avoid the dogs that wanted to pick fights. She is happy that she is no longer chained to the front porch. Tracy tells me Diamond is a sweetheart. She loves her life now. She says Diamond has made it her job to make sure all the wild bunnies around her home stay in their burrow. Diamond loves playing and just enjoying life. She is a shelter survivor. Often there are not enough of those.


Special thanks to Tracy for fostering and Paws New England for saving this girls's life! 

                                                    Diamond is front and center, hanging with her four friends.