This is going to be loooong.... but I love to talk about my pets.
Here's Coco, a rescue and one of the sweetest and most incredibly intelligent dogs I've ever known. Like, scary smart. I think she's smarter than me, but that's not hard to do.
Mr. Doom found her when he was working in an impoverished area. She was sickly thin, had a respiratory infection, and was drinking out of a nasty litter-filled retention pond. He'd seen her for a couple of days, and had been bringing her food. The third day, he saw some kids kicking her. One of them said he was going to "feed her" to his fighting dog. My husband walked up and said, "HEY! That's MY dog!" and the boys backed off, and he took her home. This man used to hate dogs and told me he'd never want one in the house. I was thinking I'd never change his mind. Now, she's always at his side and he adores her. She's happy, healthy, and we couldn't have asked for a more loyal dog.
This is Wicket, although the kids renamed her Velveteen. As Star Wars fans, Mr. Doom and I absolutely refuse to go with the new name, so we still call her Wicket. Poor little confused bunny.
My aunt was walking her dog in the park and found this bunny wandering around. She knew it was a domesticated bunny, so she brought it home. I had just released my squirrels (I rescued two babies after the '04 hurricanes) so I had supplies, and she offered me the bunny. The first thing I said was "no". I had been cleaning squirrel poop for months and I wanted a break. But... once the family heard about it, I was overruled. I'm glad they talked me into it, though, because she has been an awesome little bunny. She's sweet and lovey, and comes when you call her, like a puppy. When we took her in, she was so scrawny that her hip bones and spine jutted out of her paper-thin skin. We've fattened her up and now she's one healthy little girl.
I'm trying to find pics of the cats but I think I'm going to have to raid the kids' iPods for those. They have a TON of pet pics.
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