Huuy

Yesterday my husband and I made a bad choice! We decided it would be fun to go to the humane society and look at those sad dogs who are locked up in kennels all day. Bad idea in case you were ever wondering of doing this. It is especially bad when you live in an apartment where the landlord says no dogs EVER! So there we went to the humane society looking at those sweet dogs. Now I have been to the humane society plenty of times but I always went to the one in Eugene where the dogs have a big yard to play in and about three time the size kennels than they do here in Yakima. I was not expecting what we saw. So we are walking down the halls and we find Huuy. He was loud and rambunctious but had the sweetest face. We decided to take another dog, Carl, on a walk. Carl had been on a few walks already today so they asked us to pick another dog. I remembered Huuy and we choose him. We leashed him up and off we went. He was not at all interested in the walk. He just kept wanting to sniff us and walk in circles around me and VIc. After a few minutes we sat down at a park bench and he rubbed his head all over our legs and just sat there wanting us to pet him.He was not the hyper dog we thought he was in his kennel, all he wanted was some lovin'. So we loved on him for a while then continued on our walk. As we turned around to head back he started crying and pulling to go the other way. He knew that we were headed back and boy was he sad. It broke my heart! We stopped to love on him a while. I started to tear up a little thinking about what a sad life it is that he is stuck in that kennel all day and we were the only ones to take him outside for a walk. I then commented, "How sad for him to be locked up all day." Vic responded with, "Well it's better than death." WHAT?! He then proceeded to tell me about how the dogs are put down if they are not adopted in a certain amount of time. Well that really made the tears flow. I was crying harder than I have in months! I could just not stand the thought of that sweet loving dog being put down. We finally had to get up and take him back. I cried the whole walk back and when they put him back in his kennel. When we went to say goodbye to him I kneeled down and put my hand under the cage. My heart broke for that sweet dog. The whole rest of the day I was a mess. Crying whenever he was mentioned and I even looked at how much it would cost to break our one year lease so we could get into a house with a yard. No can do! Vic said that Huuy is not worth not getting our $400 deposit back. I even told my parents about him in hopes that would take him home until our lease is up and we can get a house and then take him back. But unfortunately that probably won't happen. Needless to say I am heartbroken! That dog was perfect and I just want him to have a good home! I plan on going back today to walk him. I know that I am tearing myself up if I go back but I cannot stand the thought of him being locked up all day! I just hope he gets adopted by a nice family who will love him and give him a good home!

Thankful For...

• Being able to visit my sweet sister in law, Eva while she was in Seattle.
• My niece who turned four on Saturday! What a fun and crazy four years it has been, Hannah I love you so much!
• My new sewing machine!!!
• My wonderful husband :)
• God's faithfulness!