Shakira one of my rescue Dogs

I have two dogs now and both came from no kill rescue shelters.
In 2014 my old faithful Leo the Great Pyrenees had developed hip dysplasia. He was a good boy and a real trooper.
He was 13 years old and had already outlived the life expectancy of the Pyrenees breed, I spoiled him rotten because the love was unconditional.

I had to do the unthinkable and have him put down because of various health issues. I did so on May 21, 2014. :)
I was there for him to the bitter end. He sat like a "Good Boy" when they injected the pink fluid into his right front leg that they had shaved.

That day really sucked because on that day he had really perked up. He had perked up because he went for a "Car Ride" ( He loved car rides) The nurse also helped hold him during his final breath, when the "pink fluid" hit him he took a big gasp and relaxed like a big fluffy white cloud and floated to the floor. I see the big fluffy clouds of May I see him often. (Goose bumps)
Long story short...

Christmas was approaching and I was very sad. I used to spend my Christmas holidays with some extra time snuggling my best buddy but he was no longer greeting me at the front door when I came home from work, he was at the rainbow bridge playing with all the other animals. Seems he had forgotten me or so it seems. I was so sad and dreaded coming home to an empty doorway. There was no more fur on the carpets, there was no longer emptied bowls to fill. the tears and the sadness would overwhelm me each day as Christmas approached, I was a wreck.

To fill my time and in hopes of finding some companionship I resorted to Facebook. I was a mess. Clicking on the most unfeeling crap in the world.
All of a sudden this one post popped up over and over again. The post was from a facebook page called "Heaven can wait" It caught my eye!!!

In that first post I saw that they were asking for temporary volunteers to foster rescue animals for the Christmas holidays, they said it would help the animals and give the staff a break. I perked right up and was now sitting on the edge of me seat.

I will insert the rest of the happy story here in this spot another day.

Long story short I volunteered to take in a big badass Mastiff Shepard x I failed profusely at the temporary part and he is now with me forever. Turns out after all that Leo whom was playing and frolicking at the rainbow bridge didn't forget me after all. He sent me Wrangler. If that wasn't enough a year later the kennel sent me a text :) :) :) asking me if I could do it again and take on one more temporary fostering, I failed again at the temporary part and on Christmas day I asked Shakira if I could keep her. It would give you goose bumps if you were with me that day. You should have seen her swirl around in circles in JOY when she said yes.

I just broke down crying with happy tears as I was typing this...I will have to pick up later where I left off....