{"id":695,"date":"2011-04-27T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wb4eje.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2011-05-09T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T15:49:03","slug":"answers-to-the-name-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"Answers to the name “Lucky”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the old joke about the lost dog:<\/p>\n

Lost Dog
\n3 Legs, blind in left eye, missing right ear, broken tail, recently castrated, answers to the name “Lucky.”<\/h2>\n

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Well, “Lucky” lives at our house.<\/p>\n

After we lost our miniature dachshund some months ago Barb had been on the look out for new dog to adopt.\u00a0 She browsed a couple of the local Humane Society websites and county animal shelter websites.\u00a0 She found one that she though was interesting at Forsyth County Humane Society.\u00a0 He was a miniature poodle named Lucky and this was his photo that was on the Humane Society website:<\/p>\n

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Lucky's mug shot<\/p><\/div>\n

Barb contacted the Humane Society to see Lucky, but he was in foster care and several weeks went by before we were able to meet Lucky.\u00a0 Barb finally got in contact with his foster “Mother” and she said, “You know that Lucky has only three legs don’t you?”\u00a0 Well, that wasn’t mentioned on the website.\u00a0 It shocked Barb but she made an appointment to see him on a Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

When we got there we met Lucky and you would never know that he had three legs.\u00a0 He got around just fine.\u00a0 He seemed like he was just as happy and friendly as could be.\u00a0 The story was, Lucky was found in a ditch by the road.\u00a0 His left rear leg was badly broken.\u00a0 The leg was partly healed and folded up under him which made it hard for him to get around so they had to remove the leg.\u00a0 Also, his teeth were in terrible shape and they had to remove them too.\u00a0 And you can see from his photo that he has cataracts in both eyes.\u00a0 I asked the foster Mother if she knew the old joke about the dog named “Lucky” and she just smiled and said that was how he got his name.<\/p>\n

Well, Barbara looked at me and said, “If we don’t adopt this dog, nobody is going too.”\u00a0 I agreed and we took him home.\u00a0\u00a0 Well, not directly….in the car on the way home Barbara called Lisa, the lady that grooms our dogs, and made Lucky an “emergency” appointment.\u00a0 He was kinda smelly, his coat was matted, and he just looked like he could use a good bath.\u00a0 Lisa is a sweetheart and worked him in on that very Saturday morning.\u00a0\u00a0 We picked Lucky up later that day and this is what he looked like:<\/p>\n

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Lucky after a little "Lisa Magic"<\/p><\/div>\n

Looks like a different dog doesn’t he?<\/p>\n

After a visit to the vet the next week we also found out that Lucky has an enlarged heart.\u00a0 He appears to be at least 10 years old, and from his condition we know he has had one tough life.\u00a0 Barbara is determined that his last years will be his best.<\/p>\n

I have to say that I was a bit concerned that Lucky, with all his health problems, might not have been a good choice.\u00a0 But I was sooo wrong on that!\u00a0 After a few months of getting to know Lucky, he is just the sweetest little dog.\u00a0 He loves his people.\u00a0 When you pick him up he will snuggle his head up under you neck and just win your heart right on the spot.\u00a0 He gets around on three legs just fine.\u00a0 We discovered that he can go up stairs too, if he wants to.\u00a0 He has a hard time going down stairs, and for that he expects to be carried.<\/p>\n

That’s our Lucky.\u00a0 The folks at the Forsyth County Humane Society are just great.\u00a0 They did a really good job getting Lucky back into shape.\u00a0 Hopefully Lucky will be able to live out his years with his new people and enjoy it!<\/p>\n

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Remember the old joke about the lost dog: Lost Dog 3 Legs, blind in left eye, missing right ear, broken tail, recently castrated, answers to the name “Lucky.”   Well, “Lucky” lives at our house. After we lost our miniature dachshund some months ago Barb had been on the look out for new dog to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}