Sugar was so full of heartworms
when she was rescued, she didn't have the energy to walk around Petco. She found
a soft, fluffy bed and plopped down in it.
Over the next year in foster care,
she became healthier and regained her zest for life. Sugar never really found a
home until her final days.
Tracing back Sugar's past, we
found out she never really had a home. She was just a "gypsy girl" and lived
from pillar to post. After coming to rescue, she was adopted to one home where
she left and found a home down the road. She repeated this pattern until her
rescuer picked her up and placed her on a farm. Sugar took to having baby goats
to watch over.
No one ever really knew Sugar's
age. She was like an old movie star. She hid her age very well and was much
older than she acted. Sugar was able to live on the farm about a year before she
went under the house one evening and passed away. This was the longest she had
been in one place other than the foster home.
We think Sugar found a little
piece of happiness before she passed away. Sugar was one of those dogs who was
never really "owned" by anyone. She has finally found her home in heaven where
she won't have to worry anymore about where her next meal and warm bed will be.
