Friday, September 20, 2013

New Love, Good Karma

Meet Elliot, a six year old English Setter boy who has joined my family.  We found Elliot online and it is all Twitter's fault.  I wasn't looking for a dog, but the SPCA of Central Florida tweeted something that took me to their website.  I figured while I was there I would just peruse the homeless doggies' list.  I didn't spot any dog that struck my fancy, but I decided that since I had come this far, I'd do a quick search on petfinder.com for "setter".  A bunch of local dogs popped up and Elliot was among them. 
 
I said it is all Twitter's fault, but that, in fact, isn't true.  Twitter played the starting role, but my friend Janet from Colorado, mistress of the Colorado cuties (mostly of the labrador variety) is the major one at fault.  She adopted a labrador about a year or so ago and named the tyke Elliott (two t's).  I probably never would have clicked on my Elliot's profile if his name was Harry, but I was drawn to the name so I had to look.
 
My Elliot is a wonderful dog who just had bad karma.  He was adopted and loved twice, but change in job and housing circumstances for the humans had him returned to the rescue group both times.  Not his fault.  Just lives changed and now, so has Elliot's.  He is in his furever home and we couldn't be happier.  In just a week's short time he fits in like he always lived here.  He has adapted to our shedule and is eating heartedly now, putting on some much needed weight.  The initial timidness is fading and he is holding his own with the resident setters, who are learning to accept him as well.
 
In reality, Elliot never had bad karma....his karma was good all the while.  He was given a good karma name when he initially entered rescue as a stray.  His prior stewards kept his good karma name which led him to me.  Funny how that works out.
 
 
 

6 comments:

Ellen Honeycutt said...

What a handsome guy. Congratulations to all of you.

Loret said...

thanks Ellen! he is a sweet boy.

Donna@Gardens Eye View said...

What a handsome fellow and you are both lucky to have found each other

Unknown said...

Wonderful, a new fur-child! Happiness to you both!

Rambling Woods said...

Oh how sweet and I am so happy to hear a happy story about now. I too have a rescued Elliot, but mine is an orange tabby cat and we have his brother Oliver too.. they were left sick in a park 11 years ago... Michelle

Unknown said...

We're a dog-rescue family, and our furevers (I like that!) have brought joy and meaning to our lives. In two instances, we were there waiting for Chadwick as he struggled to survive tertiary mange, and helped turn around a quarrelsome disposition of a Silky Terrier who'd been raised with 9 other dogs and learned to be tough to get through each day. Love works each and every time. ;-)

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