God Bless the Tampa Bay Beagle Rescue - they've helped fill a void after my wonderful Millie went to join her four preceding sister beagles in heaven. My wife and I went up to the Tampa area several weeks ago to meet the group, and we filled out paperwork to foster and adopt. We watched the web site, and saw a boy beagle named Jericho. We fell in love over the Internet with this little guy, and were fortunate enough to take over his fostering, with intent to adopt.Beagles who go through their program, which serves many, many counties out of the Tampa area, are given a new leash (pun intended) on life, and the guy we loved came from the Hillsborough County pound. He did not have a microchip, and therefore the family who lost or abandoned this wonderful dog could not be notified. We've chipped all of our dogs, and beagles are known to roam, so it's only prudent. They also provide shots, and in the case of our little guy, they check for heart worms.Our boy tested positive, so he still has a heart worm treatment ahead of him. He's taking pills, but sometime in January he'll go to the vet (provided by the TBBR people) for an overnight stay, and then will have to be kept calm for fifteen days while the shots take effect and hopefully purge any remaining worms.
Anyway, he's going to be fine, we're certain. He was living with a lovely person an hour north of us, and after tearful good-byes (he grows on you, very quickly), we got into the Corvette and brought him home. He sat in the back, and was a very good traveler. This is probably only the first of many stories about Ripley, believe it or not.
Ripley, you don't know how lucky you are to have found such a kind and loving home. And when you say your doggie prayers, howl out a "thank you' to the late Millie, who paved the way for you and taught your new friends how to rightly center their lives around the four-legged member of the family.
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