Please give Dulcy and Tess a chance to live

This was sent by a friend. Please spread the word about Dulcy and Tess? Give them a chance to live after losing their "mom" to cancer. What a shame for these two loving animals to be destroyed.



Dulcy and Tess
Apr. 21st, 2008 at 3:11 PM

I posted this on a local forum, but I'm trying to get as much exposure for these two as possible. If you know of someone who can help, please let me know...

Here is another adoption story, but one with a slightly more dire deadline... Elderly dogs are always hard to rehome and these two, while healthy, may not have much longer to live before they are euthanized simply because no one will take them. These dogs have done nothing more than outlive their owner:

Dulcy and Tess are 12 years old. They were adopted as babies, and lived happily together in Ardencroft until their “mom” died last October.

Now, Underground Dog Rescue (UDR) volunteer Beverly Ford says unless someone gives them a home, they are going to die, too.

Tess is a healthy female Labrador Retriever. Dulcy, short for Dulcinea, is a female Golden Retriever showing early signs of arthritis in one hind leg, but is otherwise healthy. Both dogs come with complete medical records.

Both were well groomed, fed and cared for by Donna Dreisbach until she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in November 2006. As Dreisbach’s health deteriorated and hospitals stays lengthened, a family friend helped look after the dogs in Dreisbach’s Veale Road home, in Brandywine Hundred. The following August, the friend moved in to be a companion for Dreisbach in her final months.

Before Dreisbach died, she made her family promise that her beloved pups would never see a shelter.

That’s been a tough promise to keep for Dreisbach’s sister, Heidi Springer, because she has a dog of her own that she rescued in 1999, one that is too aggressive for other animals to share in the Coatsville, Pa. home.

For the past six months, the family friend has continued to live at Dreisbach’s house rent-free in exchange for caring for the dogs, everyone hoping a new home could be found for them.

But the Petfinder.com: Adopt a pet and help an animal shelter rescue a puppy or kitten. listing through UDR has not found a family, the burden of two mortgages has been hard on Springer, and she finally put Dreisbach’s house the market. When it’s sold, the dogs will have nowhere to go.

“The sad truth is that they will be euthanized,” Springer says.

Ford hopes someone will come forward before that happens. In one last blitz effort, UDR volunteers canvassed area pet stores recently with pictures of the dogs and their story.

Ford, a government affairs official, was a founding member of the rescue nearly four years ago, and has been passionate about the issue for more than 20 years, because she has seen too many cases like this –healthy, happy dogs killed because no one wants them.

“There are a lot of Dulcy and Tesses out there, and the number is rising as foreclosures force more families out of their homes into housing that often doesn’t allow dogs,” Ford says. “I am not an activist, but I respect dogs, and I think they deserve better.”

The Chadds Ford, Pa. based rescue takes shelter dogs just before they slated to be destroyed, then works to permanently place them in appropriate homes. So far, UDR has been directly responsible for saving 55 dogs. Volunteer staff “temperament test” each dog to ensure the best family match.

(http://communitypub.com/stories/04-1...nize-dogs.html)

UDR does not have facilities, but rather works through fostering their animals until an adoptive home can be found. If you are interested in adopting Dulcy and Tess or can foster them until an adoptive home can be found, please contact Beverly Ford at 559-4793.

For more on Dulcy and Tess, go to: www.petfinder.com/shelters/PA395.html

Dear John and Hillary

I hate to break this to you but Obama was right. I *am* bitter. I am a baby boomer who has worked hard her whole life in an attempt to find the American dream but it keeps moving on me.

I thought teaching was a noble profession that would earn me a comfortable living but in the past few decades teachers have become punching bags for all the fobiles of education as well as being underpaid and over worked. We teach to the test, not to the child.

I thought buying a home and becoming a contributing member of the community would occur with age but I find myself so harried and hurried to keep afloat financially that I have neither the time nor energy to contribute to my community.

I *am* bitter, John and Hillary, that I've struggled for so many years and still worry about the price of gas or heating busting my budget and throwing me in to credit hades.

I'm bitter that health care is still not there for the most vulnerable, our elderly and our children. I'm bitter that politicans are still splitting hairs over providing this modicum of comfort while immersing themselves in something as banal as baseball.

I'm bitter that even after, what? three years? We STILL haven't put New Orleans back together, leaving the ravages of Katrina - mostly the separation of communities - on the back burner until we figure a way to give business first dibs on the property.

I'm bitter AND angry that the political divide has grown so wide that instead of an "us" that works together for compromise, there is a "we" vs "them" mentality that feels like one party has to win it all and anyone that opposes you is evil.

I'm bitter, I'm angry and I'm tired of snark. I'm sick to death of the machinations that take the words of an earnest man and twist them for political purposes. And SHAME on BOTH of you, because you yourself have been victims yet now proceed to inflict that same damage on someone else. And for what? A political victory? At what cost will you win? I'm most bitter that those in power are more concerned with rhetoric than helping our citizenry find solutions.

I AM bitter.
I AM angry and while I may not cling to a gun or embrace religion for that reason, the emotions are very real and very much in the fore front of the mind of this middle class american middle aged woman.

Don't talk down to us.
Don't think we don't see what's being done.
Address the issues. If you can't win on them, WE DON'T NEED YOU.


Signed
Ms Bitter