Hello friends! Today I am going to tell the story of when I adopted my tripod dog Sparky.
My husband and I had just put my childhood cat down due to cancer. We wanted to wait for at least a few months after his death to get a dog. Almost exactly a month after putting my cat down we were shopping at a bookstore in Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City. This bookstore is located next to a Best Friends Animal Society, which is a shelter associated with the Humane Society. I told my husband that we could go take a peak in Best Friends to help start moving on.
Inside this tiny establishment there are about 8 different cages for dogs, and a room full of cats. My husband and I were immediately drawn to a cage that had the sweetest looking pit bull I had ever seen. He was tan and white, was one of the only dogs not barking, and had this look in his eyes that showd that he needed to be loved. Then we noticed he was missing his right front leg! We asked the workers there if could meet him. They took us into the room that is pictured above so that we could pet him and see how he was. We immediately fell in love. I mean, how could you not? Look at this face!
After only knowing this dog that they had named Tennessee for 10 minutes, we asked for the adoption papers.
This was the best, most spontaneous decision we had made as a couple. I think that we all fell in love with each other!
We signed the papers and took him to our car, which he jumped into, so excited to have his forever family!
He had his arm amputated in march of 2016 and we adopted him on july 24th 2016. Animal control was called on his previous family because he had a festering wound on his arm that they were not taking care of. He was chained in their backyard for the first 5 years of his life. He was severley neglected. He needed love, and Cody and I have all the love in the world to give him!
Now Sparky is so comfortable and spoiled and he will spend the rest of his life knowing that he is loved. 💗
