Thankful for YOU
Stafford Animal Shelter is thankful for all our great supporters, adopters and volunteers. Without you all – thousands of abandoned animals would still be out in the cold or at the Shelter waiting for homes. With your help, we have found homes for 246 cats, 174 dogs, 16 rabbits, 11 Guinea pigs, 16 exotic birds, 2 sugar gliders and a hedgehog in the past year. Lost pets returned to their owners: 223 dogs, 17 cats (aw – why don’t people come looking for their lost cats?!), 1 ferret and 3 birds (including two laying hens.) Latest interesting residents: chinchilla, pythons and chameleon. When we say “it’s a zoo around here” we mean it literally! Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
On September 30th a friend and I went into the shelter, we were initially there to just look and for me to see if the shelter knew of anyone having pit bull puppies. I wanted a pit bull so bad and I had done my research and had been around them. We went back and looked at all the dogs. the first one I saw was this red heeler male named Jordan, I was raised on a ranch & I am a barrel racer so a heeler or aussie would always be a dog I would look at, but I saw a bridle pit bull female and a blue pit bull female that I wanted to see but once they brought Jordan into me, I couldn’t leave him there, he had my heart already. Now me getting a dog at this point in my life wasn’t something I had just woke up that day and decided on, for me I had thought long and hard about it because months earlier my puppy died unexpectedly, when I moved to Texas my horse had to be put down and then when I was working in Oklahoma I lost pretty much everything in a F5 tornado, so a lot had happened, there was a lot of heartbreak especially for only being 19 and I needed to know I was emotionally and financially ready for a dog. Jordan aka Ziggy ( he’s named after Ziggy Marley because he always has a smile on his face & my Ziggy is always happy) has made my life so much better, he’s helped me heal, he’s there when I cry with this look in his eyes like everything is going to be ok, he’s not just a dog to me he’s my baby and him being a shelter dog I knew I was taking a dog who needed love to, he saved me and I saved him. Ziggy is the friendliest red heeler me or my friends and family have seen, he loves my niece Anna Marie and lets her crawl all over him, he is a cuddler and loves to sleep with me. I couldn’t have asked for a better dog. I believe God lead me to him that day and I wouldn’t give him up for nothing.
