Last update/pictures added: August 12th, 2007
 

Angus is a gorgeous boy who had been through too much for his young age. He was given up on because his mom developed an "allergy" to him. He was passed on to a family that was not a good fit for him, and not the least bit compassionate. He ended up at the shelter because of irresponsible dog owners just passing him off to the next one. Along that journey he somehow ingested a sock, and had to undergo intensive surgery.

It was a good 2 months before he fully recovered from that surgery, but he would soon realize it was all worth the wait. He was then neutered and adopted out to a wonderful guy who is in the air force. Unfortunately for Angus, two months after being adopted to this guy, his job at the base changed and his hours were doubled. Being single, there was nobody at home to care for Angus and with his long hours, he was going to have to be kenneled for 12+ hours a day 5-6 days a week. He made the very hard, but right decision - and contacted us to re-home him.

Tracey and John had seen Angus months before when he was listed, but unfortunately were not moved into their new house. As luck would have it, they were all moved in and settled and a few days later, Angus was on a flight to Canada! The following is what they wrote of their experience with adopting sweet Angus.. aka Gussy!

John and I had wanted to adopt a dog to add to our family for quite some time.  Hudson, our chocolate lab, was such a joy to our lives that we always saw ourselves adopting another dog.  We both looked at LVLR’s website over and over to see all of the available labs and one day we saw Angus on the Lab Board and we both fell in love with his big eyes…at the time we knew that we could not have another dog because we were living in a place that would only allow one, but we both decided that he was exactly what we were looking for.  A happy, energetic, young yellow lab…he just sounded like he would “fit” so well.  We continued to follow his story and saw that he was adopted by a single man and even though that meant there was no hope for us we were very happy to see that he found a home.

A few months later we moved into a bigger home that would allow us to have more than one dog so we actively started looking for dog #2 and contacted Lisa to tell her that we were ready to add to our family.  After looking through petfinder and looking at our local shelter we didn’t really see a dog that jumped out at us, but we were still hoping that a young lab would come along.  All of a sudden we got an e-mail from Lisa saying that Angus might need another home due to his owner’s change in work schedule, and she asked if we would be interested!  I let out a huge squeal and felt as though fate was working for me, and that this was obviously meant to be…We were 100% sure that we wanted to add him to our family.

After a lot of e-mails and phone calls we were all set to fly him from Las Vegas to Canada but it turned out his crate size was too small for an international flight so we had to postpone his trip for a few more days.  It seemed as though we had already waited forever for Angus to join our family so a few more days were certainly not going to get in our way Angus arrived in Calgary after a very long flight with an overnight stay in Texas due to bad weather.  We introduced Hudson and Angus in the park and it was love at first sight.  They play and argue over toys and it has been like they were meant to be brothers all along.  Angus has become very attached to John and in turn John has become very attached to Angus.  He even sleeps on our bed and cuddles right in between the two of us!

We cannot believe that Angus has been to so many different homes, an animal shelter, and has been through extreme health issues and he is only 14 months old!  We have told him that he is in his forever home and from the kisses and smiles we get I think that he knows!

Angus in his foster home, happy boy!