A Little Jasmine at Golden Pines

You know that an empty dog bed does not last long around our house.  Today we welcome a sweet little girl Golden named Jasmine, who is 12 years old.  Her previous owner put her on 'Craigs List' to be given away.  Many of you may be aware that dogs that are given away in this manner are many times used for training dogs to fight, or sold to research. Thankfully there are people in rescue who watch for these ads and try to prevent this from happening and so someone contacted Jasmine's owner.  Even though she was a bit wary of giving her to a rescue, she finally agreed.  

The owner told me to come this morning around 9 o'clock.  I did just that, and ended up waking them. Its been a long time since I dealt with an owner first hand and I've forgotten just how cut and dry these things can be.  They came to the door with Jasmine in hand, signed the paperwork, gave me practically nothing for her, and I was gone in less than 5 minutes.  I always wonder how you can have a dog for so many years and give them up so quickly and easily and without a single item that belongs to them that you'd like them to have in their new home.  But I suppose that I should have remembered to consider their reasons for giving Jasmine up, which ranged from the owner having a skin problem, to not being to take her with them to their new apartment.

Regardless of the reason, Jasmine is a very sweet, small and petite Golden, weighing less than 50 pounds.  She's had several litters of puppies, and I think has problems seeing outside because she has stumbled on our steps each time she has been out.  Meeting our gang was uneventful.  Todd was very attentive to Jasmine, no doubt hoping he had another playmate--I think our cat CC probably hoped for the same thing.

Looks like CC will just have to keep hoping..

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