Did You Hear About Our Adoption of A Yellow Lab?

After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, there were a lot of stranded pets in shelters. My wife and I had not had a dog in many years, not since the kids had grown and left home. But two of our grandchildren had moved in with us, two boys of 5 and 4. I have always believed boys need a dog.

So we decided to rescue one and bring him to a good home. We looked at a few shelters for just the right one to befriend two boys who also needed to be loved. We thought we wanted a small dog, perhaps a beagle or a border collie, because we the boys were little. We did not want them to be intimidated by a dog’s size.

But when we saw the Yellow Lab and how the boys were drawn to the big friendly retriever, we knew he had to come home with us. He was dubbed “Buccaneer”, and he has been exactly what we hoped, a loving friend of two little boys.

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