The photo you saw on the previous page was taken in an attempt to find her owner.
On the left you see a very muddy Sugar on April 7, 2002
Before I tell her story, I must tell you some odd
happenings beforehand. During the first weeks of December I kept telling co-workers, that I had a feeling of a dog in my life. They laughed, with my 4 at home it was no wonder that I saw a dog in my life at any time. Then a week or so later, I kept telling them that I had a feeling it might snow at Christmas, because I kept thinking of the color white. They know I am odd, so they thought I was trying to pretend that I knew it would snow around Christmas. So here I was, with
visions of white and a dog for Christmas......
Now to Sugar's and our story:
Sugar walked into our garage the day before Christmas Eve 2001... My son was washing the car, and there she was. He called to her, and she came. So he came running in the house saying under his breath "Mom, you had better come here NOW!" I thought the car blew up silently, or something horrible had happened... I go out in the garage holding my breath, ready for disaster, and there stands this white beauty with white porcelain eyes with a blended blue rim around the pupil, wagging her tail at me.
She's followed me around ever since, every minute I am home, unless she plays with the others.
I thought about calling her China (China porcelain), but my husband thought that was really dumb, because Huskies are from Siberia, not from China... [smile]. So we stayed with Sugar, her original name.
Merry Christmas to us - again. I think Zeus has a hand in the appearance of these dogs. I had him put to sleep on December 26, 1998, and the past two years we had dogs enter our lives unexpectedly right at Christmas.... May you Rest In Peace, Zeus, still my most beloved shadow and companion. Thank you!
And they lived happily ever after.... :)
Sugar had a microchip tag on her collar, which seems to have been implanted by her first owners. I called the 1-800 number (AKC Pet Companion Finder). They told me her name was Sugar, called the registered owners, left a message, no response.
Then I called the vet on the rabies tag, which is also our Humane Society's 2nd Change no-kill shelter. According to their records, her name was Ghost. They had another owner listed, whom they called daily for a week. No response.
I called the local animal control, told them the circumstances, and gave them the rabies tag number. They offered to send an officer out to the owner's home and contact them in person, or leave a note. No answer.
Two days ago, I drove by their house (10 miles from where I live), and saw that they must not have been very educated about Siberian Huskies and their love for running. The yard has a 4 ft chain link fence that is so high off the ground a dachshund could crawl under it. Not a safe place for a husky. Also, nobody seemed to live there, because the mailbox was overflowing, there was trash in the yard and it generally looked abandoned.
After 1 month my husband and I decided that nobody wanted Sugar, and we had come to really like her, so we are going to keep her. Which now makes us an 8 people zoo: 3 Humans and 5 Dogs.
Sugar does not know how to play at all, she was not familiar with belly rubs. From the 2nd Chance shelter I learned that she was brought there in October 2001 by a lady, who said that Sugar had been tied to a stake in her neighbor's front yard for the time they had her. I also learned from them, that she has a history with local pounds (she was a runner) and that each time it took weeks for her second owners to pick her up.... what a life.
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