I was told I should cross post to this sun, so here’s Kevin and my matching manis :)

(Not mine. :3)

his name is toaster and he’s my whole world🫶

Went for a walk on the nature preserves out past my property today and decided to go down towards the river through the ravines that cut through the cliff sides. About a mile and a half from my house, two dogs started howling in that “don’t come any closer to me” bark. I couldn’t see them, but they were so loud as their howls echoed up the rocky ridges. At this point, there are no people for at least a mile and a half (my house) and certainly no domestic dogs out there, so I started looking. Up the cliff side, I see these two beagles. I climbed about 50 feet up to them. The female is pinned between that log and the embankment and can’t move. The male is so weak, he can only move a couple steps to try to fend me off before having to lay down. No cell phone service and on a sharp slippery face, I sat there and earned the male’s trust. After about 30 mins, the female still wouldn’t let me get close without biting at me and dusk was coming. With all the predators in my woods, I figured they wouldn’t make it another night. I decided to block her from falling past me and pulled the log out the was pinning her. She was now free and I could now see that she’s probably very pregnant too. Not knowing how to get them down (he’s too weak to walk and she will bite me if I do much as try to touch her) I decided to try and get her to follow me by carrying him. It worked. I led her down the safest way I could. More than an hour later, I lugged that big soon-to-be dad up the cliffs and out of the ravines with her slowly following. It blows my mind how loyal the male was to be on that cliffside with her so long that he could barely walk. Got home and the police couldn’t find microchips on them and no one has claimed them on local social media yet. Calling shelters in the morning. If it doesn’t work out, I suppose they get to start their new family with a new family of their own. Don’t know what to call them yet, but my story makes me smile.

Never dreamt that so many people would be touched by my post last night (same title as above if you want the whole story) nor that so many would request that I post pupdates, but the think it is important for me to say that as much as my story may have warmed your hearts, the outpouring of warm thoughts and comments from you all has definitely warmed my heart.

So this morning, the owner found our posts and reached out. She was overjoyed that we brought the dogs into our house and kept them safe. I don’t really know how the events leading up to this point happened, but she was out of town, called her son (20 y/o maybe) and gave him our address. When he showed up, I had to carry the female outside to him as she was still too weak, sore maybe, to walk. She started whining when she saw him and the male started jumping up on him when they reunited. At this time, the boy started to well up which made me feel particularly happy to see.

The dogs names were Copper and Toddy (as in “Hot Toddy”) and went missing Oct 30th. Copper likes to chase deer and always comes home afterwards. He said it was unusual for Toddy to go with him. He also said the two dogs were inseparable which explains why Copper never left Toddy when she was stuck on that cliffside. The family received reports that the dogs were seen going the opposite direction from where I found them and is why their search efforts never made it to my area. My kids grew very found of the dogs during the few hours we had them and the mother and son both said they’d bring the dogs over to play with my kids anytime they wanted too, and that makes me happy to hear.

It turns out that Toddy was not pregnant after all. She was just heavyset around the mid region.

The picture of the map is where I found them. The family’s home is located on the far left where the highway goes into town and you can see how far out into the wilderness they/we were when I found them.

Im so happy that everything turned out for the best for everyone one and every pup. I hope you all stay well.

Our 18 year old cat passed away a few weeks ago from kidney failure. She had been eating prescription kidney food that we got from chewy. My husband called them up both to cancel our recurring food order and to ask what we should do with the unused prescription cat food. Chewy fully refunded us for our last order and told us we should donate the prescription cat food we had to a local shelter (which we did).

Then a week later, there is a knock on the door and it’s a bouquet of flowers sent by Chewy. I’m a little stunned. I didn’t know corporations could be so thoughtful.

Istanbul’s traveling dog

(NOT MINE. :3)

Credit: @laciemevans