Buddy the blind dog
Buddy and his companion, blind Jake, were scheduled for euthanasia in a western North Carolina shelter when a lady in Washington, D.C., Simone R., found out about them. Simone contacted the humane society and offered to sponsor the dogs if the shelter could place them with a reputable rescue group.
The shelter staff sent the two blind dogs to a rescue group in Nashville, Tennessee, who then – incredibly – turned them over to an animal hoarder.
It was only after Nashville's Metro Animal Control raided the hoarder's property and seized Buddy and Jake, along with 60 other animals, that Simone learned what happened to them.
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She then contacted us and we agreed to take them, but neither the director of Metro Animal Control nor other staff would respond to our calls and emails. The court case had been settled and the animals had become the property of Animal Control, so there was no legal reason they couldn't release the two dogs.
That's when we learned this facility was euthanizing 30 to 50 animals a day, six days a week – and we feared for Buddy and Jake's safety. Finally, Simone arranged for an attorney at a big Nashville law firm to contact the director of Animal Control … and Buddy and Jake were released to us that very day.
Simone placed them in a boarding kennel in Nashville until we could fly them to Montana. At long last, they arrived safely at the ranch!
Buddy now spends his time romping and playing with his blind girlfriend, Patti – that's her with Buddy in the photo above. He and Jake were never really great pals, so Buddy thinks he definitely got the best end of the deal, winding up with a beautiful girl like Patti as his new companion.
Posted November 2009.
