Well, it took a while, but finally that special person came along to adopt two very special little dogs — our dynamic duo, Katie and Spencer, both of whom are blind and deaf. In the photo above, their new Mom, Shelby M., is on the right holding Katie while Alayne holds Spencer.
We've had Katie and Spencer on PetFinder for adoption for almost a year, and the PetFinder stats would show about 200 "views" each week — far more than the others we had on PetFinder. Yet I think in all that time we had only three inquiries on them, each from people who didn't have fenced yards and didn't appear to understand why having a fenced yard for a blind and deaf dog would be, um, essential.
Most people just have a hard time understanding how a blind and deaf dog can have a good quality of life, and I think the double disability was really a show-stopper for almost all the people who saw Katie and Spencer on PetFinder.
But we never got discouraged, because we knew that eventually the "right someone" would want to adopt this lovely brother/sister pair. It turns out that Shelby, who is a librarian in Augusta, Maine, has a blind and deaf Pug — so she already knew that dogs with this twin disability can still have a wonderful quality of life.
Here's a photo of Spencer and Katie that I took this afternoon, not long before Shelby arrived to meet them for the first time:
Shelby, thank you so much for adopting these adorable little ones!
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The new Shelter Challenge started Monday, January 9 and ends at midnight on March 18. Grand prize in this round is $5,000, plus $1,000 for weekly winners and $1,000 for state winners. There are also other categories … please see the Shelter Challenge website for details.
*** Okay, this is important, folks: We are now LISTED UNDER OUR NEW NAME, ROLLING DOG FARM. State is still NH for New Hampshire. ***
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We won $1,000 as a weekly winner in the last contest, and thousands more in the previous contests. The Shelter Challenge really does bring in a lot of money for the animals here!
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