July 22: RaeLee saved the life of Christian Mason, 21, in Port Tampa, Fla.
Posted on 08/10/2009 2:20:34 PM PDT by JoeProBono
PORT TAMPA, Fla. — Yolanda Segovia heard a knock on her door one morning, just before 8 a.m. Her neighbor was on the porch, with a dog and a story. Stacey Savige had found the little dog in front of an elementary school. He wasn't very big, looked like some sort of terrier.
Burrs clung to his belly. His honey fur was caked in mud. He didn't have a collar. Stacey had taken him to the vet and he didn't have a chip, either. Now Stacey had to go to work. Could Yolanda keep him? Yolanda is 47. She's a divorced mom with two boys. In recent years she has survived breast cancer and cervical cancer, lost her dark hair and eyelashes to chemo. A hairdresser, she hasn't worked since 2006. "You can leave the dog here," Yolanda told Stacey. "But just for today."
They took photos of the dog and made a FOUND flier. Stacey ran off 4,000 color copies. She and Yolanda stuffed mailboxes, put ads on Craigslist. Yolanda took her boys to the dollar store and bought a collar, leash, ball and brown bed. Her 10-year-old, Azaiah, decided to call the dog RaeLee, pronounced "Riley." He said he had heard it on TV.
All afternoon, he walked the dog, threw the ball, laughed while the dog licked his face. "Don't fall in love with him," Yolanda kept warning. Her elder son, Christian, 21, watched through the window. Christian has Down syndrome and an array of other ailments. He has had heart surgery, a kidney transplant. He can't speak or bathe himself....
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July 22: RaeLee saved the life of Christian Mason, 21, in Port Tampa, Fla.
AH, you made me all teary. This story should be featured on Alan Thicke’s program, “Animal Miracles.”
And with Obamacare, he'd be long dead.
Goll durn something wrong with my monitor all fuzzy
The Lord at work.
A doubly beautiful story! all the humans were good people too!
OK, now I’m all verklempt.....
Mark Levin would love to hear this story!
Now you’ve gone and made me cry.
Sometimes angels have fur.
What is verklempt?
I need to know because I might be too.
Maybe these 2 families can share the dog-—why not since many 2 family households share kids. Might work just fine.
Amen!
It’s Yiddish (I think) from a Mike Myers skit on SNL—you know, the ladies who loved Barbara Streisand and said everything was “Like Buttah”. I think you’re likely verklempt too!
Dogs are wonderful, really compassionate animals; I’ve sen it twice in my own life. “Dog” is really God spelled backwards.
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