Posted on 09/24/2005 11:02:05 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
A chance meeting at an Independence animal shelter has left a relocated Hurricane Katrina victim without his longtime pet.
John Wyrick, who moved to the area from Mississippi following the hurricane, had taken his German Shepherd to the shelter approximately two weeks ago after learning he would not be able to keep it at a temporary residence.
He released his pet of 14 years to a stranger while searching for a place to live. After finding a home, he has learned he can't have his dog back.
Wyrick met with an unidentified woman visiting the shelter, said Amy Wells, shelter manager.
"He wanted the animal shelter to take the dog. They started talking," Wells said. "He decided he wanted to give the dog to her. I told them you cannot do the transfer on our property."
After that point the story becomes unclear. What is known is Independence resident Lynn Nevills eventually ended up with the dog. Wyrick could not be reached Friday.
City of Independence spokesperson Irene Baltrusaitis said the shelter believes Nevills is not the woman who spoke with Wyrick because she differs in body type and description. Nevertheless, at some point Nevills took possession of the dog. After Wyrick found a permanent residence, he approached Nevills about recovering his pet of 14 years.
Nevills reportedly has refused to return the dog. Nevills was at her home Friday afternoon but would not respond to requests for comment. The sound of a dog could be heard outside of her north Independence home.
Residents throughout the area have offered Nevills money or puppies as an incentive to return the dog to Wyrick after seeing the story on television.
Nevills is not a shelter volunteer. She has volunteered with the Independence Police Department's K-9 unit, according to Baltrusaitis.
Nevills and her husband have done grass and landscape work, as well as raised money for the department's K-9 program.
"We don't have volunteers who take care of dogs," Baltrusaitis said." The volunteers take care of other things."
To reach Andre Riley, e-mail andre.riley@examiner.net or call (816) 350-6362.
"Babe, it took two to tango. Two sweet cuties with the cooties tangoing. What a mental image ..."
And you're trying to pawn yourself off as an adult?
I agree with your comments about dogs. Sounds like you've got a great relationship with yours. I have an opinion that human lives are a lot more complete with a dog in the picture. Good luck with yours. I wouldn't blame you for wanting to breed her.
Unless you're Jim Rob, your response is meaningless.
If he tells me not to click on the thread that's his right.
Not yours.
"Unless you're Jim Rob, your response is meaningless."
Unless you want your stay here ot be short, I suggest you take the advice of people who have been here longer than you.
It would be the Smart choice.
"If he tells me not to click on the thread that's his right. Not yours."
Fine, carry on then.
IF you get the zot at a later date due to you ignoring good advice, that's your problem.
You're rather new here still, and obviously you still don't know how things work here.
Basic rule of thumb is don't click on a thread and then complain about it as nobody forced you to click on the thread.
At this point it would be hard for him to pawn himself off as a human being.
Well yes, granted.
*chuckle*
I can't ~believe~ you dignified *that* literary inanity with a response....LOL!
Well.. *cough*
I couldn't help it.
Next time the resident financial wizards start a thead on stocks and bonds and investment/market trends, I think I'll drop in and put forth a kajillion meaningless opinions even though I know utterly nothing about such things and the thread doesn't even remotely concern me "because it's a free country®".
[then, after they've [rightfully] flamed me into a smoldering heap of sobbing ashes, I'll complain about it both loudly and bitterly]......:)
LOL, I'll join you!
Sounds like a plan to me!
Of course, I am the fountain of bad ideas.
;-)
Thank you for taking in strays instead of 'that cute puppy in the window'. We currently have three pound puppies and I couldn't be happier with them. All were adults when we got them. The first ended up being older (much) than we thought she was. I trained her a a service dog and here just a short year later we are already having to think about retiring her. So last week I went to the shelter and adopted two more dogs. Both had been abandoned and I'm pretty sure Bell (St. Bernard/black lab mix) was abused. But they are both just the sweetest things .
Try giving her something of yours (like a shirt that you have worn recently) when you leave. Also sometimes a TV left on or a radio helps. If all else fails try to take her with you as much as you can, or your vet can prescribe a sedative if she is really frantic.
Siamese and Angora???
Nope, though it oughta be....:))
Oddly enough, she refused to answer to *any* of the names I'd pick out for her.
Gypsy?
No go.
Dixie?
No way.
Spooky?
Not a chance.
I went through an entire "1001 Names For Your Baby" book, and one huge tome on Irish mythology.
Finally, I got to the "P" section and going down the list eventually hit upon "Pooka" [Pwca, in Welsh] and her ears shot up and she leapt onto me.
So Pooka, aka Pookie, it is.
[somewhere, "Harvey" the giant invisible rabbit is laughing his arse off].....;))
Her little sister Phoebe pulled the same stunt.
No names stuck except Phoebe and the poor little thing went almost 3 months with no name at all.
[I felt like I was desperately trying to guess Rumplestiltskin's name, after a while]
Their half-brother and half-sister had no such bizarre egocentricities.
I picked Jack and Isobel before they even came here and they settled right in with that.
As I mentioned on another thread servoce dogs do not have to be 'certified' under federal or state laws.
That being said, the man should just go and sit outside her house and patiently wait to take the dog back. Can one steal what is rightfully theirs?!
Stop playing with the dog hater.
[you don't know where it's been].....:)
I know...sometimes you just have bat them around a bit...for their own good, of course....;D
Oh joy!
You chime in with a bunch of important sounding figures and facts and I'll just sit there and look incredibly stupid whilst pointing at pie charts!
What a team we'll make!...;))
Believe it or not, vets are now using low dose Melatonin for dog anxiety.
It really does work.
You can get 300mcg tabs at Wal-Mart really cheap.
Depending on the size/weight of the dog and the level of anxiety, 1 or 2 will help a lot.
They also have 1mg tabs but I always underdose my dogs because IH are very sensitive to drugs and chemicals.
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