Thirteen-year-old Rusty found himself at a shelter after his owner was put in a nursing home, and was already scheduled to be euthanized when Lisa Forgione, a volunteer at Montgomery County Animal Control, saw his picture in an email her shelter received.
Rusty was the only older dog featured in the email, and Lisa knew his chances were slim.
Lisa made the two-hour drive to see Rusty the next day, and when she arrived she knew she had to take him. “He looked utterly defeated, heartbroken and confused.
While their hands were already very full, as soon as they met Rusty, they knew they had room in their heart for one more. “It hasn’t been easy, but we are making it work! And we LOOOVE him,” Lisa said.
“He is SMART. He has a certain chair that he likes to sit in, and if one of us, or the dogs, are sitting there, he will no joke make a distraction,” Lisa said. “Once we get up, from whatever we heard him doing to check it out, he RUNS full speed to his chair and lays down before we can get back. He’s done it to me numerous times, my boyfriend quite a few, but poor Charlie seems to be the one who gets bamboozled the most.”
“With three senior dogs we like to think we have our own doggie nursing home,” Lisa said.
