Woof woof let me tell you my story. I was running scared in the upper pasture at Mountain Lakes, I had been roaming around in the general vicinity for quite some time; at least a couple weeks, maybe longer. There were some nice people in the park that put out food in different areas for me hoping I’d find it before other animals here in the mountains did; they were trying to keep me alive and hoping that I would come up to them to be rescued. I’ve had a rough time on my own and I had recently had puppies but I’m not going to tell you about that. I do know that everybody is hoping that maybe someone found the puppies along the way somewhere and that they are being loved on at this time.
Some people would come up and spend time sitting and calling gently for me and offering food while catching glimpses of me running scared but with what I’d been through I was just too petrified to come up to any of them. One evening after everything in the resort had gone quiet I came across a kibble of food along a fence line where someone they call TJ had seen me go before, and then a few feet away I found another and then another, and then after following this trail of goodness I found a whole bowl of delicious food but after I finished it, I realized the way I had got to it was no longer a way out… I was in a cage and a bit scared but I did have my belly full. In the morning some nice people in a vehicle that said animal control took me somewhere where I slept for days and had plenty of food and freshwater. When thunder and lightning storms came over I wasn’t being drenched and I wasn’t running scared across the pasture back-and-forth like TJ had seen me one day and I think she was crying watching me from her golf cart. Things were different now; I was still a little apprehensive of what was going on around me but I wasn’t wondering how I was going to survive each day as they were taking great care of me and being gentle with me. After a few days this person named TJ showed up and they told her I was still a bit afraid. She came into my run and turned her back to me and sat on the floor of the kennel and just talked softly to me, just like she had when I was running scared. The rest of the pictures are of me officially meeting her for the first time.... It took a few times of me coming out of the doghouse a few feet and going back in but then I couldn’t hold out any longer, I had to see her up close. She held her hand out and let me come to her slowly. We looked into each other’s eyes and I think what came over us was what they call love. I couldn’t help but smile at her after that and then I went and gave her a kiss on the cheek…I heard her say, "you're a precious baby and you’re going to be OK," but she looked sad as she was leaving me. I wished she could of stayed as I was enjoying the loving she was giving me, but I guess she had to go.
A few days ago someone put me on a leash again and took me outside which they’d been doing sometimes, but to my surprise when we went outside, there was TJ on the ground at my level to greet me....I kissed her hand and sat on her foot for a while and then I tucked myself under her arm and leaned into her and it felt as if we were one. Then she got two dogs out of her vehicle that came to greet me and we liked each other and guess what happened next.....SHE SAID, "you have to stay a few more days and they’ll take you to be spayed," whatever that means, "and then you’re going to come live your life with us if you’d like..." I think I flashed her the biggest smile I’ve ever made and she said, "don’t worry you’ll be coming HOME SOON." Today I got spayed and she called to check on me to make sure I was doing OK, and I heard she’ll be here tomorrow to take me to my FOREVER HOME to be with My FOREVER FAMILY !!
Oh by the way, the animal shelter people called me Shadow for some reason and my new Mom said that fits perfectly, because when she first saw me I was running back and forth from the shadows under some trees to the shadows under some bushes....I was always trying to hide in the shadows, and coincidentally my new home is in a place called Mountain Shadows....
So that’s me SHADOW, TJ’s new baby girl and Boots' and Matties' new sister. ❤️ 
I look forward to meeting all the wonderful people that showed so much concern for my well being, thank you all so much!
PS I’ve been with my new family a couple of weeks now and I know I have a forever home and family!
CLEVELAND, GA
