Hi Everyone!

My new mom read me the posts that you all wrote when she was here asking questions about living with a Tripawd.  I want to tell you "Thanks A Lot" for encouraging her and telling her how cool us Tripawds are.  Mom said I should come on here and tell you my story.  I went over to her house on Saturday for my 1st home visit and so that my awesome foster mom Vicki could check the place out and make sure that mom was a good person and could take care of me.  Vicki and I liked it so much that I got to stay!  I have my very own home now with sisters that I really like a lot, my own goats to herd, some big ole horses that sniff me and lick me and even some chickens to chase!  Oh, and today, I found out there are bunnies to chase, too!  It's really fun here!

I was a little sad when Vicki went to take me out of the car when we arrived at mom's house because I figured it meant she was going to leave me and I'd already been left a few times before.  You see, I started out in a place called Klamath Falls in Oregon. I was picked up and put in a car when I was lost and broken by some nice people.  I was taken to this really super nice place (that smelled kind of funny) where a really neat man everyone calls Dr. Wilson was.  The people who took me there felt sorry for me and asked Dr. Wilson to make me sleep (I think like sleep forever!).  Dr. Wilson didn't think making me sleep forever was a good idea so he made me sleep a little while and took off my broken leg!  I didn't really care because it was hurting really bad and I'd had that old thing draggin along for a couple of months.  I don't remember how it got broken but once it got messed up, it never worked again so I didn't need it anymore.

Anyway, Dr. Wilson called this super nice lady called Shauna and asked her if she would take me to her house to get better and she said yes!  Shauna gets help from some SUPER nice people at Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue who help pay for the medical supplies and help for furkids like me who are in trouble.

Shauna was so nice to me.  She slept on the kitchen floor with me when I was hurting really bad.  She helped me get used to my broken part being gone and made me feel really happy because she fed me good food and made my owies feel better.  She gave me a soft bed and made me feel so special.

Once I was getting around better, Shauna called a nice man called a transporter (I think his name is Bob) who drove all the way down from a place called Seattle in Washington and drove me to another nice lady's house.  Her name is Vicki and she's one of my very best friends.  Vicki's house has lots of other dogs just like me!  Vicki is super cool because she lets her dogs go herd sheep and do other really neat jobs that us Border Collies make look really easy but they really are super hard!  Sheep are kind of silly, you know, so it's harder than it looks to make them go places they don't want to go!  She also let me play in her hose.  I REALLY like to play in the hose!

So, then Vicki put pictures of me up at a thing called a webpage.  Mom said here is the address: http://www.pnwb.....elterId=WA

Mom had a really super good best buddy named Gadget.  He got sick with something called cancer and he died.  Mom was really sad but she said Gadget told her that he was going to send her another buddy that needed help.  Mom said she didn't understant it very well but she even had a vision in her mind of the buddy that Gadget was going to send - Gadget showed her a vision of ME, 3 legs and all!  Can you believe it?  Mom says it sounds like she's crazy but when she saw me, she knew I I was the one!  She wrote to the rescue people and Vicki and that's how I got my new beginning!

Here's me with my new sisters:

and this is what I do when Mom watches TV

Thanks for reading my story!

Woof!

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