While they’re still learning one another, it’s going well, and the couple knows they also have the community in their corner, cheering them on. She stressed that the public can help by supporting their local, trusted rescue.Īnd of course, so many animals need a foster or forever home.Īfter only days in his new spot, Bendu already looked in his element, lounging at his family’s feet, sometimes getting up to give them kisses. “It’s awful because that's not how we're wired,” she said gravely. While older, special-needs dogs often take longer to find homes than puppies and kittens, Bendu's captivating story had many locals applying to be his new family. Stina Sieg Bendu was found running loose in Palisade on Thanksgiving Day.
DOGS WITH DROPPY FACES FULL
But McNees knows many local shelters are routinely too full to accept new animals. Grand Rivers adopts out up to 300 dogs a year. With their help, the county has been able to stop euthanizing animals due to space.
Her group has worked with Mesa County Animal Services since 2005, often with hard-luck cases like Bendu. “And as the price of all of our commodities went up, the adoptions went down.” “And there's not enough adopters,” she said. There’s a growing number of dogs and cats that are found lost or stray, she explained. She sees a national crisis “all the way down to a local crisis.” But according to Nan McNees, president of Grand Rivers Humane Society, a storybook ending can be hard to find. It’s what people in the animal rescue world always hope for. “In that moment, we're like, ‘Yes, this is happening. She gave Chu veto power, but his fears went right out the window. “And he leaned into us and was just so sweet.” “Like, he just kind of decided, ‘Oh, these are my people,’” she said. “And one of the first things he did was he just sat right on my lap,” Chu said.
What would happen if they had to go out of town?īut he told his partner to try to get a meet-and-greet with Bendu anyway. How would their two cats react to a dog, he wondered. As kids, he and his brothers had some fish - until they forgot to feed them. She calls it an instant “heart connection.” But she knew she wasn’t making this decision alone. Instead, she and her partner find themselves enjoying little moments with the dog even more. Sincevich was originally worried Bendu's prognosis would require her to harden her heart in preparation of his passing. Stina Sieg/CPR News Sophia Sincevich shakes Bendu's paw before giving him a treat.
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