today is animal rescue it's kind of an animal rescue with a little bit of a twist because we're not talking about the typical animal rescues such as tucker but i rescued her jessie we're talking about animals that have issues that the best way to say  correctly so so let me go ahead introduce again just a club sake and dana amato dana nice to meet you just imagine right part of the show you brought your two friends with you that you rescued from from jesse's angels for animals yes and that's just for animals in this area is an institution everybody knows i think it helps to have a vehicle that says enjoy one on it though but yes it does anyway its eyes what are the names or your dogs what jessie is holding hope and she calls her peggy peggy sue is six months and what's the back story on these dogs maybe you could share more in home hope the breeder called me hope had just been born and she said when this dog gets to be old enough you're getting her because she has a bad leg and i don't know what's wrong the leg and i don't want to deal with it correct because they would simply put their dog that was the case correct so i said ok fine so a friend was a well paying the two puppies that the mother dog had and she was one of them so my partner and i went up to see the dog and we took the dog into the back to have an x ray done because we didn't know but their legs still felt so funny that it was like it was missing the joint or something was wrong with it so the vet took an x ray and said well the hip is out we can't tell anything about the leg because she's too young and here's the x ray that's all we can tell you so chris adjusted the hip and holding on called me that night and she said the dog's walking better already so then we just went up like twice a week for a while and then it got to be once a week now it's every other week because they know has her and she started to walk immediately much better but she doesn't have a normal leg christine whitman and she's located in finleyville she lives in the park and we've been doing this for approximately twenty years and she really helps her a lot of dogs and the people carry on and they walk out and i can attest to the twenty years a lot of dogs have gone through just for one and chris and it's amazing the effort and the cause and the cost of using their own money they're not using any type of anybody else's funds that's right just he sells entertainment books she collects little brochure that comes with that said it is the nobel prize for volunteerism more that's even better so this is a great you didn't win but the nomination is the board that was the right of your selected by thousands and thousands of people across the country and there is a committee that actually narrows that down to six people who are the semifinalist and then from that they pick one person and that person goes on to the international but it's worth as one of the cities  pain she was but first we had to tell her who we are and and what our expectations were and you mentioned about the house checking out the house i thought what was funny is keeper on a leash and it just continued well she could get through this last well that back isn't going to work you can't let her out there so it was kind of funny we went through the same thing but it's for her best and it isn't you're not looking at those things where she sees goodness well we had hope and she is a fireball two years absolute energy pure energy bouncing everywhere and we just can keep up with her we could not throw the ball enough we can wear her out and even with a bad leg even with that i like yes and we don't even notice it anymore we really don't initially was a problem but at this time i had a go up on in my mind it was and when i say in my mind i was very concerned can we provide the best quality life for a little puppy that may have some issues and i was concerned about the hardwood floors just how life what life would look like could we really do that and it's only been two months and i think what a foolish thing that even saying because what it comes down to is real love hope and we want the best for her and her handicap if that's what it is and that's wonderful and there are i know you have dogs that have lost a leg and my mom's for them and it takes a special person actually in my opinion bladder he wasn't running around dog and it changed the dynamic with the other dogs that i had as well and at the time i had five when this happened to him and now after six years of being handicapped in my routine and his routine we know what to do and it's not really determined in that my time is limited because i have expressive bladder and can go to longer than four hours between expressions so if i leave somewhere  talk to jess and she'll say oh i have seven now i have ten now i have found a home for this one we've found a home for this one and sometimes you don't find that readily you christmas time you don't like to two finals for them for various reasons which right guster not but people tend after christmas not to go out and grab dogs either from the place and so you start stocking them up a little bit and we have one dog that we got adopted after a year and a half and he was an older dog  made pope's life possible incredible and have enriched our lives and mazing fantastic i thank you for for saying that that's wonderful we're going to go to commercial break please come back and treated me like everybody else because to do a good job because a mentor believed in my potential is why i am where i am today  what can you do like all young people with disabilities should grow of expecting to work and succeed for more information visit what can you do campaign dot org tools sure make our lives easy but a tool is only as useful as the hand that holds it when it comes to straightening crooked teeth and misaligned jaws orthodoxies have all the right tools in their tool box they're the most skilled 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you knew and my buddy had just passed away and i got a call from somebody they know who said their next door neighbor through the recession had lost his job and they had spent two years looking for work had to leave they were leaving actually the united states couldn't take their dog with them and would i be willing to adopt her she was ten or if not she was probably going to the humane society and at that time i wasn't sure if i was ready for one but i agreed you know over let me see if they get along and so little samantha who was like sixty pounds entered my life and she was have a lab and have beagle  the most wonderful dog the pavan is of that was her owner they were so attached to i mean did a wonderful job with her and i think the heartbreak was them actually leaving her with me but we did this over a couple weeks we walked our dogs on the trail together and it was just for me a wonderful experience she was just a lovely lovely dog she passed away interestingly i had started thinking in january i was going to go maybe get her a companion dog so at the washington county humane society i saw a picture of this little dog called barney who had some hind leg issues he was also a mix beagle basset and i went down to see him and i thought wow this would be wonderful like i had visions of being at work and two old dogs one on the couch one in the chair saying jay would she come home and feed us you know just kind of the companions and he was lovely i went down to see him it was a saturday and this part was kind of sad for me but i kind of understood the process so on sunday morning i said to her let's go and meet barney and see if you can and she got all excited probably didn't know what i said she jumped off the couch sat down vomited and had a stroke in that moment and then i went through this oh my gosh i upset or so much that i was bringing it and i just kind you go through all the stuff in your mind and the next day i actually had to let her go she did not really rally and just you know couldn't really get up and i was really thinking about that process and in my mind you know when you bring these older dogs in or any rescue dog and it's such a different animal they're so grateful you there's just this place where they know and i was almost getting the sense where she said to me don't close your heart you know you in it is it is kind of theriot you know she goes you brought me in and love me let's have somebody else come in and take this bed so at that time i called the humane society a couple days later and barney was already gone so i was kind of praying about it and thought well  a little bit and i'll know when the right dog comes so i'm petfinder there was this picture of this beautiful full bred yellow lab and i'm reading her story and her name was sandy and the story on sandy where she was eleven years old and had spent her entire life outdoors in uniontown in a pen rain snow sleet hail no people contact she was fed so she was in a macy aided what i found out from the rescue people they got a call on a jack russell terrier at the property who had been tied to the porch twenty first seven at night she was just stuck in a little crate and they went out to rescue her and they saw sandy it was her name of the time when i remember saidee out in this pen and they just said we just couldn't leave her there but in the ad it said she was housebroken spayed and crate trained and evidently twenty seven people called on the stock in like a week went by and i'm going why didn't somebody adopt this dog and i'm reading this again thinking how could she be housebroken crate trained and spayed if she had been outside all her life so i did call and they apologized and said you know it was a typo so she was not how it's going to pull that was a typo and nobody wanted to because they figure eleven how do you housebreak an eleven year old dog so i called the foster and said bring her down let's see and they brought her down same thing as you do i mean the house search was just unbelievable and miranda nks is the person who fostered her from uniontown and she isn't just a private pet advocacy group that goes out and rescues dogs and i'm to be honest this dog started peeing everywhere all over my house but to find out that she had a severe bladder infection so when they rescued her interpret to the  vet and the vet said it was it was so bad and he said she could have had this all her life and who knows so by the time she came to me she'd already been on two rounds of antibiotics i tried to wean her off after i did a doctor to try to get more natural because as you know w h kind of killing all of her bacteria so long story short with this dog in the first couple months that i had her we went from chronic bladder we finally got that cleared up the first month was really tough i mean  i don't think ice i don't think i ever got undressed because i was taking her out every two and a half hours around the clock we got that cleared up then she went into heat her uterus went septic had to have mer hysterectomy so the process went on and just recently her bladder issues about a month ago started getting a little bit worse and we did go in and alter sounder to find out that she now has she does have bladder cancer which was probably brought on by all the things she went through i can say now since her diagnosis and small amount of medication and some herbals and things we've been doing this dog hasn't had an accident the house in over three weeks her energy is now through the roof came in in the funniest thing she did when she came in the door and and my dog sitter who's a wonderful young girl who lives across the street i called her actually in that the first hour that the dog came to my house with the foster mom i called my chiropractor who's been doing all my dog adjustments dr jonas mary we took her down i wanted him to check he adjusted her i mean it was just a wonderful experience but she comes in the door and she sees a mirror and she sits in front of this mirror and she's looking in there and dog and she turns around couldn't figure out why this other dog wasn't following her she was an eleven year old dog with a mind like a two year old and beginning because she had she knew nothing she didn't know what a toy was she hadn't seen anything  this tree oh that's a squirrel where do we go but there's a rabbit know what's that so it was the needs experience to watch her come in and go ok what do you got for me now and we hold these dogs in these stories of what they went through and was a super dog absolutely my comment was i did have a long enough yeah it wasn't like a dog ten years or more out years and you're experiencing that's exactly but you know we have them for the time that they're meant to be there and that's you know it's that place where you know we feel we don't want to get hurt again and if we understand that love continues it's about what can we now give to the next one coming in and i and these two older dogs have taught me that you know that lesson you know is really really important but the adaptations you know she came she had never walked on a leash you know i looked at her and trying to sit and she would almost look at me and go i've been doing everything i wonder for eleven years and you want me to do except one at least since one thousand nine hundred ninety two and like teddy you know and i rescued him he was seven months and then he i had him for fourteen years but it was interesting when she was diagnosed with this cancer and i and there been people asking all about you know the dog since i've adopted her and everybody want to know what her prognosis was so i typed on there that her prognosis is the same as all of us she's going to live until she takes her less last breath and she's going to live well  the it's the quality it isn't even you learn over time it isn't the quantity i mean i've had dogs in the past when i was younger that i've held on too much too long it's the quality of their life  and for me the thought now of a dog bed either had been with the family all its life and saidee never had a life so for me your life starts the day you walk in the room or so she's having a life to think of a dog who's been a companion and then the family doesn't want them and it just breaks my heart to think of them if there's not a lot of jessie who will take a minute they there aren't a lot of there are some but not see just clasp or gray with you one hundred percent so absolutely the older dogs are worth it they knew that the stage of life that i was in i can't do puppies right now i don't have right now with my it wouldn't be fair to bring a puppy and i don't have the time to do the training but i'm a dog i can't imagine not being with a dog to bring the older ones in and give them a good life for the time that they have absolutely i tease my son you know don't put me in the cattle when i get all it's true we don't think about that you know and if you love them it's just sharing the lotto but thanks for the stories and that is her i'm getting used to the little one thank you so much for watching this talk i'll help the best will see you next i remember a healthy dog is a happy dog