In seek of Family for Forrest

28/06/2020

Forrest snd Doug, two dogs who have been all lifers at the shelter are being put away in their crates indefinitely. Apparently bc Doug nipped a tech I’m not sure why but he’s probably a little more than upset ab being locked up his whole life. Without even knowing why or what happened I can already bet anything it’s bc the tech was trying to put Doug back in his crate. These two dogs have been there for years over 5, like 8ish. Can someone from a sanctuary or a family preferably please take in one or both of these dogs. I’m not sure why Forrest is being lumped in with what Doug did but it sounds unfair and inhumane if you ask me. Maybe some burnout going on w the employees.,, I’m not sure but please consider and act upon rescuing these two dogs who deserve it more than ever now to be given a chance. Will you?

08/04/2020

You're quarantined and cant stand it, the social distancing.. right? Well, this is Forrest who has been locked up and kept isolated from life and the world thinking hes the dog nobody wants bc hes been "living" in the f-ing shelter for the last 8 YEARS OF HIS LIFE. please go and take this guy home. He wouldnt be even begin to tell you in words how much a difference this would make to him.

10/03/2020

I know SOMEBODY has a soft spot for Forrest. Please tell me that some of you are thinking ab this poor sweet precious dog who has spent most of his life, 8 years to be exact, minus the two days he had so abruptly taken away by a shifty moody teenager, and you are making plans right now to come and meet this dog. No dog should spend their whole life in a shelter. Have you heard of the call? The call is just that. It's short for a calling. It originated as a calling in life to adopt foster children. If you can do that that's great and you should. Not everybody can adopt children. But most people can adopt animals. There are so many homeless perfectly good dogs and cats sitting in shelters with broken hearts. Forrest is one of them. 8 years. That's how old my youngest daughter is. Do you know just how long 8 years really is to just sit. In a small square? Made of concrete? How long can you sit still? What if you only got your lunch break to live outside of a cinderblock every single day for 1 year.... 2 years... 3.... 4.... 5.... 6..... 7.....8?! That's just wrong! Don't wait on the next person to do something ab it. If everybody has that mentality forrest will die in the shelter. Somebody be the change and be the one who actually does something. Everything you do that is good counts. I promise you it does. The world knows and karma knows and forrest will sure know it. It's his turn. And it's also your turn. He can't call you. He can't get to your house. But you can call his shelter. You can go and meet him. And you can take him home. You can save his life and put the meaning of life into his life. You may think oh who wants an old or already grown dog? Well he'd be great for people who don't want to have to create train a puppy. Hed be great for people who don't want a puppy jumping on them scratching their children or their elderly skin. He's won't chew up everything teething. He is already calmed down. He's already smart. No offense to puppies but puppies are alot of hard work. Forrest is just gonna chill. He still has some pep in his step as he will be ELATED to see the world and have some space to stretch out. He will be your best friend always excited to see you and I bet he won't even p*e p*e in the floor when he sees you cause his bladder wont be full bc he knows when he has to go. Lol. Unlike a puppy. Please give Forrest a chance and go and see him now. On your lunch break. Take him outside and ask him ab his life. Tell him ab yours. I bet he'd love to join you in it for the rest of his. Please come see him.

24/02/2020

Forrest says goodmorning and he'd love for you to come give him a visit and a chance to be blessed to possibly become the newest 4 legged family member, best friend you could ever have in a dog, which let's face it, dogs are more loyal than humans alot of the time. It would mean so very much to him if he could call an actual home, home, instead of this halfway house for dogs home. If he could watch out for you as dogs tend to do always on patrol in the yard making sure you're safe, if he could provide you belly laughs at the silly precious things they do, if he could have your hand and cheek to kiss, and your place to sunbathe when the sun comes out to play and warm him again, he would be the most grateful and lucky dog you could ever imagine. He just needs some interested and kind and loving selfless people to consider rescuing him from his accidental lifetime sentence from living in a shelter most of his whole life. Forrest was found as a stray in the forest hence the name, Forrest. Why he was there or what happened to his owner we cant be sure. He was probably the unlucky pet of some heartless people who took him to the woods to either abandon him or worse, shoot him, and maybe he ran away in fear for his life. Maybe he was loved and unfortunately got separated as a young boy chasing a squirrel? I cant say for sure. The poor boy was even adopted once for 2 days until the teenage boy changed his mind ab wanting a dog and Forrest was made a shelter dog yet again when this unkind flip decision was made. They didnt say he did anything wrong. Nope. Just the shifty teen simply changed his mind. Maybe he just wanted a dog to impress a girl who broke up w the boy and he no longer wanted a dog after all. Idk but the decision knowing his past was a cruel one. But atleast they brought him back to the shelter and didnt abandon in the woods although ultimately they did abandon him they let him down they didnt fulfill their commitment to him. How heartbroken he must have been. Probably scared and shaking, trembling wondering what did he do wrong. Its ashame we cant explain to them or let them actually know what happened and why. Poor guy. Such a bleak existence. Hes been in the shelter long enough. Hes an old dog but expect he may also be like a new dog having to learn things you would expect an old dog to know. It may take patience bc you may be confused and mistaken making judgements on him based just on his looks of being grown. How grown could you act had you been caged as a toddler? Could you exit and function in the world as an adult if youd only had a short time a long time ago to actually learn thru experiencing the world as a young one? When considering him take reality into your thinking. He may need someone to be able to see him for what he is or may be, a living human doggy who hasn't gotten to live how he should have. While his body may show you hes grown his knowledge may be that of a young dog who is still very new to the outside real world. In the shelter hes a professional he knows that well. But the shelter should not be the only life this boy gets to be great at. He was made to live and be a dog and live a dogs life. And he needs a special tender hearted person who can be empathetic to what hes experienced and a person with a huge heart that is saddened by imagining the life this guy has lived because its been so limited in the richness the real world has to offer. This boy is loved within the shelter. And though the shelter girls and guys adore this boy and will miss his presence they can only offer him so much. They want more for him. He deserves it. All animals do. A chance to live a good long happy life full of love and get to be who they are and experience the elements just like we get to. How would your life and heart and mind change if one day you got picked up following likely a tragic event and placed inside for 8 years with not much contact to any life like the one you led before. What if the sun rarely warmed your skin and the light you became accustomed to only came from a bulb and was man made? Please think ab ask ab learn ab and think ab bring forrest into your home and sharing it as well as your life and our world with this just as deserving as us dog. He wants you to know there are others like him too with very similar stories. There is another boy dog in this very shelter who has lived I say lived very loosely bc I dont consider living in a shelter really living, for 7 years compared to his 8. I dont know how much time the shelter dogs even get to play together or if they get to or not but it's worth asking shelby Jones ab if they get along and would they make a good pair bc sometimes Its a scary thing for animals who dont know for sure what is going to happen to them and going a buddy always makes me feel more comfortable and less afraid. Plus adopting two gives them constant companionship while you are away at work or wherever. Of course getting the right pair is a must for saving two at once. I will post pics of his shelter mate. Dogs arent the only ones in this situation. There are cats as well who have had the same grim plight. Please dont wait any or much longer. They've waited so very long already. More than half of their lives. Thru no fault of their own. They have so much love to give if someone would just step outside of themselves for the rest of the lives lect these animals have left and decide that's not right and that makes me sad I want to help I want to be the one who makes a world of difference to an animal and I have all that it takes to change the whole existence for this innocent animal and I'm going to today or but this weekend grant this angel a real life full of love and happiness bc I'd hope someone would do the same for me if I were them. That's all it takes. Although Since these babies have experienced heartbreak we do remind you that animal ownership is a big responsibility. Please look into what it takes to responsibly own and care for an animal. It is not something to just jump into without thinking it thru and we ask this of you bc we dont want our shelter pets hearts broken anymore. They have experienced enough sadness in their lives and we cant bare to see them struggle thru the heartbreak they go thru when let down again by a human and have to feel unloved again. Animals are resilient but it hurts my soul to see theirs hurt so while we are glad to atleast receive our animals back verses worrying what has become of them if the person changes their mind, it's just too unfair and it literally takes a piece of sonething that should never be broken or damaged and they are innocent and good and their love is so pure I hate to see them ache when I cant explain to them it wasn't them so seriously give this thought and after that if you still are a good qualified full of love and are responsible and arent going into this loosely or lightly wed be so honored if someone worthy of our sweet precious loves would bless them with a real life and love them for the rest of their lives.

23/02/2020

23/02/2020

Forrest is located in a shelter that he has lived in for a long 8 years which is located in Pennsylvania

23/02/2020

This sweet poor baby boy who is actually not a baby anymore, has a tortured life. Well, it wasnt always that way. I'm not sure or his beginning, but I know Forrest, that's his name... has been a resident of the shelter for 8 years. You heard me right, right L O N G years. Dogs his size live ... maybe.... 12 years...? No offense to shelters I am grateful that they house him, feed him, give him company in between tending to other dogs. I always wondered why if shelters have a fenced in yard why cant the dogs be in the yard. I guess it's bc they cant be loose together bc they arent always tended. So instead this beautiful dog has had his life stunted living in a square made or cinderblocks. Where its cold to the touch. Where every noise is echoed back to you. Sunlight is limited. Outside time is limited. Space is limited. Time, love... precious ways that time should be spent, making memories of a lifetime that are supposed to fill up your life, for him, have been spent day in and day out just waiting. Hoping. As his life passes him by. And then one day, he got a home, a family, love, freedom, LIFE.... so he thought.... but two days later, bc of nothing he did at all, he was brought back to the shelter bc the son of the woman who got the dog announced he "didnt want a dog anymore " so selfishly in my opinion. I just think it's pitiful. I feel so sad for this boy. I think hes been let down to say the least. I think hes had an empty life and I find it grotesquely unfair. I dont think he deserves to have his life wasted as he ages not months but years and years too long living alone. More than half of his life hes sat and wasted, for some reason or another. Maybe there were puppies or kittens when people came looking. Maybe he had been passed over so many times he lost the light in his eyes and quit even being hopeful bc it just hurt that much more when he wasnt picked again and again. Thst rejection has to hurt. A pain so deep even in a dog he couldn't hide it. Or maybe he was afraid bc of all the barking. Who knows really without being there to witness all of the happenings or non happenings of his life. Forrest needs seriously interested families who understand the importance of committnent and patience if need be. He needs people to give him a little time to come and meet him or find out ab him first and come knowing they will take him home and make it his home. He needs a happy full last few years. He will love w all his loyal and grateful heart. Hes best friend material. The ball is in our court, us as humans. It's time for some one to say I wont let him waste another day, I'm gonna go get him amd I'm gonna show him what a good time is. And I wont take it away from him. I'm gonna give just to give and in that selfless giving I will be open to receive the beauty of watching this old dog experience his firsts as he should have long ago. There is another dog at the same shelter who's gone thru the same thing except hes never gotten 2 days out and minus one year and he may be a good bonded pair to adopt as well so he can experience this w a friend. If interested ask if they are buddies but if not just home one. And tell your friends of these dogs stories. The more people know the more these dogs have a chance. Please come take forrest home today.