12/10/2025
Welc💓me to you new beginning Chevy❣️
What would you say or do after receiving that email 😭
After a phone conversation, Cindy had agreed, they will stop using sedatives and I will come help! She agreed to meet me at the acreage (after her work) and fill me in on what they have learned.
After finding the location and letting myself in (with permission from the land owner) I slowing made my way up the long driveway to where the dog (s) were known to be. It didn’t take long before Chevy made his appearance, keeping a safe distance from me. Cindy will be here soon, we will wait for her as Chevy knew her. She would bring him food. And just has she had said, as soon as she drove in, he came running. He knew she’d have something for him, as she had done for many days prior.
Chevy, his littermate, both believed to be approximately 10-11 months young and a little 4 month old malinois puppy were left behind when squatters were evicted from Russell’s land! We learned that the wolfhounds were bred locally and after many attempts by the ‘breeder’, who obviously could not sell them, and attempts to give them away for free (ads posted local) handed them over to people who, has no place to call home, could barely look after themselves, let alone provide a proper life for these gentle giants!! (BYB=🤬)
(County bylaw attended and left behind a trap that was barely big enough for a smaller size lab. I requested they close that so that this big boy would not get entangled, hurt or injured until I could get there with a proper size trap)
Watching Chevy interact with Cindy, we decided she would try luring him to my large trap. Maybe?
Plan was to leave her with him, I will leave and give her time to work with the larger trap!
After pictures coming back from the camera set up, it was clear that, altho Cindy was trying her best, her heart desperate for this boy to go into the trap, she really wasn’t give him space to do so. 😞 Maybe he just wasn’t hungry enough to take that risk!
As we both drove out to leave him, giving home time and space, we drove about a km away to wait. Within 15 minutes, as the sun was setting to my horror, Chevy had come looking for Cindy, making his way down the middle of the road 😱. The dust from passing vehicles made it very difficult for him to be seen 😭. We have to lure him back onto the property 💔. Cindy drove ahead so that he would follow her, I will lag back to slow anyone who happens to drive by, until he’s back off the road!
But more so, the larger trap too, was NOT big enough for this boy 😳 of 11 months! We cannot risk it going off prematurely and him backing out. That would cause serious time delay in getting this boy into care sooner!
After passionately explaining to Cindy, it’s probably best for me to work with him, it was agreed that she would return (over 1.5 hrs away) if needed. But would be back immediately to transport once he was secured. ❤️
After she left, Russell came to meet me. It’s became very clear, these dogs were SAFE WITH HIM, ON HIS PROPERTY, it was the immediate cattle farmer neighbour who was a grave threat 😞 Although it’s understandable why, being a dick!!! and threatening the lives of these puppies, knowing full well efforts were being made to bring them all in safely, still was a real concern. We had to keep them , Chevy and his little friend, the malinois puppy, from going over the fence line
Russell was caring for the small girl. She would spend the nights with him, safe inside. His owner boy was okay with her. But Chevy and his brother were not so easily kept close.
We had an understanding now, that I would be the only one to feed him. Russell was feeding what little he had and could but he needed to go back to his home on the west coast sooner and needed all resolved before he left. He would also try his best to keep his dog and the puppy away from my trap area as them eating everything was making things a bit challenging to keep Chevy close.
Set up was going to have to wait until morning. In conversation with Cindy, she had agreed to assist in building the bigger trap with me, as I had hurt my back from the last recovery I had attend, just days before. Doreen had agreed to come help but was on a very tight schedule due to her own commitments. So many misunderstandings in miscommunications, I will just have to do it myself 😣
Along with daylight, came Russell with coffee 😍 Going to get my fix was at least 50kms round trip and it was a trip that would delay being ready for Chevy for his next meal. Very thankful❣️
As slow and painful as it was, the trap is erected! We are ready for our big boy, whenever he is!! and it’s not even noon 💪🏼🥵
It’s hot now and even tho Chevy came and went most of the day, he too, took cover from the sun. I know as soon as the sun starts to set, he will come check things out and if we are lucky, tonight, under this full summer moon, this boy will too, soon be safe ❤️
Russell has let his dog and the puppy loose, to enjoy the evening. With minimal food in the trap, they helped themselves as Chevy watched from a distance. This could be to our advantage. He can see they come and go freely inside the trap, maybe he will too 🤷🏼♀️
He wasn’t has ‘confident’ as his friends
(videos to follow) but after several attempts (with him I’M SURE, holding his breath 😂) hunger got the best of him, in he went ❤️
You are safe now big boy!! Soon Cindy will be here and you will join your brother and be together again 💕
THANK YOU Wolfhound Canada for stepping up for these two deserving gentle souls! Thank you for trusting in me to help Chevy when things didn’t go as planned for you ❤️
Thank you Doreen for being willing to make that drive to help build the trap. It was my own doing, sending Cindy home, not knowing if owner would be okay with me inviting someone else onto his land 😕I appreciate you!
And Russell, thank you for reaching out for help for these 3 puppies! For feeding them until help arrived for them. And for coffee, it was appreciated more than these words will convey!
PS. We also found someone to take the little german mal puppy. THANK YOU Lesley from the Dog Ranch!
