There were 8 of them – the puppies of the skinny, toothless, skin-diseased, but very devoted mom Granny Pitty (formerly known as Momma Pitty). Eight fat little mice and a walking skeleton that would not stop feeding, washing and warming them. Such was their family 3 years ago.
As 8 drops of water Pitty’s babies grew up in the shelter – shiny, good-looking yellow dogs with a royal profile. Almost all of them found love and happiness in the very beginning of their lives. We remained with the now healthy, but still unwanted Granny Pitty and her only shy baby – the quiet, worried Ruby.
She must know something more than the other dogs do – without ever coming across a bad human in her life she knew up-start she couldn’t trust us. The very stubborn volunteers needed 2 years of work to be able to say that the dog has become somewhat social, but just as far as that. Ruby agreed to trust her closest friends, but how to be noticed by new people – by prospective adopters? How would anyone want her when in the shelter racket she becomes completely transparent and invisible, when she is one who doesn’t want to be seen?
To tell you straight – there is no way. In the three years that Ruby was offered to different people and partner organizations, with so many people-friendly animals looking for homes, she couldn’t catch anyone’s attention. Three years is a long time to be unwanted. Sooner or later you will learn that you are the unwanted homeless dog you always felt you were. Ruby never had much confidence, and in time she decided to let go of it completely.
Bogrov was shut down, we moved to the Farm with 250 dogs. Among them – all sorts of different souls, but all of them – dogs that have long remained in our care. It so happened that among the 500 dogs at Bogrov, there were about 200 dogs who always changed, came and went away to start better lives. The rest were somehow subscribed to our care permanently, a life that was supposed to be temporary became a life sentence. There is no happiness in a cage – whatever we or the hard-working volunteers might do – happiness looks, tastes and feels differently – there is no lying to the dogs. This is not a real home. And the unwanted dogs like Ruby know it just as well as the wanted ones.
We are happy that we can tell you more than good news about Ruby – our girl is now making her first steps to happiness in a wonderful home far from here. Thanks to our amazing friends at Blind Dog Rescue UK, Ruby is now in her new home in Britain with Mo Neil and her new brother – Stormy!
Although it is hard for her, only a week in her new environment Ruby has already shown a great improvement! Taking small steps in the right direction – the scared, unsure Ruby is slowly becoming the curious, loving young lady who could not show her quality bound by a shelter existence. Taking long walks in the green of her new Farm, with the help of the calm presence of her new brother Stormy, with every day passed that the calmness and kindness of her new owners comfort her broken heart – Ruby is slowly beginning to feel that joy she was missing out on: life is great and nothing is scary when you are with your people!
Ruby and Mo have a long way to go until she too becomes a happy, calm creature. But the change has already started; she only needs to stay on her path. And every next step she makes will be more confident than the latter.
Congratulations, Ruby!
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