*Update Sam's Profile is up -- Saved a life yesterday, and now I need to save my carpet!!

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

Update#2: Sam's profile is up. If you know anyone in the Ottawa area please share: http://www.hopefulhearts.ca/adoptables/2013-139.htm

Update with Pictures.

Yesterday I went to a certain shelter to scoop up a sweet boy that was about to be sentenced to the gas chamber (yes that's right, :-(  the gas chamber). Not sure how anyone could deem this sweet special boy as unworthy of being put up for adoption but they say black dogs take too long to get adopted so they don't try.  Other than having black fur, which is apparently a grave crime, he is amazing. Sweet as pie, trained, obedient, cuddly, playful, friendly with my dogs and cat, ... perfect. And when he got home, he was STARVING.

I was told by the rescue I'm fostering him for that when the dogs are scheduled to be euthanized they don't bother feeding them anymore. (They also don't bother walking them it seems as he had peed and pooped in his cage and wasn't cleaned up. So he got a good bath when we got home.)

He ate up a whole bowl of food, and then took all of winston's and sophie's leftovers. I stopped him eventually but man he was so hungry I felt sorry for him. Even after eating some of the homemade chicken parmasean dog buscuits that Sophie and Winston made for him ;-) he was still famished. I tried to offer him Peanut Butter in a kong as a bedtime snack but he wasn't interested in PB. So I popped more of the homemade treats into the kong and put him in his crate. He was fine at first but started making a fuss halfway through the night. I caved and let him out. I kept him in my room instead. He went out in the yard before bed and again at 1am so I thought he should be good till morning.

I woke up this morning to the sound similar to the the last bits of ketchup being squeezed out of the bottle. 'Torrential' is the only way to describe what occurred in my bedroom this morning (and then subsequently all over my back yard).

After going through constant bouts of diarrhea with sophie for her first year or so I know I should have known better, but this guy needed all the love (and food) he could get and I couldn't say no to a little extra food and leaving him in a crate just seemed so mean after all he's been through.  Anyway, he is resting now and feeling much better, but I have a literal 'sh!t storm' to clean up in my bedroom. I am tempted to just brun my bedroom to the ground and cordon it off permenantly. I'm not really sure how I'm ever going to sleep in there again, and I may end up with PTSD when this is all done, but I will go out today and finally buy myself a steam cleaner. I don't think a simple spot bot is going to do as I have a lot of area to cover. I'm thinking of getting a more powerful upright carpet cleaner like the Hoover Power Scrub Delux Cleaner or something along those lines.

I know from previous discussions that the spotbot is well recommended, but does anyone have good bad experiences with upright carpet cleaners? ...anyone know where I can get a hazmat suit? ...

Otherwise, words of sympathy and encouragement are welcome to help me get through the clean up. This is not going to be a fun day (although, totally worth the experience of saving a life!)

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

You did such a good thing for this poor dog.....I admire you so much.  Have you thought about calling Stanley Steamer or one of those companies.  I used them a lot when I was going through the giardia episode and they did a great job....and it wasn't that expensive to just do one room.

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

Thank you Jane. I have thought about that but since this isn't the first mess, and won't be the last I figured I should invest. I ended up buying a simple spot bot as it was on sale for $50 off. It will take time to cover the whole area but I it is much better on my bank account. Wish me luck!

[Lori, Daphne, Lucy & Pippa]

May God Bless you greatly for what you have done for this precious baby!!!

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

Thank you Lori :)

[Lori, Quincy & Frankie]

Sherri- Santa definitely has you on his "NICE" list...thank your for rescuing this boy.  I hope the of your adventure rest is easier on all of you

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

ha ha, maybe santa will bring me new flooring ;-)

[Lori, Quincy & Frankie]

I will put in a good word!  you deserve it my friend!

[Camilla and Darwin]

Wow, sounds like you have your hands full! I have no advice on carpet cleaning but I wish I was there to help you clean up!

What a wonderful thing you did!

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

thanks Camilla, I appreciate the thought!

[Laurie, Wally & Charlotte]

Reading your story about saving this ebony boy's life warms my heart.  What a kind and generous thing to do.  Six months old -- he's just a baby, and you saved him.  

There's a poem by Neva Romaine that's called, Good Deeds.  Some of the stanzas describe your good deed perfectly. 

Good Deeds

Good deeds are so precious 
They are wonderful things 
All are filled with compassion 
Oh!...the happiness they bring!  

They can not be corrupted 
You can't buy them with cash 
They are gifts...they are blessings 
And they come in a flash!  

Good deeds have a voice 
and they whisper so clear 
Of great tragedies, deep poverty 
Things wrapped up in fear  

They tell of the darkness; 
deep sorrows - fierce pains 
They will whisper of wishes 
That have turned into shame  

Some tell of the hopeless 
Knowing not what to do 
They don't realize they are waiting 
For someone like you  

When desperate times...Oh! 
Destructions...they come! 
Good deeds with compassion 
Will bring hope to some  

A good deed can be all  
That it takes at times 
They will help others turn 
From the dark to sunshine!  

Do keep an ear open 
Keep an eye open too; 
They may tell of a good deed 
That is waiting for you  

How sweet are the feelings 
That comes from good deeds 
As you bless someone else 
By fulfilling their needs  

Good deeds are quite precious 
Very powerful things... 
They are filled with compassion 
See? The hope that they bring?

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

that is a lovely poem, and it definitely speaks to how I feel. Thanks for sharing!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Sherri, you are my heroine for taking the dog and loving him until the next step.  You are a wonderful, wonderful person.  Your mess is my worst nightmare.  I don't actually know how you can clean it thoroughly except to call a 'crime scene' clean up crew, rip out the carpet and start over.  Poor dog, poor you.  I replaced most of my carpet with tile.