*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!)

[Leslie, Yogi & Maci Bear]

There's a special place in heaven for people like you. Such a wonderful to do
for this pup, I can't wait for pictures!

[Olesya]

Sorry about the mess that you have to clean up, I can feel your pain, but after all you got a good friend and somebody who will be thankful to you for the rest of his dog life, for saving him from that shelter. 

[Leslie and Halas]

Thanks for saving him!  I can't wait to see some pics once you get the OK to post them.  Sorry about your carpet.  Maybe you'll get used to the smell.

[Nicky, Riley & Boris]

It does my heart good to hear that you saved a dogs life but how dreadful that he was starved before you rescued him. So sorry you have the carpet problem. I wish only good things for you and a real 'forever' home for this pup.

[Debbie & Gibbs]

I learned the hard way this lesson, if it's wet let it dry and then scrap it up and then shampoo.  If it's a wet mess you will end up making a bigger mess cause it just spreads all over.  Oreck makes a really good product that removed every bit of stain from off white berber. 

Thanks for rescuing the little guy, you made a difference! 

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

Sherri, thank you for saving this little guy! You are AWESOME!!!!!!! My go to "cleaning bible" is a well worn book called Talking Dirty with the Queen of Clean. To get rid of odor :(, best to use an enzyme product like Nature's Miracle or a mild solution of 1/3 cup vinegar to one quart of water. You can put the solution in a spray bottle to soak (all) the spots. How awful that they starved him. Hoping he finds a wonderful forever home, all thanks to you!!

[Marni and Hanna]

I agree - You are awesome !  Best of luck !

[Pat and Traveler]

Sherri, you are an angel!!  Thank you for saving this black baby.  Sounds like the carpet cleaning is coming along, so sorry you have to deal with this mess.  Just so glad you got to this sweet little dog in time!

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

Without further ado, introducing Sam.

*wishing I had cleaned up the shoe pile before the photo shoot, lol!

[F, Calla & Luca]

What a handsome guy! Great pictures Sherri. And who doesn't have some shoes lying about, and you've been busy.

[Sherri, Sophie, Winston, & Kitty]

thanks F!

[Lori, Daphne, Lucy & Pippa]

OMD! What a precious little baby! It would have been such a sin for him never to be given a chance! NOw, thanks to you, some lucky family will get to have a chance for that wonderful love that only comes from a furbaby. You are truly a wonderful person! How anyone could just let him starve is beyond me.