Just got back from Jamaica, and brought home the coolest souvenir.
 

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We rescued a shelter dog!! Shelter dogs on the island are usually in for a helluva hard time. We lost a dog we had for over 16 years about a month and a half ago. Was absolutely brutal! We decided a few weeks ago we would do our best to rescue a dog on our trip. My wife had been in touch with the Montego Bay Animal Shelter. She had a small litter she recently rescued from Kingston. We saw this guys picture, and fell in love. Wasn’t a completely easy process, but my wife put in a lot of work on our end to get things in order.

We arrived last Tuesday, and the Sabrina brought this guy buy our resort on Wednesday on her way back to Kingston to get his vaccinations. We were pretty tipsy and had to wait a bit due to lots of traffic between MoBay and Ocho Rios, but when she got there we knew he was the one. We partied like crazy for the rest of our trip, and she met us at the airport with our new puppy when we were scheduled to fly home.

I have to say the lady that runs that shelter is a real life angel. She is doing the lords work on that island. The day she dropped our dog to us at the MoBay airport, she had to then travel to Kingston to pick her sister up from the airport. Right after she picked her sister up, she saw a dog near the airport in very bad shape. But she has a tiny car, and it was too full with her sisters stuff, as well as the dog she travels with. She left some food for the dog and vowed to come back as soon as she dropped her sister off. She went home, and dropped her off, then went right back out for the dog. On the way back, around midnight she saw a Dane that was hit and badly injured on the side of the road. It was with a German Shepherd, but the Shepherd took off when they pulled up. She flagged a motorist down and they helped her load the Dane into her car so she could take it to the nearest animal hospital she worked with. She put out a bulletin about the Shepherd because she wants to reunite the dogs. She then STILL went back out to the airport and drove around for an hour before she found that other dog. It was in bad shape. Missing one of its eyes, and part of one of its back legs. I saw a picture of that dog once she got it back to her shelter, and it’s absolutely heartbreaking, but also encouraging because despite all the shit that dog has been through, it still looked like it was smiling because she found it and was feeding/sheltering it.

I don’t know how much that lady makes, but it’s not nearly enough for what she does. Our cost to rescue the dog was $500. $250 went to her/the shelter, and the remaining cost was for vaccinations, and the paperwork you need from the country to take the dog from there. Think we paid $125 to Jet Blue to get him on the plane. He didn’t do too bad on the plane ride home. Cried as we were boarding, and I was praying to god he would sleep on the plane, which he did.

My oldest daughter was watching our dog Tarzan the crazy man, who is our 3 year old Dane. When we got home, my daughter and her friend brought Tarzan home. I went out to her car, loved him up, walked him around the front yard, then took him inside. He could obviously smell the new dog all over me, so he knew something was up. The girls were holding the puppy, and I had Tarzan’s leash. Tarzan is a very gentle sweet dog btw, he’s never been aggressive towards any other dog. Tarzan leans in to sniff the puppy and gets immediately bit on the nose, kinda hard cuz it bled for a little bit. I felt so bad for him. So he was obviously very apprehensive of the pup after that. They eventually got around to checking each other out. And are now getting along good. They’ve been playing, which is hilarious given their extreme size differences. The puppy is about the size of Tarzan’s head.

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aww, sweetie!

Did you stop by and see that Chiefs Planet member that often vacations in Belize ?

Cool story. Love the name.

I’ll be donating to her shelter as often as possible in the future.

The shelters IG if anyone is interested. https://instagram.com/montegobayanim...RlODBiNWFlZA==

They also make it so someone can bring an animal home to you on their return trip.

right on!!

Aww. I was hoping you bought a steel drum.


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One of our morning news stations has segment called "stray of the day" where they showcase am animal from our animal shelter to try to get them adopted.

Today was a dog that has been there for a year. How sad.

Cool! You should see what you can get in Belize! That shit will stay with you a long time!

That stuff sucks. My daughter rescued a dog this weekend, and she said they have a section for older dogs. And it’s so sad. Shelter animals in JA live a very rough life. The lady who we got Chaos from said she can only run her ac about 6 hours a week. The rest is just fans and open windows. And just that makes her electric bill $300. Our butler doesn’t have ac at all in her house. They send their kids up to the hiss with family when it gets hot out so it’s not as hot. Jamaica is a beautiful place fulla beautiful people. But the struggle is REAL on that island.

How'd you go about moving it internationally with the flights and whatnot? I've heard that it's a terrible hassle and very expensive. Like what kind of details/paperwork did you have to do? Your price listed seems awfully cheap compared to what I've heard before for transporting dogs

That is so cool! I am sure he will be loved and kudos to your wife's hard work! :thumb:

That’s ****ing awesome!

Good on you. Enjoy your new family member.

Very cool, good for you.