Odie Pampered Under Palm Trees :)

First off i want to give a humongous thank you and blessing to Kate (Grace's niece) for all of her support, help, patients, and much more, you are true true gem and you will forever be apart of our family! :)

Here it is Sunday Feb 14th (Valentines Day) 2010, and I arrived back home from Tampa Florida, bringing Odie our recently released standard poodle to his new owner Grace. There is way to many reasons to list why this was the perfect home for Odie, but here is a couple: This women's passion for animals is truly amazing, i know a lot of people are that way, but what makes Grace different is her heart. Her understanding of the breed, having owned 4 other poodles prior to Odie. She saw Odie's picture and within a matter of moments (OK maybe within an hour) she had contacted me and left me a message basically stating that she wanted Odie with out ever meeting him, but looking in his eyes he was perfect for her! I was leary because she lived in Tampa and we are here in Denver. There were a lot of logistics that would have had to be figured out before i could even think about him being adopted by Grace. After my conversation with Grace i contacted Sharon (Director Training) and explained that there is a lady in Tampa very interested in Odie and would it be okay if he goes to Florida? She had no problems with it and that is were it all beings. I contacted grace back and said that Sharon and myself have no problems with Odie the standard poodle becoming Odie the standard sun dog!

When ever anyone lets go of an animal it is difficult physically and emotionally. But then when complications are tossed into the mix it makes even worse. And that is exactly what we were faced with. Odie was adopted almost a month prior to his going to Florida to meet Grace for the first time. The complications did not come from anything we all did, that includes all parties involved. The complications came from a company called PET AIRWAYS who we had entrusted them to provide a direct flight from Denver to Ft. Lauderdale for Odie to be delivered to Grace. Well they kept pushing the date back week after week were it got to be 3 weeks after initial contact with the company, that they were to fly Odie down to Florida. On top of that they changed there manifest and decided not to tell us and it would up that the trip would have taken Odie 2 1/2 days with 2 layovers to reach Grace in Florida.

I contacted Kate, the niece i had been coordinating this trip with on behalf of Grace and told her flat out this will not work, I am NOT putting him on a plane to take 2 1/2 days to get him to Grace. By the way NEVER USE THIS COMPANY, PASS THE WORD PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

So anyway, back on point, we decided to fly him and me down using United Airlines this past Saturday the 23th and I came home yesterday the 14th, and could not have found a better home for this dog any were.