Shared by Jeff Manson of Valley River Humane Society Shelter
So we would like to share what we consider to be what we are calling a Devine Kirsty Intervention.
Recently we took several dogs to Smoky Park in Asheville for transport. Natasha, who operates the Shelter Dog Transport Alliance uses this location as a rendezvous for several rescues before heading off to Canada. I asked Natasha to please send me a text to let me know that she arrived in Canada okay. I don’t usually ask her to do that but for all we’ve been through, I wanted to make sure.
That morning we had arranged a transport for six of our dogs. We headed out at 8:00 am and headed towards Landrum, SC. After dropping off five of our dogs in Landrum I received a text from Natasha indicating that she was fine and heading back. Now I could have simply replied with a great news, but for some reason I gave her our itinerary, and that we were now heading to Greenville, SC to deliver the last dog.
Five minutes after receiving my reply Natasha receive a very frantic phone call from a rescue in Maryland that specializes in Dogs with disabilities. Joyce asked Natasha is she was anywhere close to Greenville, and Natasha indicated that she was in Canada. Joyce explained that there is a dog named Daphne who has a rear leg disability and was scheduled to be euthanized at 12pm. Natasha informed Joyce that she had just received a text from us that we would be in Greenville within the hour. Natasha called us immediately and asked if we could go to this shelter and save Daphne? We told her yes absolutely but that we couldn’t make it by noon. She said that they would call the shelter to inform them that we would be coming! We quickly dropped off our last dog Jay and headed off to the shelter arriving at 12:25 pm.
When we entered the building we were directed to the Foster window. We both had a pit in our stomachs and indicated that we were there to pick up Daphne. The Administrator said I’m so sorry, with a pause, I literally held my breath, as she informed us that Daphne had already been adopted. I exclaimed, that’s us, that’s us! She said that they would get Daphne ready to go and both Jim and myself were both so elated. I asked the Administrator if she’d like to hear a story and I told her the series of events that had occurred to bring us here for Daphne, her reply was Devine Intervention! While we both wholeheartedly agreed we also felt that Kirsty had a heavenly hand in what had just occurred.
The door opened and out came Daphne, she was walking just fine, but so frightened. Jim and I took her outside and we sat down with her trying to calm her. So after showing her love, she calmed somewhat and we loaded her into a crate for our trip back to the shelter. When we arrived back and took her out of the crate she was a totally different dog, tail wagging, happy, and giving out kisses! We are all certain that Daphne knew that we saved her life today. So Daphne will rest at our shelter and Thursday she will be transported by Natasha to her foster home in Maryland. She will be treated for her disability and will end up in a furever home soon. We were all so blessed to be a part of saving this precious girl today.
Saving one dog will not change the world, but for Daphne, her world certainly was changed today forever.
