Saturday, August 28, 2010

Saved from street and sheriff, goat and dogs are together again at Dallas pet orphanage

This is a story about a Great Dane, a goat and a three-legged retriever.

And, no, it is not a joke.

It all began last month when Dr. Karen Fling, owner of the East Lake Pet Orphanage, decided to take in a pair of runaway animals – Minelli, a male goat, and Judy, a female Great Dane. They were discovered wandering around the Alexander Mansion wedding chapel in Garland.

"They were just so touching and so sweet from the very beginning," Fling said. "They were an inseparable pair. They slept together and cuddled together and ate together."

The inter-species love affair immediately softened the hearts of staff members at the animal hospital and nonprofit rescue shelter on Northwest Highway near White Rock Lake. And before long, pictures of the cuddling animal cousins appeared on blogs and local television stations.

Read more

No comments: