left to right: Beatrice & Violet
long as we are together we will be OK! We settled back in with Nicole and Carson not bothering anything and sitting in our basket watching Nicole and Carson live life! A few months later the strangest thing happened. Carson got a new car! A BMW in fact! We thought he just wanted to take us on a drive but WOW! It was a LONG drive. We had many potty stops! Our travel took us from Illinois all the way to Tennessee. We arrived to meet a nice man who was headed to work. Not knowing, withNicole andCarson’s blessing that he would soon be our forever Dad, Greg. We drove up the steep driveway to a house on a nice hill. A lady came down to meet us. She would soon be our forever Mom, Lisa. After meeting us we all went upstairs to meet two other dogs. You see, Greg and Lisa have adopted dogs in the past. Two from YTNR (Lulu and Jasper). Dog- Dog and Bear were from a shelter and another rescue. We have even seen a framed award for Jasper who won the YTNR runner up Smokey award in 2012. They had never adopted two dogs at the same time so we were on our best behavior. We introduced ourselves to DogDog and Bear. We got along quickly other thanme trying to be the alpha dog. I was a bit rough with DogDog. I learned quickly that we were all equal and our new Mom and Dad had enough time and love for
each of us. Time has marched on and we are more than settled in. Our Mom and Dad have strange work hours. Mom stays home when Dad works. Two nights a week Mom leaves and says she is going to make dog food money and our Dad stays home. They work opposite schedules to give us better lives! We like it when they are both home together but understand, we like our food! Every corner of our for- ever home has a water bowl or a comfy bed! We never have to worry about food or water again! We do remind or Mom and Dad that it is 5:00 TIME TO EAT! I don’t have to remind Bea- trice to be good. They never mind that we make a mess with our meals. They never complain about our potty accidents. They understand that it was our way of life for many years. We don’t even have to fight for food! There is always plenty. Beatrice and I have both had a few medical issues since we found our forever home. You see Beatrice yelped one night and had trouble walking on her good leg in May. Mom took her to our new vet and she had a pinched nerve in her back. It was difficult to watch her struggle since her other back leg already had a luxating patel- la. She has been a good girl and rest- ed, took her medication and she is so much better. She can now roll in the grass in the back yard and even walks
down stairs. It makes our Mom very nervous for her to walk down stairs but Dad says “let her try and do what she can and wants to do!” I think they argue a little about that! Then, I had to have surgery. Nicole and Carson had been keeping a close eye on a bump that I had. It started bothering me so, the same vet that fixed Beatrice has done the same for me. I don’t have the bump anymore. I did not want to know what the bump was for a very special reason. It could be cancer. I can’t worry about that! I have to take care of Beatrice. Part of my promise to be together forever has been eased. You see we are both safe and well bonded to DogDog, Bear and our forever family. So, this is our forever story! We are the happiest “Survival Sisters” you could meet! We sit on the front deck on beds in the morning and evening watching the hummingbirds and deer. We can see the driveway that brought us to our forever home. We use our backyard for exploring, roll- ing in the grass and other personal reasons. We get to travel to our Gran’s in Murfreesboro for overnight visits. We have never had a grandmother and WOW, have we missed out. She has special cookies and meals for us and we get to sleep in her bedroom in our TOGETHER BED! She has arthritis like Beatrice so her rubs are so gentle. We have an Aunt andUncle as well as >
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