{"id":3027,"date":"2025-05-25T22:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/?page_id=3027"},"modified":"2025-05-25T22:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:25:55","slug":"bears-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/?page_id=3027","title":{"rendered":"Bear’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Above are the two photos taken by the shelter when Bear was brought in by Animal Control<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sweet little Bear also joined our family quite unexpectedly.\u00a0 We heard a story about a Yorkie who had been picked up as a stray by our County Shelter.\u00a0 Unfortunately, our County Shelter is a kill shelter and very overcrowded.\u00a0 There is a very good chance that animals who end up there won\u2019t make it out.\u00a0 Bear was put on their website and classified as \u201cLost\u201d.\u00a0 He did have a microchip which probably gave him a little more time.\u00a0 \u201cStray\u201d animals with no microchip are held for 3 days.\u00a0 \u201cLost\u201d animals with microchips are held for 5 days to give their owners time to claim them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shelter repeatedly called the phone number listed on the microchip and left many messages.\u00a0 For whatever reason, the owners never responded to the phone messages or came to the shelter to take him home.\u00a0 The shelter did keep him more than the required 5 days due to some County meetings that happened to be taking place during the time that Bear was in the \u201cLost\u201d section of the shelter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day finally came when Bear was moved to the Adoption Floor temporarily.\u00a0 We made the trip to the shelter to see him.\u00a0 We found out he was being moved to the Euthanasia List because during his long stay, he acquired a respiratory infection.\u00a0 He was also urinating blood.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spent some time with Bear (who was originally named \u201cTiger\u201d according to his microchip information.)\u00a0 We made the decision that we couldn\u2019t abandon him at the shelter where he probably wouldn\u2019t be alive to see the next day.\u00a0 The adoption was finalized and we took him home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way home \u201cTiger\u201d was given the name \u201cBear\u201d by John in memory of our \u201cBenji Bear\u201d from many years before.\u00a0 The first thing we had to do was take him to the vet to be treated for the respiratory infection.\u00a0 At the same time, he was given a complete checkup.\u00a0 An x-ray revealed that he had bladder stones, which explained the blood.\u00a0 There were so many stones in his bladder and the vet told us he needed surgery as soon as possible.\u00a0 Surgery was scheduled for a week later.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The respiratory infection cleared up in a few days, thankfully before the surgery.\u00a0 During the surgery an entire tube of stones was removed.\u00a0 The vet made the comment that the poor little guy was probably suffering in silence for a very long time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bear recovered quickly and has really blossomed over the 9 months that he\u2019s been with us.\u00a0 He is being tested for a recurrence of the bladder stones every 3 months.\u00a0 So far, all the tests have come back negative.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bear has only one problem.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t like to be alone.\u00a0 If John or I get up and leave the room, he immediately follows us.\u00a0 If we go outside to the yard, he\u2019s right behind us.\u00a0 We can\u2019t leave the house completely without him because he frantically runs around the house looking for us the entire time we are gone.\u00a0 We\u2019ve left cameras on in order to check on him, and he whines and races through the house looking for us the entire time we\u2019re gone. \u00a0As an experiment we started putting him in a crate with toys and stuffed animals whenever we had to leave.\u00a0 He has finally accepted this and now willingly goes into his crate whenever we leave the house.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He gets along well with Pepper, Shelby, Bella, and Lexi.\u00a0 That\u2019s a big plus.\u00a0 I think they helped a lot in giving him confidence and making him feel safe and loved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bear, we have a feeling that you had a very hard life before we found each other.\u00a0 But I promise you, the rest of your life will be wonderful.<\/strong>\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the first photo we took of Bear the day we brought him home.<\/strong> The photos below show how Bear has changed over the months since his adoption.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bear’s Story Above are the two photos taken by the shelter when Bear was brought in by Animal Control Sweet little Bear also joined our family quite unexpectedly.\u00a0 We heard a story about a Yorkie who had been picked up as a stray by our County Shelter.\u00a0 Unfortunately, our County Shelter is a kill shelter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-gutentor-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3027","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3027\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allthedogsinmylife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}