Honey Pie

A situation arose in Paragould, Arkansas a few years back, when a property owner called in a complaint about a tenant who was evicted from her property, her husband was put in jail, and she left 2 Rottweilers (male and female) and 4 Chinese Shar-Pei's (3 males, 1 female). The tenant had been evicted months ago and would not get the furniture or the animals out. Two of the Pei's were left in the house with feces everywhere, and two were outside in a dog pen with one dog house. The Rotties were chained up to metal posts with one dog house split in half for shelter. Collars were hooked with a padlock and so worn, shelter staff could not get them off and had to take the 6 ft chains as they could not remove the collars! The plastic dog house was split in half and lay on the ground in the mud affording the dogs no comfort or way to stay dry. There was food but no water, so shelter staff confiscated all the animals at the property due to the conditions. Honey was found to be around 7 years old, was being kept outside, and had been bred repeatedly. This is the beginning of Honey Pie’s story.

Honey Pie was treated for heart worm, mange, entropian surgery performed, vaccinated and spayed. After a period of about three weeks she arrived by plane in Seattle, Washington where TnT Sharpei Rescue picked her up for the last leg of her journey to Mission, BC, Canada.

When she first arrived at TnT Rescue, she would stand and stare at the walls, totally defeated. Terry, her foster mother, treated her with kindly indifference while playing and spending time with the two other dogs in the home. Gradually, Honey Pie started coming out of her shell, and showing how really sweet natured she is. After about a week, Honey was right at home on the king size waterbed with the rest of the pack. Roughly two weeks after arriving in her foster home, one night Terry was laying on her back in bed. Honey Pie laid down beside her and put her little soft neck on top of Terry’s, and went to sleep, little baby breaths puffy softly in and out.

That’s all she wrote folks, little Honey Pie found her new mother and she will be living in Mission with TnT folks who can’t bear to part with her! Honey has been with us now for a few years, and a gentler, sweeter little dog I’ve never seen.

We would like to thank all the folks that contributed this sweetheart’s rescue, those being:

Dr. John Huff who did the medical work for next to nothing, the Homeward Bound folks, RASP, PAWS, and Laura Wood, Carol Lint who gave us the courage to forge ahead with this “senior”, and last but not least, Wendy Cook who got us involved in this rescue! Thank you for helping bring our Honey Pie to us.

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