Mushy, the fight to a happy ending…

Hi my name is Mushy…

I was born about 5 years ago. I had a bad life but now its different.

My first family wasnt nice to me, they didn’t love me. I was given away to a shelter. The shelter found a rescue group to help me find a new foster family until i could find a Furever home. The rescue group found me a foster family but they didn’t like me either. They didn’t play with me or pay attention to me. They would beat me up and throw me around like i was garbage. One day they took me for a ride and left me on the side of the road. All the bad things this family did to me made me blind so I couldn’t find my way and just wandered until animal control picked me up. Animal control took me to a kill shelter.

At the shelter I almost died. They were going to make me go to sleep because they said no one loved me and i would never find a furever home. Right before they wanted me to go to sleep another rescue came and saved me. They saved me from having to go to sleep forever but that wasnt enough! They found someone to adopt me and give me a Furever home but that wasnt enough either!!

My new Furever home family adopted me knowing that I was blinded from my first family but they couldn’t handle the responsibility that they agreed to when they adopted me. They didn’t like that i couldn’t see, or that i can’t walk down stairs because I cant see them, or anything else that i couldn’t do because I am blind. They “Couldn’t Handle Being Loving Parents” so they took me for a ride just like my first family. This time i was left to wander on the side of a highway.

I was picked up again and brought to another kill shelter in New Jersey. Its a good thing that i was Micro-chipped from the first rescue group and the shelter was able to call them. That rescue group didn’t come to pick me up tho. A different rescue group came and picked me up.

I stayed with this new rescue group for a little while. They named me Johnny and placed me with a few people that didn’t like me and never loved me. The rescue group was giving me away to different people every other day and these people were giving me back. Again, someone said I was going to have to go to sleep because no one wanted me!

A few months went by and a lot of people that didn’t want me went by. I lived with a lot of people that liked to make lot of excuses for everything. I finally went back to live with the rescue group. Soon, the rescue group said they couldn’t keep me because “I would require too much attention?!?!?” They were ready to make me go to sleep but a couple people came and said they would take me in.

The new people said that they would be my new foster parents until i find a Furever home but I didn’t believe them. They took me to their home. I meet their other doggy, then another doggy and they became my friends but i still didn’t believe these people would keep me or love me Furever.

I was always sad and scared. I would sit in the corner by myself or hide under the bed. Sometimes i would bark at my foster mommy and foster daddy. My foster mommy would yell and get mad when i barked. My foster mommy didnt like me and didn’t want me so i stayed away from her and hid under the bed. One time i bit my foster daddy by accident when he tried to play with me under the bed; he didn’t get mad, he said its ok to be scared.

Some months went by and i got used to living at my foster home. My name was changed to “Mushy”. Even tho I barked and bit my foster daddy a couple times he never got mad at me. Dad always tried to help me but one day my foster mommy scared me and i bit her by accident! She got really mad so she called the rescue group people and they said that they were going to take me back and its time to put me down.

My foster daddy said NO! My foster daddy told them that I am still adjusting to living with and trusting people! The foster people said that I was a liability and that it’s time for me to be put down. Dad said NO even tho they said that they were coming to take me away….. There was a lot of yelling and fighting! Dad was mad and hung up the phone.

My foster dad called some people. He was on the phone for a long time. My foster mom was yelling to get rid of me! The foster people called back and fought with my foster dad on the phone. Dad said that he will not talk to them and that they can speak with his attorney. Whats an attorney??? Dad told me everything would be ok and that no one would take me away. I was really scared, was dad really telling the truth? There was a lot of yelling on the phone for the next couple days. Foster mom still didn’t want me and always said i needed to go away. Dad always said no! Dad was was on the phone a lot and always a very long time. Dad would always take me everytime he went out and when ever he went to the store. I went everywhere with dad!

After a few weeks, a lot of fighting and a lot of yelling, dad got some papers. Dad signed some papers. Dad argued with the rescue group again on the phone but he told me that it was the last time. Dad said i don’t have to worry anymore because i belong to daddy and no one will ever take me away!!! Dad said that I was ADOPTED!

I lived with dad and foster mom for a couple months, foster mom still didn’t like me and treated me different. Foster mom always yelled at dad about me. Foster mom always said she hated me and hoped i would die!

One day Dad and I moved. We moved to a new home and my foster mom was NOT allowed to come. I had my very own home with daddy and all my own stuff now!
~I didn’t have anyone yell at me or be mean to me anymore!
~I have my own grass to play in and my own couch to sleep on!
~I go play in the park every weekend and get to play with lots of new doggy friends!
~I have all my own toys!
~I have my own food bowl!
~I go to play with the ducks!

I Finally have my own FUREVER HOME with my daddy, FOREVER!