To fill time and to distract ourselves we would look at the Internet every night at anything and everything.  One night my wife was looking on the Internet and found Abby.  She had been abandoned in the middle of winter and was found wandering around, by the dog warden.  She was approximately three months old and weighed nine pounds.  The dog warden brought her to the local shelter where she was put in a cage with a full grown chow-chow and a full grown pit bull.  After three days, the dog warden was going to put her down, when a wonderful rescue organization came in and took her away from this horrible place.  They posted an ad on petfinder.com, with her pictures and description.  This is where my wife came upon Abby.

 We started making phone calls the next day.  It turned out to be rather difficult to track Abby down, but track her down we did.  We made arrangements to visit her on a Saturday.  It turned out to be a blizzard on Saturday, and it was a long ride.  But on the way back, it wasn't a long ride at all, because we had our Abby with us.  When we were given Abby's vet records it turned out that she was born the day before our firstborn baby had passed away.  We like to think they passed each other, Abby coming from Heaven and our firstborn going to Heaven.  Abby has filled our hearts and our home with life, love and joy.  So you see, we never rescued Abby, she rescued us.