Here is Hank's Story, written by CC's mum - who found and rescued Hank.


Tuesday, February 2009

We first met Hank in February 2009. It was a warm Tuesday afternoon and we were
sitting outside enjoying the day. Our son Jason and Scott, his friend from work had
stopped by.

The “girls” our two beagle mix dogs, were outside with us. One of the dogs started
barking and my husband said that a cat was crossing the road, but when Jason went to
check, it turned out to be a small black and tan dog. He was skin and bones, flea and tick
infested and scared to death.

As Jason approached him, he cowered and got closer to the ground, but allowed Jason to
pick him up. Jason brought him over to where we were and I went to get him some food
and water. He ate so fast, afraid that someone would take the food away, that he was
swallowing big mouthfuls, and then choking it back up. He ate three bowls and drank
some water.

This scared little guy had a huge green collar, much to big for him, with a name and
phone number that said ... if found, please call. Thinking we were doing some poor dog
lover a favor, we called the number, only to find out that we were talking to the dog
owner’s mother. She gave us the number for her son, who was the dog owner. So my husband called him. After several attempts we finally reached the owner. He was working and explained that when he was finished working he would stop and get his dog on the way
home from work.

More than an hour went by and we waited for some one to show. We called again and
told the owner that we had an appointment that evening and he needed to get the dog
before 5:30. We decided that, if he didn’t want the dog back, we would find it a home. I wanted to personally ask him why the dog was in such poor shape and what was he going to do about him.

When he finally arrived to get the dog I was in the house. The owner told my husband that the dog had been running deer for the past two days and that’s why he looked the way he did. My husband said there was no way the dog had only been gone two days, looking the way he did. He told the owner that, if he didn’t want the dog, we would find a home for him.

The owner stated that someone could have him if he paid him $250. My husband said that no one would give him $250 for the dog in the shape he was in, so the owner grabbed the dog and said, “Come on Hank, let’s go home.”

He loaded Hank into the back of his pickup truck and chained him to a spare tire. My
husband said the dog did not look happy to see his owner, and, obviously, to the owner, Hank was just an object, not a part of his family or anything that he cared about.

We talked about he dog and decided that, if Hank ever showed up at our house again, we
would not be calling the number on his collar. We did find out where the owner lived, and unbelievably, Hank lived right up the street from our house. We would ride by periodically to see if he was being cared for. We could see he was being kept in a large cage and had a doghouse for shelter. One day we rode by and the doghouse was gone, no sign of Hank. The next day the cage was gone and it looked like the house was abandoned. We figured Hank would never been seen by us again.

April, 2009

Imagine our surprise when in early April, Hank showed up at our house, in the same
condition he was in the first time. That was it—we made the decision to find a decent
home for him. I called the number on the collar and left a message with the ex-owner’s
mother that he was not getting the dog back. We took the big, heavy green collar off of
Hank, and put one of our dog’s collars on him. We gave him some food-again he ate
three bowls—and some water, then we safely put him on a leash while we figured out
what to do next.

Our daughter Colleen had just lost a beagle in an accident, so, thinking the time may

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