Why Our Family Choose to Adopt a Senior Rescue Dog Instead of a Puppy
Celebrating one year with our Goldy the Oldy
Adopting a dog is one of the most selfless things you can do.
By nature, you will outlive them. You will nurture, feed, and love them, and then they will be taken from you. You will wake in the middle of the night hoping to find them nuzzled against you, only to find your husband sprawled out and snoring.
You will reach to stroke their soft ears and find your fingers caught in your toddler’s sweat-matted hair.
I learned this the hard way after losing our two beagles of fifteen years within a year of each other. It was the hardest loss I had to process — until I lost my father tragically years later.
To protect my heart, I said I’d never adopt another dog, or another father for that matter. Never. Ever. I could not withstand losing another family member. I was committed to a dogless life.
Then, four years after losing our dogs, I saw a post by The Tampa Bay Beagle Rescue with rescue beagles for adoption. My heart jumped. Although emotionally hard to say goodbye to the dogs I loved so much, living without a dog’s companionship had been equally emotionally difficult.
