~ Melchizedek to Santiago in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, "
The news around our house this week is the arrival of a new dog. After nearly a year of "letting go" of our beloved family dog of 15 years, Baloo, we decided it was time. Dog people can go only so long without a dog.
My wife Peg has recently been surfing the Washington Animal Rescue League website and last Friday night announced she had found a promising prospect that had just been posted, a five year old, black lab, retriever, chow mix. So the next afternoon we call the WARL to see if they still had the dog. They said someone had shown some interest and was thinking on it but had not put in an application, so off to the WARL we went.
We arrived only to discover that in the time between our call and getting there someone, probably those interested people, had put in an application on him. The dog had been "pink carded" and moved to the non-public area. Peg, convinced the attendant to let us at least see the dog.
As soon as we saw him our hearts jumped, but then quickly dropped. He was just what we had been looking for but not available. So we trudged off to look at the other dogs to no avail.
On our way out we stopped at the desk and Peg asked if we could leave our name just in case the application were to fail. She gave our name and the lady said, "You're the ones who called before coming, aren't you?"
"That was us."
"When you called I put a pink card on him for you just in case. The application on the dog is yours."
And as they say, "The rest is history!"
It all sounds and feels like conspiracy to me!
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