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Sadie is very gentle, very calm Lab mix. She takes the small cookie out of my hand like a florist handling a delicate flower.

She's overweight, though - overweight enough you could use her back as a table because it's so wide. Ok, that's mean. No one should use her as a table. Perhaps an ottoman, though. Ok, that's mean, too.

How about who ever adopts her put her on a diet so that one day soon she'll be able to touch her back toes again and climb the stairs without huffing.





The best way to check on the adoption status of this dog (and other dogs and cats and other small domestic animals) is to visit Toronto Animal Services adoption website or call 416 338 6668 for the Toronto Animal Services South shelter. If the dog is no longer on the TAS adoption website, it's probably because it's been adopted already.



4 Comments to “Sadie - Labrador Retriever mix”

  1. annie says:

    Many, many years a go I knew a dog like Sadie. A stray, she carefully and cleverly hid her puppies in underground holes that we were told were old munitions storage places in a field in East Toronto. As the puppies got older and harder for the mother to hide a group of good people attempted a rescue. It took a long and patient time but eventually all were rescued and found loving homes. The mother who looked like this TAS Sadie was a calm, loyal and wonderful dog and the love of her rescuers life until her death many happy years later. Sadie was the name her new rescuer and owner gave her. Perhaps the name will bring TAS's Sadie good luck finding a similar good forever home! I hope so.

  2. Fred says:

    Thanks for that lovely story, annie.

  3. Mara G says:

    What's Sadie's story? Has she been adopted?

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The public still too often associates shelter dogs with images of beat up, sick, dirty, severely traumatized animals and while we definitely sometimes see victims such as these, they are certainly not the majority and, regardless, even the most abused animals can very often be saved and made whole again.

Pound Dogs sometimes discusses the sad histories some of the dogs have suffered. For the most part, though, it tries to present the dogs not as victims but as great potential family members. The goal is to raise the profiles of animals in adoption centers so that a potential pet owner sees them as the best choice, not just as the charity choice.

So, here's the favour I'm asking. Whenever you see a dog picture on these pages you think is decent enough, I'd like you to consider sharing it on Facebook or any other social media sites you're using (I know many of you do this already and thank you for that). And when you share it, please mention that the dog in the photo is a shelter dog like so many other shelter dogs waiting for a home. If we can get even five percent of the pet buying public to see shelter dogs differently, to see how beautiful they are and how wonderful they are, and to consider shelter dogs as their first choice for a new family member, we can end the suffering of homeless pets in this country.
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