When They Find Us

By Anna Muggiati

Madá; Ready for her new life!

It is the ultimate love story: You are vaguely looking into adopting or buying a pet, and, all of sudden, a pet just shows up in your life. And there's nothing you can do but allow yourself to fall in love again! It happened to me twice with my adopted cats, and I am pretty sure it can happen to anyone. So keep your eyes and heart open!

That is the story of Cristiana, and her son Nic Herzog, our cousin from Rio who was a Summer intern at Petzila. They just crossed paths one week ago with this adorable female dog, and now are enjoying each other and the whole family's company. Madá, a little black and white lady, was found wondering around last week in the university campus and rescued by a student who took her home and tried to find her owners. Thanks to the social network, the good looking dog original owner was not found but some people got interested in adopting her. But before her story, there is Buddy's.

"We always had dogs in our family. Buddy, our last friend died in 2010 and it was taking a long time for the whole family to recover from his loss", tells Cristiana. Buddy was also adopted in extreme lucky circumstances: "We were buying a new house and the former owners couldn't take the dog with them. So we bought the house with him inside ... and adopted him! He had such a wonderful life, and besides his health problems he enjoyed every moment". Cristiana recalls Buddy's 'wedding' to a yellow lab called Polly and, later, the birth of their seven puppies, on a December 31st many years ago.

Nic and B, with Buddy

Buddy had a wonderful life, a very active member of the family, but his last years were very difficult: "He had cancer, went through surgeries and finally metastasis". Coincidentally he passed away the same day that the family's vacation house was being sold, in 2010. Cristiana explains: "Because of this I decided that we would not have any other pet".

But she finally had to change her mind, as her husband and two sons were insisting on having another dog. Initially they were thinking about buying a French bulldog, but also had in mind adopting again. That's when one of her sons saw the dog's photo in the University facebook page and all the family decided to go and meet her. "When we arrived at the house to meet her it was love at first sight! But there was a little problem. Someone else  who called before us was in her way to meet the dog". While Cristiana and Nic were waiting for the decision, Cristiana thought that maybe another family really needed the dog ... But for some reason the person declined. And the Madá went home with Cristiana and Nicolas.

Madá is now recovering, as the vet found she's anemic. She is being treated with antibiotics, vitamins and Iron, and the vet thinks that once she recovers fully she will be a vey energetic dog! She is about two years old and already had puppies. Cristiana tells that she is a bit scared when walking the streets with the noises. We will certainly never know what happened to Madá before she found a new family or even her first name.  But the present and future are looking really good for her and her new family.

             

Madá (sounds like Madah, short for Magdalen)

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