The Story of Lola

Lola is a very special Golden.  We spotted her freezing in the cold right before Thanksgiving in 2007.  We spent weeks trying to catch her.  Our theory is that someone had dumped her off in the snow.  Finally, she gave in and bumped her head against my back and let me put a leash around her neck.  I brought her in the house and the girls were so excited.  Our plan was to find a home for her, but she was HOME.  After 3 very expensive trips to the vet, Lola was on her way to being healthy.  When we found her she was extremely underweight with matted fur, holes in the pads of her paws and a horrible infection that was traveling up her legs.  We don't know what her previous owners did to her, but we are so thankful that she found us.  We quickly realized that Lola had some other problems.  She is partially blind and her hearing is really poor.  Lola is very afraid of stairs and loud noises.  She has adjusted well to our family, but runs shaking to a corner when other people come into the house.  Lola easily gets confused and has run away 2 different times.  It didn't take us long to realize that she really sometimes doesn't know where she is going.  The first time that she ran away, she was gone for two months in the late winter.  We had contacted the shelters and looked for her for weeks.  We were very sad, thinking of her lost.  My husband was headed out of the house to go to my daughters school for Track and Field Day, when the phone rang.  The voice said, "we think we may have your dog.".  A wonderful woman at a shelter almost 30 miles away had rememberd us looking for Lola.  She had been dropped off by someone who had accidently hit her with thier car.  Lola was very extremely hurt and they were going to put her down.  Thankfully the same woman had remembered our call and decided to try to call us.  My husband immediately drove to the shelter.  Their laid a bloody and broken Lola.  When he said her name, she stumbled over and put her head in his hand.  We had our Lola back! The girls and I were at their school, he pulled in and came to get us.  "I have a suprise for you", he said.  Then he opened up the back of the car.  We were all in tears.  Once again Lola was back at the vet, then soon home for a much needed rest and some much deserved spoiling.   Lola disappeard one more time, but you will have to keep reading to find out what happened!