December 4, 1999

One day a man was driving down the road and saw a lady at the side of the road who was giving away puppies from the back of her car. She told him that if she didn't find homes for all of the puppies, she was going to take them to the pound. He looked at this one little Chow/Shar-Pei puppy and felt sorry for it. So, not wanting it to end up at the shelter, he took her. Unfortunately, a couple of weeks later he decided that he just could not deal with the normal puppy behaviors...chewing, messing indoors, etc. Consequently, he ended up taking the puppy to the shelter himself.

The shelter called our associate in Westminster, MD and told her about the little puppy, asking if she could take it as they didn't want to see it euthanized. She picked up the little girl and took it back to her kennel until she could find it a forever home.

Louie had called us to ask us about another Chow she had that she wanted us to find a home for. We made the trip up, to pick up the one Chow she'd called us about, and that was when we first laid eyes on the puppy. She was such a precious little girl and we fell in love with her immediately. We talked to Louie and told her we'd take the puppy as well.

On the ride back to Virginia, the puppy rode on my shoulder and the window sill the whole way. That was when we decided to name her Manulani--heavenly bird--since she liked to perch.

Manulani (Lani) attended all our adoption days where we tried to find her a good home. One of our adoptive parents was taken with her from the first time she saw Lani and decided she wanted to adopt her. So, while the foster family went out of town one week, Manulani went to her potential new home for a trial run sleepover. By the time her foster family got back to town, it had been decided that the adoption would never work as the two fur kids did not get along very well.

So, back to the adoption days Lani went. No one was interested in adopting her as she was just too rambunctious and loved chewing on everything in sight including the humans. It was finally concluded that it was better if she were to remain premanently with the foster family who had by that time fallen madly in love with her, "warts" and all.

Once Lani grew up, she calmed down and became every bit the wonderful little girl we'd always known her to be, gave up messing in the house and chewing, and is the most wonderfully friendly little one anybody could wish to meet. When she gets excited at seeing you, her entire rear end shakes back and forth along with her wagging tail. Every time she comes to one of our adoption days, everyone who sees her falls in love with her beauty and sweet personality. They are constantly trying to adopt her, but to no avail, as her family loves her dearly and would never part with her for anything.

Donations

Chow Rescue is a non-profit organization. If you would like to make a donation by credit card to Chow Rescue, you can register for online payments at PayPal; the email address you'll need to use is chowrescue@cox.net and the name is McBee. You can also make a donation by check payable to Michael McBee at P.O. Box 2083, Falls Church, VA 22042-2083.

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7 June 1999