Sasha

Hi, my name is Sasha and I’m celebrating my third birthday this month.  I would like to share my happy tail with you.  It starts out pretty scary.

You see, some not so nice persons put me and my brothers and sisters into a box and dropped us off at the Nassau Humane Society shelter during  the night in February 2004 and just left us.  Alone, cold, hungry and so scared.  We were just babies taken from our mama, our only source of love and food.  After a very long, cold night, the workers of the shelter arrived and found us in our box. 

Boy, were we glad to see those caring folks.  They picked us up, cuddled us and then took us in and fed us and then cuddled us some more.  What a relief we all felt.

Soon after, they checked us out to make sure we were healthy then they sent my little family to stay with a foster family named Francesco and Susan Milana. 

Oh, what fun that was.  We stayed on their patio in a large fenced area and there we played together, ate lots of good food and pooped everywhere.

Francesco and Susan brought me to the Humane Society’s Spaghetti fundraiser in April to show me off and hope to get me adopted to a family.   Well, it worked, and I met my forever family, John and Penny Landregan.  It was love at first sight and lick.  Penny held me close and I knew that I had found my forever Mom. 

Susan, Francesco, Mom and Papa set around the table to come up for a name for me.  Something unusual, they said and Francesco came up with Sasha.  I just loved my new name and I still get excited when I hear it. 

After the dinner, we went to my new home and I thought, oh what a lucky girl I am. Then the next day my new Mama and Papa brought this crate thing home and put me into it and expected me to sleep in it.  Well, I was absolutely certain that I could not and would not sleep in that jail.  I raised such a ruckus that they took me out, fixed me a nice bed and took the nasty thing back to the store the next day.  I quickly learned to use the great outdoors as my own potty so that they would never put me into another one of those things!

My folks took me to see Dr. Kim Carter, my wonderful vet, for my check-ups.  She gives me kisses and makes me feel so good.  I just love her.  I also went through obedience school with Ron White who scared the heck out of me and made me do things that I didn’t want to do.  I learned quickly to mind my manners around him and now I am thankful that I did.  I now no longer jump up on people and I mind my Mama and Papa most of the time.

I live a very happy life now.  I have my favorite toys around me, I go for rides in the car.  I get Mickey D’s hamburgers as treats occasionally.  I go to the beach and do the Turtle Watch with my Papa.

My Mama and Papa volunteer at the shelter and I go along with them.  When we turn onto Airport Road I start barking to let the dogs know that I am coming to see them.  I am telling them that they must keep the faith, be good, and one day soon their forever family will come to adopt them. 

 

Now that I am celebrating my 3^rd birthday I just wanted to write to everyone at the shelter to say a big “thank you” who helped me when I turned up at their door.  Thank you to Linda, Sparky, Beth, Dee, Gil, Francesco and Susan for giving me your unconditional love. 

I love you back!!!
Sasha Landregan
February 1, 2007

P.S.  I hear my Mama and Papa talking about the shelter. It is going to build a new facility to house more homeless animals as well as a doggie park.   Oh boy, oh boy,  please hurry and get this place built for us doggies in Nassau County.  We need a place to run and play.  There is nowhere in this county that we can do this without getting put into doggie jail!