When growing up under normal circumstances we tend to think of our parents as superheroes but as we grown up we sometimes forget that fact and start thinking of our parents as if they are just normal people. Then something happens that makes you think, "My mom's a BAMF" and makes you think that you were right when you were a kid.
So can you guess what happened to me earlier this week. I mean I've always known that my mom was awesome, but this made other people know.
So my mom and her boyfriend were out in the forests of northern vancouver island, they were grouse hunting. And suddenly my mom says "cat". Thinking that she meant cougar her boyfriend turned around pointing his rifle in that direction. But my mom saw a ratty little light furred creature which looked like it could have been a house cat. And so what does my mom do, creep slowly towards the animal so as not to spook it. Of course with her boyfriend following behind her rifle at the ready just in case it turned out to be a cougar cub. Once they got close enough to see it a little clearer they saw that it was not a cat at all but a small little dog. And then they had decided to try and call the dog to them. But it was only an act in futility, but luckily it didn't scare the dog off. So at that point they split up my mom going around to behind the dog while her boyfriend tried to keep its attention. Now she wasn't able to catch it coming up from behind it but what she did was that she guide-chased it so that her boyfriend could finally catch it, and while guiding it she noticed a tattered cardboard box with a rock weighing it down from the inside. Giving them evidence that it had been abandoned and not just run away. So now holding the puppy that notice that it was covered in fleas so bad that it had chewed off patches of fur, making some parts of the small dog almost literally skin then bone. So almost more than half starved, covered in fleas, and with patchy fur not to mention the abandoned wet dog smell covering it they rushed to his truck and then as fast as they could they went to the veterinary hospital where only one month ago me and my mom had taken our old cat to sadly be put out of his pain. But they didn't just leave the dog there so that the vet could take care of it, no they took it in for a full check up, deworming, and defleaing. Finding out that she was a pom/chi mix, unfixed 9-12 months old and the only thing wrong with her was that she was almost starved my mom had her boyfriend drive her and the puppy now named grouse the wonder dog home. Where us already having one dog we had dog food.
And so we now have a new addition to our furry family. A rotty/lab cross named Princess Leia, a tabby cat named Tabi, now a pom/chi named Grouse the wonder dog. And enough love for them all.
Post Script: Grouse is actually not the first of our unintentionally obtained pets. Tabi was born on my mom's bed while looking after a friends cat because she couldn't have pets in her new apartment. Tabi's siblings actually went to our friends too not the mother cats owners friends.
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