The importance and magnitude of a lifetime commitment...

Sassy and Trouble have been returned to us from their adoptive family. After fostering them for months, this family committed to providing them a permanent, loving, forever home. Well, that was a year ago. Apparently 'forever' means different things to different people. Their adoptive family returned them because two dogs were "more than they could handle" as a family. Unfortunately, somehow they didn't realize that during the lengthy foster period or prior to signing our adoption agreement! And, unfortunately, it's Trouble and Sassy that will suffer.

Needless to say, these two wonderful dogs have become homeless yet again. They lost their original family due to a death and had to leave forever the boy they cherished. And just about the time they thought they were safe and wanted, they find themselves again without the family and kids they had grown to love.

We understand what a large commitment it is to adopt a dog. We ask people to commit to it every day. And it's a double commitment when you take on the responsibility for two. But, you also get double the love and gratification from saving two wonderful, deserving lives.

Please consider giving these beautiful 6 year old siblings a "happily ever after" story. Know though that they have suffered and are confused. Being abandoned and homeless this late in life is certainly heartbreaking and devastating. We will not allow it to happen to them again. They're just too good to be thrown away.

Original Story:

Sassy and Trouble are sweet and fun loving black Lab siblings whose lives recently took a terrible turn for the worse. They'd spent their entire, happy lives together with their family. Life was pretty good - a loving home with a single mom, a boy of their very own and all the kitty cats they could snuggle. Then disaster struck. It was unimaginable.

Their mom died suddenly leaving everyone distraught and in despair... and to make matters worse, they became homeless on top of it all. Everything changed. Sassy and Trouble were in a bad spot - no place to live - nowhere to go – no mom to look out for them. What remained of their family was spread among several homes.

Although friends pitched in to help in every way they could, no one could take in two large Labs. But these friends cared deeply for this family so they refused to let Animal Control step in knowing that large, black dogs don't stand much of a chance of being adopted from a shelter. And these two dogs were just too good to turn their backs on.

Their boy, still struggling with the loss of his mother, loved them very much. Since his home situation and life were in turmoil, he realized that he had no other choice but to give up his dogs – to seek help finding them a new home.

So, with slumped shoulders and teary eyes, he asked us to help find them a new loving family. It was a very difficult decision because he wanted his dogs to stay with him but he knew he needed to do what was best for them. These two pups have spent their entire lives together and are now confused and a little scared but still sweet, funny and well behaved. They are missing their family life terribly. They need and deserve to find a home together. Besides, we promised their boy we’d do everything we could to keep them together. We promised Sassy and Trouble we'd do our best too.

Sassy and Trouble… with names like that they do sound like a handful but "lap full" is more appropriate - a lap full of eager-to-please, loving Retrievers. They're nothing at all what their names imply. They are 5 years old, nicely tempered and fully house-trained. They love kids and they just adore cats. We desperately need to get them out of boarding and into a foster home immediately so we can reduce their stress and work on finding their forever home as quickly as possible. They've been through enough... separation just isn't an option... they need each other.

Do you have a little extra room in your heart and your home for this beautiful pair of orphans? They would love to be part of a family again... and maybe have a big fenced yard to play in… maybe a kitty cat or two... and maybe, just maybe, a boy of their very own again...

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