2008.01.28: January 28, 2008: Headlines: COS - Belize: Dogs: Michigan Live: RPCVs bring Bean and Beli back from Belize
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2008.01.28: January 28, 2008: Headlines: COS - Belize: Dogs: Michigan Live: RPCVs bring Bean and Beli back from Belize
RPCVs bring Bean and Beli back from Belize
The couple were serving in Belize in the Peace Corps when these two stray dogs started hanging around. They were skinny and sweet. They look like miniature whippets. So, of course, they starting getting fed now and then, and then were fed every day, and soon were coming in the house for playtime. When Marianne and Darren were set to return to the states, it was a given that the dogs, assumed to be sisters, couldn't be left to starve. So they were taken to Belize City at great expense for travel, tests, spaying and shots. Costly crates were bought. And they flew first to Texas to the home of Darren's parents where upon entering the house, they raced for the carpet and rolled around.
RPCVs bring Bean and Beli back from Belize
Going to the dogs is great
Posted by Susan K. Treutler
January 28, 2008 12:41PM
Caption: The photo is for illustrative purposes only. The two dogs in the photo are not Bean and Beli. Photo: Hugh Pickens
[Excerpt]
But I watched a few weeks ago when my sister's granddogs, Bean and Beli, came visiting at her Louisville house, and saw her face light up in a way it hadn't during the two days I'd been there.
My sister is getting hammered with chemotherapy, and I do mean hammered.
But there she was, looking serene and happy as she petted Bean and Beli who'd come running when they spotted her. And no, my sister is not a dog person.
Bean and Beli are among the most blessed creatures on earth. And that includes insects, reptiles and humans.
They belong to my niece, Marianne, and her husband, Darren.
The couple were serving in Belize in the Peace Corps when these two stray dogs started hanging around. They were skinny and sweet. They look like miniature whippets. So, of course, they starting getting fed now and then, and then were fed every day, and soon
were coming in the house for playtime.
When Marianne and Darren were set to return to the states, it was a given that the dogs, assumed to be sisters, couldn't be left to starve. So they were taken to Belize City at great expense for travel, tests, spaying and shots. Costly crates were bought. And they flew first to Texas to the home of Darren's parents where upon entering the house, they raced for the carpet and rolled around.
They'd arrived and they knew it. If their friends could only have seen them eating fancy food from hand-painted bowls and wearing red collars.
Willie may think he is lucky to have been rescued, but he's got nothing on Bean and Beli. Legal immigrants living the good old American dog life.
And they don't even have to worry about electric fences. Their property has a nice friendly wooden fence. All the better for safe play before their naps on soft beds near the fireplace in their masters' bedroom.
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