A Christmas Miracle

December 2003

by Susan Norland

Volunteering for OES rescue can be oh, so rewarding! Jane Dempsey of OES Rescue of Southern California called me two days before Christmas to check out a report of an Old English Sheepdog at a shelter in my area. She said it was "a long story" but first ID the dog. So many of the reports of OES in shelters are not really OES.

When I got to the shelter and looked at the dog, all I could see was mats. The OES was huddled in the far back of a run. I was sure it was an OES (no one else can do mats quite as well.) The mats were so massive that it was hard to tell one end from the other. I pulled out my cell phone and called Jane to report my findings.