Scootch.... the yellow lab is rescued

We are officially out numbered at our house now by rescued pets. It is amazing to me how animals in need of rescue just always happen to cross someone in The Borchgardt Bunch's path. Last Tuesday, March 4th, Doyle and Blaine took a late afternoon drive to the river in South Brazos County to check on several cows who should be having calves. Suzanna and I passed on this quick trip to the river as I had just grabbed her from ballet class. Doyle was headed after the river run to Brenham to celebrate his mother winning Tax Assessor for Washington County. Needless to say a busy night at our house. I receive a phone call about an hour and half after the boys had left from Doyle who sounded distressed. Apparently they stumbled upon a yellow lab male who had been attacked by other dogs or coyotes. He was covered in mud and blood and could only walk on three legs. Doyle had wanted to drive off knowing good and well what was in store for us after the Cowboy rescue which ended in orthopedic surgery at Texas A&M. Blaine fell in love with the lab and as Doyle began to drive away not wanting to rescue the dog Blaine cried, " Mom would do it! God would do it!" Doyle said when your son tells you how Christ would respond in a situation, you have no other choice, but to respond as Christ would. He loaded the injured lab up and called me to get the on call vet to the clinic for a long night ahead of them. Sure enough ,it was a long night as they had to bath the lab 3 times to get the blood and mud off. He had xrays done to find no broken bones, but his wounds were three days old and horribly infected. Antibiotics, rabies shots, worm medicine for the grossly out of control hookworms he has and specail rinse for his wounds are now my daily regiment. When the vet called and said, ' The stray ( Blaine later named Scootch) is ready to come home." I thought, ' Home? Where in the world is the stray's home?" Well, now it is with us in our zoo of rescued animals. Each with their own story to tell, but certainly all now healed and restored.

When sharing the story with my father on how we now have come to adopt "Scootch" the yellow lab his one comment was, " That was the Christian thing to do, Sara. You did the right thing!"

Scootch is FULL of energy and our sweet loyal faithful Cowboy has to learn how to now make room for him. Cowboy is quite protective over Blaine and Suzanna! Here is Blaine telling the story of how he found Scootch! and got the uneven hair cut =)!


Here is me "On 10" afraid of the dogs fighting while the kids are swinging and jumping on the trampoline =)! Looking at our backyard from the video, we do need to pick up a bit.