Before she would be officially up for adoption, she would need help for her heartworm and would have to gain some weight. She was also thin at just 32 pounds and had considerable hair loss. She got along well with other dogs and cats, had no negative reaction to kids or people and was well-behaved without any training. It turned out that Willow was already potty-trained and, like her name, pliant. “We were all pining over the little babies,” says Best Friends supervisor Ronni Weber, “And Willow was amazing.” But when the right dog is there waiting for you, time and distance don’t really matter.īack in early May, Willow and her puppies, only a few weeks old at the time, were transported from a shelter in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to Best Friends in Northwest Arkansas. Willow, a sweet Shar-Pei mix mama with six puppies, was 106 miles away in Bentonville, Arkansas. It turns out that the dog they were looking for would fall just outside that limit.
And feeling fulfilled by their efforts to give Takhi a good home, they were both ready to help save the life of another dog. They wanted to “give (another) dog a fun, fabulous life,” says Lea, and so they decided to begin searching within a 100-mile radius for their new companion. Lea and Don thought Takhi should have a playmate. Anywhere he went, Takhi was sure to follow, even if it meant jumping a fence. The big fellow immediately formed a formed a deep connection with Don. Takhi, an 86-pound Shar-Pei, was named for Przewalski’s horses, the ancient wild equines also called takhi, the word for spirit in Mongolia, the only place where the horses are found. Being the animal lovers that they are, they decided to look for a dog who needed a good home. But when Elvis died this past September, they found themselves without a dog for the first time in a while. They said yes, and she drove Elvis to their house. In one case, while riding their horses, they encountered Elvis, a black Shar-Pei, and were asked by the woman who had him if they would take him in. Through the years, dogs came to them in many ways. She and Don, her husband of 35 years, live on 21 acres in the rolling hills around Republic, Missouri.
Lea White has always lived with animals, from horses and ponies to barn cats, house cats, goldfish, birds and dogs.
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