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Meet Ryan!

Look at those sweet sad eyes.

Ryan has truly been through the most terrible year you can imagine. Originally at an animal shelter a year ago, he was pulled by a rescue and a foster stole him along with another dog. A few months later Ryan was located and was able to be reclaimed, but had severe kennel cough, was boarded while getting well, and was neutered, heartworm tested, fully vaccinated, and had dew claws removed.

Upon being released from the clinic, a new rescue group agreed to try to find him a home, but in short time was returned to the vet due to "hurt feet" where we learned he was injured while in the care of this new rescue group and had bleach burns from being walked through straight Clorox bleach at one home. He was treated and then sent to live with a different new foster, but this foster could never seem to make any adoption events and spoke of adopting him. This all changed when the foster's brother-in-law died and they gained custody of dogs belonging to him.

Ryan was returned immediately and the poor boy was boarded for a time again in a kennel before being sent to live with a rescuer that offered to help, but keeps dogs in pens with only dog houses. No tarps - just pens. The lady that has ownership wasn't fully aware of the situation she was getting him into, and it was only meant to be quite temporary, but has stretched into month after month.

Then we heard recently that during the flooding and rains this summer that this sweet boy was absolutely miserable and tried to drape himself across the top of his Igloo to avoid having to set foot in mud or rain water.

We cannot let anything else like this happen to Ryan. We are working on transporting him to MARS right now and he should arrive here soon. The story broke our hearts and we are going to make sure that he is taken care of properly and that a loving FOREVER home is found for him.

He so badly wants to bond with someone. We believe he is a Springer Spaniel Mix and was fully crate-trained, very well-behaved, and on the road to being housetrained when moved this last time to the pen situation.

Ryan has impeccable house manners. He doesn't jump on people and he is extremely friendly. He has had no accidents at all and he has surpassed all our expectations. Ryan will make a wonderful family companion and possibly a good hunting dog as well. The resident dog at his temporary home is not thrilled in the least that there is another dog in the house. We need to get Ryan into a foster home as soon as possible so that we can work on finding him a new forever home.



Please feel free to fill out an Adoption Application on our main website, www.midwestanimalrescue.org, by clicking on the Form/Applications link under Website Features.

Thank You!