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trueblue2007

(17,240 posts)
Mon Aug 11, 2014, 11:44 PM Aug 2014

The Black Lab named LADY -- she walked 30 miles to get rejected at her home... THEN GETS ADOPTED!!

YOU MAY CRY THEN GET A BIG SMILE.

Dog That Walked 30 Miles To Get Rejected By Owner Now Getting 5-Star Treatment And New Home (UPDATED)



Ma Kettle is an arthritic senior Lab who walked 30 miles to try to get home -- only to be rejected by her former family once she arrived.

The dog had seen a country song's amount of sadness already. Ma Kettle's previous owner -- who called her Lady -- died in 2012, leaving her homeless. She was adopted out of the Chautauqua County Animal Shelter, in Kansas, but then given away again for not getting along with a new puppy.

She escaped her third home, and walked back to the family with the puppy, but the journey ended with her being sent back to the shelter -- and then this heartbreaking Facebook post:

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Her life has since become a fairy tale.

READ TO FIND THE HAPPY ENDING.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/03/dog-walks-30-miles_n_5641670.html?cps=gravity

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The Black Lab named LADY -- she walked 30 miles to get rejected at her home... THEN GETS ADOPTED!! (Original Post) trueblue2007 Aug 2014 OP
I HAVE BEEN SAD TODAY, this story makes me little happier trueblue2007 Aug 2014 #1
Ma Kettle gets a "Best Doggie Ever" award Blue Owl Aug 2014 #2
feel much better understanding why the family couldn't take her back magical thyme Aug 2014 #3
 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
3. feel much better understanding why the family couldn't take her back
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 09:50 AM
Aug 2014

after she walked 30 miles to them.

And thrilled to read about her final home! Love her new human for adopting Lady...

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