This is a wonderful story I saw in the newspaper recently. 'Stranger pays $5K to reunite Kimbo the dog with his family' is the caption. 'Kimbo the dog was lost in August and ended up being adopted. When Kimbo's family discovered that he had been adopted out his adoptive family did not want to return him. Lawrence Dalle Vedove offered $5000 to the adoptive family to release the dog.'
Then the next day this follow up story appeared in the paper. 'Hero who paid to return stranger’s dog rewarded for generosity'. Expedia Canada gave him a free trip to Australia and the family who lost their dog started up a crowd fund which promises to amass more than the original $5000. Any excess will be donated to an animal welfare organization.
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Beautiful photos, and love the story, good to see that there is kindness in the world! Have a good, new week. Hugs, Valerie
Tears in my eyes with that story, Christine. I can't believe that family wouldn't return the dog to its rightful owners until they were offered $5,000. They only had him for two months, so it wasn't this deep bond. And if that was their argument, that bond was only worth a few thousand dollars. Unbelievable. I'm so glad that wonderful man stepped forward to help and even happier that his kindness was returned to him. May he always have joy in his life.
People really need to give up the pet if they find out it had a previous owner. Especially if that time frame is only 1-3 months
I am with you Martha!
Very bad. Feel sorry for the real owner of the dog.
There are kind, generous people out there.
I have to write again :)
Is sad but is a nice story finally, I feel sorry for the real owner of the dog 1
It's a real shame that they lost their dog and it actually ended up getting adopted. I hope they take precautions to make sure that can't happen again. Glad they got their dog back in the end. It's always nice to hear about nice things strangers do. If I was rich I think I'd be the kind of crazy rich who just gave money away randomly like that.
That is a great story!
aww Mark!
it's nice to see leaves change colors...
that is a such a good story, it's nice to hear good things happening as it offsets the bad things...
have a lovely day.
hmmmmmm.....its interesting that the adoptive family didn't give up the dog until money changed hands, which begs the question: how much did they really love the dog?
It was generous of the person to pay so the family good get their dog back.
peace.
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love your photos especially the bottom one!
I'm a great believer in passing it forward or karma and such like. I always think doing good brings it's own rewards even if it is just a smile :D
Thanks for sharing such a positive kind story
I like your photo's ...
What a great story.
All the best Jan
cool, we need to here such things these days.
That is so sweet! (But I hope the adoptive family did not accept the $5000 and released the dog anyway. I hope...)
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