{"id":21113,"date":"2021-05-13T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T16:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/?p=21113"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"a-blessing-or-a-chance-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/a-blessing-or-a-chance-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blessing or a Chance Encounter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday I was at Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital, P.C.<\/a> with Baby (Bae Bae) to have a test done and get the medications we need to start her heart worm treatment. Chad came out and talked with me about Baby’s condition then took her in for the testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the two ladies in the waiting room with me asked if I was with a rescue. I said, “Yes, Piney Mountain Foster Care”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Oh! I follow you on Facebook.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should have asked her name, but being a complete social klutz I didn’t want to pry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her dog, Ursula, was a beautiful, well, behaved girl who is battling her own issues and being very brave about it. She kept “talking” to Lavonda, encouraging her to come into the lobby and give out biscuits again. She was quite persuasive in her quiet, calm manner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little while later Ursula’s mom stepped closer and handed me some folded bills, “I want to make a donation.” That was a pleasant surprise! I understand it to be gauche to count such a gift in the moment, and I didn’t have a receipt book with me, so I thanked her and tucked the bills away safely in a pocket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told her we were raising funds to pay for Baby’s heart worm treatment, so I’d put this toward that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Baby was done I paid my bill and said goodbye to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I got home I counted the donation we’d been given. I knew it was at least $20.00 because the outer bill was a 20, but I was pleasantly surprised to find 4 more 20’s inside! Wow, what a great start to Baby’s fundraiser!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the phone rang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Cedarwood, letting me know that “Ursula’s mom” had made another donation: $200.00 paid into our account at Cedarwood. Since we have a zero balance we will be able to use all of that, and the cash, on Baby’s treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How wonderful! And all because of a chance meeting with a kind lady and her sweet dog who sings for biscuits. \"\u2764\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baby enjoys snuggling with me while I read at bed time. When it’s time to sleep she toddles off to her own bed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More about Baby: https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/baby\/<\/a>
If you’d like to help Baby you may donate on her page or in her GoFundMe<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was at Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital, P.C. with Baby (Bae Bae) to have a test done and get the medications we need to start her heart worm treatment. Chad came out and talked with me about Baby’s condition then took her in for the testing. One of the two ladies in the waiting room … Continue reading “A Blessing or a Chance Encounter?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21119,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21113\/revisions\/21119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}