One tremendously hot Saturday afternoon while on our way to play putt-putt with friends, we spotted a female Walker Hound trotting along the busy highway. She was dangerously thin and quite desperate as she came right to us. We forewent putt-putt that day and instead scooped up the skinny hound and loaded her into our SUV with the full intention of delivering her to the animal shelter the following Monday morning. However... after spending the weekend with her, we were completely and utterly in love. We called her "Dona" for one of the Pennsylvania friends who were with us when we found her. That was three years ago. It was also one month after our beloved Brittany Spaniel, "Lucky", had passed away. We always thought that it was Lucky who sent Dona to us.

Jennifer Gold
New Bern, NC