Juneau is so skinny.
She’s underweight, malnourished, timid, not sure of the world.
This poor girl needs our help.
Hi, sweet girl.
We’ve been contacted about a Husky who is having reoccurring collapsing of the lung.
She has to have emergency surgery.
The problem is, her owners, rather than pursuing surgeries and medical care,
they decided to bring her home to die.
They need to bring the dog right now, 'cause this can’t wait a day.
This can't wait ten minutes, this can't wait an hour.
A fellow Husky rescuer reached out to her owners and convinced them to give them to
GTS Husky Rescue in order to save her life.
- Good girl. - So sweet.
- Hello.
We are about to take her home.
- She’s ready.
- She’s ready to meet her foster siblings.
So, here we go.
- Hi, baby.
Mo was there right after Juneau came out of lung surgery.
- You’re so sweet.
That’s a good girl.
Mo and Blake did a wonderful job with helping her recover from her surgery
by giving her loving care.
- Juneau, careful, you have stitches.
- But Mo called me and said, “Hey, Kaylin.
We’re going out of town.”
They had this trip planned prior to taking Juneau in.
So immediately, Kristin and Jonny were like, “Well, we’re free.
We can do it.”
- We’re currently watching Juneau for her actual fosters, Mo and Blake.
So we’re kind of just the dog sitters for the weekend.
- Say hi to everyone.
- I was like, “Oh my goodness.”
She just looked like Skeletor, almost.
She hopped right into my car like it was hers.
- She knows how to make herself comfortable.
- She just jumped straight on the couch.
She was just kind of like, “You can leave now.”
- She was making herself at home,
generally not near us, initially.
But now she’s starting to get more comfortable with actually being around us.
And, you know, sitting next to us when we’re sitting on the couch,
or sleeping next to us when we’re on the bed.
She’s getting a little more comfortable with us.
- What do you want?
- So, Mo and Blake just texted us that the trip just
actually ended up falling through.
Mo said, “We can come pick her up tonight, if you want.” And—
- Yeah. I'm not really ready. I—
I enjoyed having her.
I figure, “Why not?
We can hold on to her, and just see how it kind of goes."
- We’re both falling in love with her a little bit more every single day.
We’re gonna be sad to give her back.
Which I guess kind of makes it— I don't know.
- It seems like, adoption seems more of the finish line at this point.
- Yeah. - You know, we like her in the house.
- Yeah. - And she seems to like being in the house.
- You comfortable now?
- She’s ours.
- Got some surprises for you today.
- Today, we are officially welcoming Juneau into our home.
- We’re gonna give her a real swell day.
Spoil her rotten. - You excited?
You want to get a toy?
What do you like?
[SQUEAKS]
- You want— what is that? No?
French fries?
You want some French fries?
Want some French fries?
Is that the one, Juneau? You want French fries?
- You have another surprise.
Oh, look.
- I think she was initially like, “Are you guys sure that I can eat this?”
'Cause she kept looking around like,
“Am I gonna get in trouble if I, like,
shove my face in this right now?”
Good girl.
You’re gonna have a pink nose.
- Thank you so much.
- Say, “We’re ready to check out.”
- Good girl. Bye, Juneau.
- Welcome home.
You got a lot of good stuff today, girlfriend.
- Officially, this is a Juneau household. - Did you have fun today, Juneau?
- Here. - We got you a cake.
- Come on. - Where are you going?
Want to have some of your French fries?
- Every day she’s around, it’s a blessing and it’s awesome.
And so we just want to make sure that every day
she’s super happy and is enjoying her life.
Whatever happened before us is to the wayside.
And she has us now to take care of her.
We just want to make sure that we’re always doing a great job of that.