Maggie's Fairy Tail

Hello, dear friends, I’m Clever Mason of Fox Haven. I’m here to tell you a story, a heartwarming tale of joy and cheer. So pull up a comfy chair and listen to the true fairy tale of a princess named Maggie.

Once upon a time, a little yellow puppy came into this world, and, as puppies do, she grew and she grew, bigger and bigger. One day, the young yellow dog found herself far away from home and in serious trouble, abandoned and alone in an animal shelter up north.

Sick, dehydrated, and emaciated, the forlorn yellow dog prepared to die. She watched and waited as people walked by her kennel, hoping that someone would stop and claim her. No one did. Strangers hurried past, averting their eyes from the dog’s gaunt body and sunken eyes. She heard someone say, “That Yellow Lab’s going to die soon—put her on the list for next Monday, if she makes it until then.”

Then a gentle voice said, “Poor girl. You need help. Hang in there. I’ll be back!” A wonderful young dog trainer named Rebecca Dence, vacationing in the area, happened to walk into the shelter at exactly the right moment. Rebecca called her friend Sue Hinz, the Yellow Lab foster mom for Safe Haven Humane Society. Sue called Beth Wellman at the Ionia County Animal Shelter.

The three fairy Dog Mothers waved their magic wands and saved the sick, scrawny yellow dog from certain death that weekend. But the fragile yellow dog suffered from heartworm and starvation; her life hung by a thread. Sue welcomed the sick yellow dog into her heart and into her home, as did I.

You see, dear friends, I was once a Safe Haven foster dog, too, until Sue adopted me as her own. When Sue introduced me to the “new girl,” I gasped, horrified and shocked—a walking skeleton. Then I looked into her gentle brown eyes and saw hope, trust, and a strong will to live.

“What’s your name?” I asked softly. She replied, “Maggie,” smiling and wagging her tail happily. I loved her at first sight.

Sue carefully fed Maggie a special diet, and she bloomed from forty-eight pounds to almost ninety pounds. A kind friend, Julie Bukrey, paid for Maggie’s heartworm treatment, from which Maggie fully recovered. And I became Maggie’s best friend forever.

Like all fairy tales, Maggie’s story had a happy ending—Chad and Anne Hiller adopted Maggie and gave her a loving forever home.

Dear friends, fairy tales can come true. Princess Maggie will live happily ever after, thanks to people like you.

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