Although Marianne and Michael Brown of Sandy Hook were looking to adopt a Brittany, they probably did not expect they would be finding one so far from home. Like, in Texas.
Although Marianne and Michael Brown of Sandy Hook were looking to adopt a Brittany, they probably did not expect they would be finding one so far from home. Like, in Texas.
Thatâs right, Charlotte Daisy Belle â the Brownâs new Brittany â was recently flown from Plainview, Texas, courtesy of the Plainview Humane Society. The dog had been found wandering the streets of Plainview without tags and was housed at a local shelter.
It was happenstance that led the Brownâs to their new family member.
âMy husband wanted to buy one from a breeder, but I made him a deal,â said Mrs Brown, a tax accountant and bookkeeper, in an article published in The Plainview Daily Herald. âI told him if I can find one to rescue thatâs a really nice dog, we would get it. Iâm involved in rescuing. I adopt out of high-kill shelters, get them healthy and adopt them out to families,â
The only problem? Well, there were very few Brittanys available in the northeast. The Browns had their eye on one animal, but another family snatched the dog right up.
And so that led them to the Internet and eventually to www.petfinder.org, a site that links up shelters rescue organizations all across the country. While Mrs Brown was not looking for a purebred Brittany, she was hoping to find one close to the AKC standard and searched through 48 states until she found one.
Mrs Brown spotted a few Brittanys, but received a cooperative response from Nikki McCarthy and the Plainview Humane Society, who was willing to put the animal on an airplane in order to find her a new home.
The animal was spayed by Dr Joe Stockett of Town and Country Animal Clinic and then taken by Dennis Johnston to Lubbock International Airport. The first stop on the American Airlines flight was in Dallas-Forth Worth before the longer trip to LaGuardia International Airport in New York with the eventual stop in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
The adoption fee was $50.
The plane ticket (freight) was $168.
Michael Brown, deployed with the military at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, met Belle at the airport last week. The animal was a little rattled from the flight, but calmed down soon enough and then was off on the two-hour drive home to meet her new family ⦠which includes four-year-old Nicholas, two-year-old Michael Jr., and Katie the black Labrador/Irish setter mix.