Latest Success Story: Dandy

FINE AND DANDY

Ever since she moved out of her parents’ home, Ashlee Jordan wanted to get a dog. “Unfortunately,” she explains, “housebreaking a puppy in a second-floor apartment wasn’t an option.” And when her family’s German shepherd, Jazmyn, suddenly fell ill last October, Ashlee was unable to visit her before she went in for exploratory surgery. “When she didn’t survive, I was devastated.”

A few months later, Ashlee and her boyfriend got a call from his family. They had found a dog—an English setter they guessed to be about five years old—abandoned at a gas station. “She was soaked to the bone in the middle of Michigan’s winter-spring transition,” remembers Ashlee. Her boyfriend’s family already had two large dogs, but the problem was easily resolved when the couple went over to meet the canine.

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