Jim, 4 years old

From: ccmarzano@COMCAST.NET
Subject: [KBL] one wonderful dog
Date: December 13, 2007 10:05:30 AM PST

I think I fell in love again last night, just like Jan thought I would.
Carol Cain, bless her heart, and I went to SeaTac Airport to pick up Jim,
but he didn't make the flight he was supposed to be on, so he came a while
later. When he arrived, we opened his crate door and a happy, but tired boy
waited for me to attach his leash and out he came with his tail up and happy
to see us. The workers at the cargo area though he was a beauty and so he
is! He's gorgeous and gentle as a lamb who wants to be held, all 41 pounds
of him. Thanks to Tracey Campanella he's clean, with a silky blue coat.
She was able to get all the mats out along with the nettles, burrs, weeds
and junk that filled his coat. He was also trimmed nicely so that we could
see that he really is a well put together male. I liked his balance and his
size, plus he even had clean- as-a- whistle teeth, the right length tail and
nice sized ears, although un-set. I can't say enough about the work Tracey
did to get him and the others ready for their flights. I would have been
pleased as punch to get a rescue in such wonderful condition.
Unfortunately, he isn't mine to keep and we traveled north to meet up with
Nancy Joyce who will foster him until his adoptive family is back from their
holiday trip.

I was glad to be able to help, but it was more pleasure than anything to
deliver a dog who is that nice and sweet.

Thanks to Linda Grisley for doing all the phoning to make it work, to Tracey
Campanella for the hard labor to get him ready and then putting him and the
others on their flights and to Jan Joers for putting all this together.
Nancy Joyce is an angel to foster him and to do this so willingly. I think
we all have cauliflower hears from the phone calls. Each call we got meant
at least 3 others to check with and get back to. It's so worth the trouble.
I can't thank Carol Cain enough for driving and being there, dropping
whatever she has planned to help with rescue. We also have great talks on
those long drives.

He's a wonderful dog-the kind we all want. He's just wonderful. And
another good thing about him: he's the sire of Pinky and Cleo, our rescue
puppies from last hear! We know where they got their good genes. How we
raise them is another thing!

I love this, can you tell?

Candi Marzano
Tacoma, WA

From: Linda Grisley
Subject: Update
Date: January 20, 2007 8:05:30 AM PST

Black Knight Jim – now Jim - has gone to live on Vancouver Island.