This is Sgt. Pepper, looking very stylish in his Yellow Submarine collar lives in Tulsa, OK. Mom, Kelli has a great story of how Sgt. Pepper came into their lives:"I found Sgt. Pepper on July 4th of this year right after the fireworks. My fiance, my brother, and I were walking into a restaurant when Pepper approached us in the parking lot. He was timid, but extremely obedient. He followed us until we reached the door.
As my fiance and my brother entered the building he crouched into a small corner by the flower shop next door. For some reason I felt it wrong to leave him, but there was no place he could go on a holiday weekend to keep him out of traffic. I stayed outside with him for almost thirty minutes looking for some kind of tag or owner.
I convinced my brother, who is also our roommate, to let us keep him overnight until the humane society would be able to take him in. Expecting him to be an outdoor dog, I was surprised when the next day there were absolutely no accidents.
The humane society would not take him in immediately due to a full facility. As the days went by we realized just how special Pepper was. He was completely house broken and showed us some of the tricks he was trained to do. Pepper never barked or growled at anyone he was just too grateful to be off the streets. He warmed everyone's hearts. People kept telling us how intelligent he looked and how lucky we are to have such a great and well behaved dog. We decided that there would be no harm in keeping him and, no one claimed him after all of our attempts. We had grown so fond of him that as the days went by we were hoping no one would.
I then decided to take him into our local vet to bring him up to date on all vaccinations. This is when our vet told me that he has had heart worm for quite some time. This explained to us why Pepper would never eat much if anything. It has been such a struggle to watch, but in the four months we've had him his heart worm is almost gone and he is a completely different dog. He's happy, which our vet thinks is something he hasn't been in a long time. His mannerisms in the beginning proved that he was possibly mistreated. Pepper is more than just a stray dog that we felt bad for, he's now the completion to my family."
