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Gasp! It's me!
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But there's the real Dru!
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Well done
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Melissa asked on the comments of one of
my previous vlogs this month,
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if I've told the story of Dru, how I got
Dru. And I probably have but it doesn't
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hurt to tell it again.
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It was August 2004. It had
been a little while since I lost my
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previous dog to heartworm disease.
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I was missing having a dog in my life so
I started looking on various pet
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adoption websites and craigslist and I
checked in with my girlfriend at the time,
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Carrie, with photos of the dogs that I
liked and she liked a few of them but
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then I send her a photo of this dog,
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this one, and Carrie said, "Oh! This,
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this is the one. You should get this dog!"
The photo came from a craigslist ad. A couple
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had found this dog in Druid Hill Park, a
part of Baltimore. She was tied to a post
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covered in cuts and bruises and they
were doing interviews with people who
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are interested in adopting her.
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They already had a few dogs, which is why they
couldn't keep her for themselves. They had
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her set up in the kitchen and were
interviewing people.
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Apparently, most of the people who had come to
check Dru out had been met with
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growls and snaps and just general
disapproval from Dru.
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But when I came in and I sat down and I
just waited, she came over to me and was
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very friendly with me! She had been named
Druidzilla, the monster of Druid Hill Park,
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but to me she was always just Dru.
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I feel like the fact that of all the people
came to interview to adopt her,
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she came to me and was friendly with
me, means she kind of chose me instead of the
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other way around.
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When I adopted her the vets suspected that she
was about a year old.
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She had not been spayed yet, so that was the first
thing that we did. The life expectancy
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for a dog like Dru is probably about 10
years, so I've been very lucky and i hope
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that i keep on being lucky for a while.
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I've already won!
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Dru!
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[laughter!]
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so that's my vlog for today, all about
Dru, today. Even have a shirt with Dru
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on.. on it!
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Leave me some comments about my adopting
Dru story down below or tell me
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anything that matters to you, because I
want to know what matters to you.
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Thank you for watching my dog vlog today,
here at the end of the video is where I
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always say:
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Tomorrow
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will be even better!