Azzie – Home for the Holidays
Azzie’s story is truly one of miracles. He was rescued from a high kill filthy shelter in NC in Spring of 2009 and shortly after was adopted by a family in GA. Everything was going just fine for several months; however in late fall, the family reported Azzie had run away and their efforts to locate him had been fruitless.
Ga Aussie Rescue volunteers received the urgent message that Azzie was missing and kept our eyes on the local lost and found and shelter sites in hopes that he would be located and reunited with his ARPH foster home Kelley in NC.
In mid December, GA Rescue Coordinator for New Spirit received a message from a shelter over forty miles away from where Azzie disappeared. Rachael Eley was eating breakfast with a friend who was visiting and stopped cold and immediately pulled up the ARPH Carolina site and started comparing the shelter dog’s photo to the lost dog listing on the www.carolinasaussies.net. She showed the photo to her friend and both agreed this was the same dog.
After that, things happened pretty quickly as Rachael contacted Kelley the foster home, Robin the representative for ARPH in SC/NC and the intake coordinator for New Spirit Michelle saying that she really felt this was Azzie. Michelle drove over 40 miles to pick him up from the shelter and see him to safety. She said Azzie was the most stressed dog she has ever pulled from a shelter.
New Spirit volunteers Gary and Emily just so happened to be traveling to NC with their 
Aussie Wil and New Spirit foster dog Ivy and agreed to help this boy on his final adventure. He was delivered into the loving arms of his foster home two days before Christmas. His foster Mom Kelley was sure to point out to Azzie that he in fact is not a cat and doesn’t have 9 lives.
Azzie has been saved not once, but twice from certain death. First from a high kill shelter in NC and secondly from a high kill shelter in Ga. How he wandered so far from home will always be a mystery. But this is one resourceful pup who has kept his red chin up the entire time and never lost his fun outlook on life.
This is one amazing adventure and a true testament that rescue doesn’t have state lines. Volunteers from two separate Aussie Rescue groups reached across state lines to save a dog’s life and see him back into the loving home who rescued him the first time.