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Memories of Taxi

Some time in very early 2000, a cab was called to a residence. The driver picked up the fare, a man holding a very small puppy. The man asked the driver to take him to the forest preserve. For residents of the Chicagoland area, this would raise suspicion as unwanted animals are often abandoned in the forest preserves. Given the time of year and temperature, a small puppy would likely freeze to death very easily if left there. The cab driver drove along for awhile, looking at the man and the puppy in the rear view mirror. At some point, he reports getting a really bad feeling. "Look, mister", he said to the rider, "why don't you just give me that dog?". The man said, "o.k.". The driver drove him back home and he got out, leaving the puppy in the back seat. The cab driver then took the dog immediately to Anticruelty, in downtown Chicago. The staff there began calling her "Taxi" since she was delivered to them in a cab. Taxi was retrieved from Anticruelty by the Chicago German Shephard Rescue group and was placed in foster care. Around this same time (March of 2000), my husband and I decided we were ready for another dog, having lost our former female Shephard/Husky mix to old age and multiple illnesses some six months before. Andrew (my husband) saw a lovely male long coat Shephard on the German Shephard Rescue website and we went to see him. He was 100 lbs and only 9 months old, with piercing black eyes and black face. He was huge, very strong, completely untrained and really wild. For some reason I found him intimidating. Our previous dog was a rescue and had been badly treated. She was older when we got her and never warmed up to strangers. We couldn't trust her around children and had moved to a very friendy neighborhood with zillions of little kids. I really wanted a dog that could be social and more accepting of children. Taxi was scheduled to be adopted out the same day we went to look at the big male. She came in with her foster mom and was nothing but darling. The couple that were to adopt her never showed up. We thought this was strange as the adoption process was pretty grueling and took a lot of time and effort. Later we learned that they decided not to pick her up because they "got in a fight". We asked if we might be considered for adoption of Taxi, and we were approved. We picked up Miss Taxi on a really stormy night in early April of 2000. She was 4 months old and 24 lbs. She was scared and rode on my husbands lap the whole way home, wraped in a pink blanket with her head burried in his armpit as he drove. From the first night at our house until the day we had to send her up to heaven, she was the very best thing that ever happened to us. She was a lovely, beautiful, noble companion with a consistently good nature. She allowed the neighbor kids to grab at her and fuss over her without complaint. She put up with all our moods and idiosyncracies, loving us no matter what. We feel so lost without her - she really was the best of us. And we will love her forever.

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