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Ferral’s shelter is busy rescuing stray cats and dogs. Ferral becomes concerned about a stray brown dog who is looking skinnier everyday, who they’ve seen running the streets. The rescue team decides to rescue her for her own good. But the rumor is-this dog, Gossy, is the fastest dog around, and no once can catch her! They want to enact a rescue-but first they have to FIND her! No onc has ever been able to catch her before! Also, Zacuzzi’s daughter, Trixie , who just started as a senior at Feline and Fido High, encounters the bad problem of bullying! She starts an anti-bullying group-will it work? AND the shelter roof is leaking badly when it rains; can someone come up with ten grand to fix it? Trixie goes to a Miss Teen Dog contest, just as Gossy runs away. Will they ever be able to find Gossy again?

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	14 décembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669858515
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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These two pics are of our little group called “The Walking Stix”. We walk every morning in St. Ferdinand Shrine in Florissant, Mo. with various dogs and people. From left to right on pic one, myself, Kay, Mark, and Sue. On pic 2 we have myself, Sue, Kay, Theresa, and Ken, who has a little dog, Augie. Mark’s dog, Bella, passed away about a year ago. We enjoy each other’s company and get exercise at the same time. I am dedicating my bo ok to these dear friends.
Movin’ Back!
The Story of Gossy
Book # 5 in the Movin’ Series

Jerry S. Hutter

Copyright © 2023 by Jerry S. Hutter.

Library of Congress Control Number:
2022922480
ISBN:
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978-1-6698-5853-9

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978-1-6698-5852-2

eBook
978-1-6698-5851-5

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Rev. date: 12/14/2022

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Contents
Dedication
Prologue The True Story of Gossy!
Chapter 1 School Days, School Daze!
Chapter 2 If at First You don’t succeed—
Chapter 3 Do Unto Others—
Chapter 4 Operation Lightening Dog!
Chapter 5 Meet the Parents!
Chapter 6 Planning the Plan
Chapter 7 The Elusive Gossy!
Chapter 8 Reconnaissance!!
Chapter 9 Friends!
Chapter 10 Cherchez la Femme!I!
Chapter 11 Operation Lightening dog II !
Chapter 12 Trixie Goes to High School!
Chapter 13 Gossy at the Shelter.
Chapter 14 Beauty is as Beauty does!
Chapter 15 Gossy Comes Out of her Shell!
Chapter 16 The Interview
Chapter 17 The Search Is On!
Chapter 18 Contesting the Contests!
Chapter 19 Gossy Gets a Job!
Chapter 20 Trixie Plans to Try Out!
Chapter 21 Trixie Tries Out!
Chapter 22 Back in Class.
Chapter 23 Poster Proliferation!
Chapter 24 Bored (of) Meetings!
Chapter 25 An A-team Rescue!
Chapter 26 Drip, Drop, Drippedy Drop!
Chapter 27 A Daring Rescue!!
Chapter 28 Trixie and Gossy Team up!
Chapter 29 Bake Sale!
Chapter 30 Trixie Hits the Capitol!
Chapter 31 Adopted!!!!!
Chapter 32 Rehearsal Day!
Chapter 33 Not All Who Wander Are Lost!
Chapter 34 The Searchers!
Chapter 35 By the Skin of Her Teeth!
Chapter 36 Contest Day!!
Chapter 37 Contest # 2!!!
Chapter 38 Celebrate! Celebrate! Dance to the Music!!
Dedication
For my Walking Stix friends-Kay, Sue, Theresa, Ken and Augie, Mark R. & the late Bella. And my park friend, Mark.
For “Aunt” Joan Benson, my biggest fan! I’m so happy you enjoy my books! Here’s to another year ‘young!’
To Gossy’s foster Mom, Leah, who loved and cared for her for a year before she so generously gave her to me. And To Donna from Stray Rescue, who originally rescued Gossy with a net and also never stopped searching for her after she got lost.
And finally, to the sweetest, little introverted but wonderful “street” dog, Gossy, who truly IS and forever will be “The Queen of Our Hearts!”
Whenever I walk the trail at West Tyson Park, I still call Gossy’s name.
Prologue
The True Story of Gossy!
Gossy is a real dog! Yes, she was my girl! But only for a few short months. Here’s her story-what I know of it.
Gossy had been on the streets for 8 years in the city of St. Louis. Stray rescue, an amazing rescue organization in the city of St. Louis started by the awesome Randy Grim who loves dogs more than life itself, worked to try to rescue her for a long time.
She was too fast! She was scared of people and ran so fast no one could ever catch her!
Donna from Stray Rescue finally managed to catch her by using a net. They managed to catch her 24 hours before she gave birth to puppies! I would have loved to see how pretty they were!
Gossy lived with her foster Mom Leah and her family for about a year before I got her. She was painfully shy and introverted, but got used to the family’s people and their 2 Great Danes. She would come out once a day or so, greet everyone extremely briefly and go back into her “safe place” – her crate. She had a very roomy open wire crate she felt safe in. She also loved her daily walks.
When I met her, she was very shy as was her M. O., but she came out and laid on the rug near me. I sat next to her on the floor and petted her. She just sat there. You honestly couldn’t really tell what she was thinking, but Leah said it was unusual for her to come over to me at all.
When Leah brought her to my house to meet my dog Glenda, who was also a rescued street dog from Stray Rescue, she found a rug in the hallway and plopped down on it. She seemed to like it there!
While we were talking in the living room, she came out to me and sat next to me on the floor. Again, unusual for her, Leah said, so I felt quite privileged. The dogs would sit right next to each other. They were both brown and looked so cute together! They actually looked like sisters, although Gossy had more of a pit face! They seemed to be little “soul mates”; no words were spoken, but you could see and feel the connection!
For our two months together we walked a variety of trails and parks nearby. Every day! First I couldn’t get Gossy in the car. She was scared of the car and not having anything to do with it! So we walked around Florissant. One time we walked for 3 hours, and I picked up trash everywhere we went. Then I stopped at a couple of dumpsters to empty my overflowing trash bags, and Gossy would pull away-she didn’t even like the large dumpsters! (a little different than the book!)
On that fateful day, the coronavirus was just starting to shut everything down. Restaurants, schools, and movie theaters were closed and the weather was great so beside us, half of St. Louis County turned out in the parks. It was April 1 st , 2020.
We had just hiked this semi-difficult trial, and somehow I ended up on the Chubb trail instead of the Flint trail I had started on. We went down a large hill of steep rocks like stair steps and ended up in a field instead of the parking lot I thought we’d be back at! We had probably done about 4 miles and I was tired of walking. Realizing we had to go back the way we came now, we started up the big steep hill of “steps made of rocks.”
When we got to the top of the steep hill, 3 boys were passing on bikes. They were a bit loud as boys will be, and Gossy suddenly got scared and tried to take off. She ran around a small tree. I had a hold of her leash, but I let go to grab the leash on the other side of the tree. I thought I had it-but I didn’t! My other hand was busy with Glenda and the poop bag.
Somehow I missed her leash and she ran ahead about 20 feet and stopped.
“Gossy!” I yelled “Gossy. “ Glenda always stops when I yell her name.
Not Gossy! Loud noises and voices scared her and even though I thought she wouldn’t be scared of my voice. She took off like a bat out of hell.
She runs amazingly fast! Like LIGHTENING ! Unbelievable! As my heart mounted with fear, I saw her little ears bobbing as she streaked forward on the trail, rounded a curve, and then out of site. I passed two people who said they tried to grab her seeing the trailing leash but “she was too fast!”
Months of going to the park every day, then every other day, then weekly-posters were posted for miles around by me and Donna, info posted on lost dog web sites. Donna from stray rescue even started Gossy’s own Facebook page – “Finding Gospel!”
The most moving time came the following Sunday when I decided to try the woods across from the park. I turned and there was her foster mom Leah going by in her van! I talked to her a few minutes! Then the next 2 cars – a woman and then a man-all looking for Gossy!
A day or two later I was walking the trail calling her name for it seemed like the hundredth time. My cell phone rang when I got to a beautiful overlook – she’d been spotted on the road in front of the park!! I ran the rest of the trail to the front of the park which was about a mile! I looked up and down the road, got in my car, and drove slowly around the area. I went down the short dead-end road that leads to a small ancient old cemetery. Another SUV was there. I rolled down my window and started to ask the lady if she’d seen a small brown dog.
It was Donna from stray rescue! Always looking for Gossy. She was the one who caught her initially with the net.
The first day she was spotted by a man who owned a nearby farm who also tried to get her but she kept running from him. He put out a bowl of food that night but it remained uneaten the next day. He let volunteers from stray rescue search his farm. Donna had volunteers with drones come out to search over the woods. There are thousands of acres of woods in Eureka, Missouri near the Meramec River.
Everyone who ever met Gossy