The Story of

AIJO

It all started with a dog at the Miami Dade Animal Shelter.  He had a broken leg and was waiting his turn to be put to sleep. 

Grace Acosta saw him among the dogs 'waiting' and asked why was he there.
"Look at his leg", the shelter supervisor said.

The shelter did not know what was wrong with the leg and the shelter had no way of finding out as they did not have an x-ray machine.  Grace asked permission to take him to a clinic to have the x-rays done and it was granted. 
But, Grace on her second visit changed her mind and left him there.

On a third visit to the kennel Grace found out that this dog was still alive! 
Again, she left him.
 It was that night that someone posted to the Internet about a dog up north who had been thrown out of a car. A patrolman picked him up and surgery was performed on his chattered legs.   

Grace felt guilty for abandoning this dog and left a message that same night on the shelter's voice mail, 
"If the Rottweiler with the broken leg was still alive, please don't kill him.  I will pick him up tomorrow", she said.

He was picked up, taken to Tropical Park Animal Hospital and x-rays showed an old injury with nerve damage.  The leg had to go.

HE WAS NAMED
CHANCE

Chance went to live at Grace's motorhome.  She had no room in the house for him. The motorhome was parked outside her home and it became the air-condition "condo" where Chance lived.   He was good & he was never put in a crate. He had the run of the motorhome and his favorite place was "his" sofabed.

Soon there was a Guardian Angel sent.  Marie Zeak called Grace to chat and she found out about Chance.  She promised to look for a home for him.  Two days later she called and said that she had found a home for Chance...
IT WAS THE ZEAK'S HOME!

Chance's name was changed to
AIJO

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