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After finding a post about her on Facebook, Gary Tashjian,
CEO of Darwin’s, offered to foster Maci from Seattle Golden Retriever Rescue.
Other people had opted to adopt her, so Gary’s request to
foster her was put on the back burner. A week later, Gary received a message
back letting him know that all the people interested in adopting Maci had opted
out due to how bad of shape she was in at the time.
“They were afraid they would have to put her down,” Gary
said.
When Maci first came to stay with Gary, she weighed 92 lbs
and was overweight for her breed. Maci had a condition called hypothyroidism,
meaning her metabolism was too slow to keep up with daily intake of calories.
The excess weight she was carrying prevented her from
visiting upstairs and bounding around with her new foster sister, Molly.
Maci’s fur was course and shed quite heavily, leaving behind
piles of fur whenever she was pet. Her tail and hind legs were bald.
She had built-up skin on her elbows from lying outside on
the concrete for years, a habit, Gary said, that was hard to break.
Despite her health issues, Gary said she was a sweetheart
from the beginning, with warm brown eyes and a tail that never ceased wagging.
Gary knew that a change in her diet and medication was
imperative to improving her condition and her life.
“I mean, she’ll eat anything, but we feed her Darwin’s beef
and turkey,” Gary said.
Hypothyroidism medication was also a key to kickstarting her
path to a more energetic, healthy life.
Over the months, the weight came off, and Maci showed off
her improvements every day.
Running after balls and wrestling with her sister, Molly,
were no longer long-distance goals.
Maci quit leaving white dandruff marks on the carpet and she
stopped shedding chihuahua-sized fur balls.
In the office, Maci was quick to bond with other office dogs
and staff.
“She could barely walk when she showed up, now she’s running
around with all the other dogs,” Darwin’s team member Birtha said.
Many in the office were
convinced that Maci would be sticking around longer than a foster dog, and they
were right!
Maci was officially adopted by Gary on August 13th,
2019.
Gary admitted, “We had a hunch from the beginning that she
would become a part of our family.”
As Maci’s folded into both Gary’s and Darwin’s families, her
warm demeanor has captured the hearts of everyone she wanders up to looking for
pets and treats.
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