Our Story

Hi,

Our names are Rocky and Caramel...At least that's what our foster family calls us. We haven't had those names very long. We got those names on Saturday, July 24.

We had been running the streets in Carbondale, Illinois for several days. That night, we were running from a woman who had seen us playing in the street. We weren't sure what she was up to, but we knew that we didn't want HER to catch us.

The sun had started to go down, but we could see that there was a woman with a tall slender dog walking towards us. We thought about running from them, too, but that thin dog....She was beautiful. We couldn't take our eyes off of her. When we caught up to them, we decided to socialize with the thin lady dog (later we learned that she is called a saluki and we are supposedly staffordshire terrier/basset hound mixes). Anyhow, the human lady looked nicer than the one who had been chasing us all over town...We decided to take our chances and follow the saluki...

We followed the saluki lady all the way to her house, and decided that we should wait outside her door until she came back outside. We were already in love with her, and therefore prepared to wait a long time...Then something strange happened...The salukis owner put a leash on us and took us inside her home...