Dog brought from JA to Mississauga

[Yvonne N.]

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Marley has a new place to call home

A lucky little dog.
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Thank you ma'am.

[kia027]

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[Tuff Gong]

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Jamaican dog finds a new home in Canada

BY KERIL WRIGHT Observer staff reporter
Monday, May 01, 2006

OCHO RIOS, St Ann - Three-year-old 'Marley', starving and injured, almost a month ago was seen scouring a beach in this tourist resort for food.

However, life changed last week as there was a remarkable turn in the life of the three-year-old dog as it boarded Air Canada flight 983 to Toronto.
Thanks to Lesley Ferrier, a visitor from Toronto, Canada, who met and fell in love with the little dog during her stay at the RIU Hotel from March 27 to April 2.

"I am very excited to see him again," Ferrier told the Observer last Thursday, an hour before she, accompanied by a television crew and newspaper reporters, arrived at the Lester B Pearson Airport in Canada to meet Marley. "I have not seen him since April 2," she said.

Ferrier said she met Marley, a name she chose to reflect his Jamaican roots, after four of her friends with whom she was vacationing in Jamaica saw the animal wandering on the beach one night and told her. "The next night the rest of us went down and saw him," she recalled. "After that we brought him food and water every night."

It was almost a given that she would adopt the animal as the night after her arrival back home Ferrier went online and found out there was an animal shelter in Ocho Rios and asked them to pick up the dog. "My friends think I am crazy," she joked. "No, they are very supportive."

She added that all her friends who were in Jamaica were excited that she adopted the Jamaican dog. "My family is very excited too; we are all dog people," she said.
"I live with two other dogs, so he'll have two sisters," Ferrier said in a telephone interview with the Observer from her Toronto home.

Ferrier said the other dogs - Tobi, a chocolate Labrador, and Murphy, a golden Retriever - will be sent away for a few days so that when Marley arrives he won't be overwhelmed. "I want him to get comfortable here before I introduce him to the other dogs," she said.
Marley has also left behind a host of newfound well-wishers here in Jamaica.

"I felt very sad when he was leaving," said Maureen Sheridan, operator of the Animal House - the animal shelter in the town where Marley had been staying for the past two weeks. "I almost cried when they took him away along the tarmac," she said.

"It took us five nights to catch him," she recalled. "We had to stay up very late and keep going back until we got to him," said Sheridan.
Marley stayed at the animal shelter for two weeks where he was fed and given medication for an infected wound on his foot while his paperwork was being looked about.

"Visitors are always calling us and asking us to rescue strays, but none of them have gone so far as to adopt one," said Sheridan, whose shelter now has 90 dogs. She also hopes that Marley's sudden fame will bring much-needed attention and help to the shelter, which is a charitable organisation and runs on donations.
"We need all the help we can get, especially volunteers," she said.
Jamaican dog finds a new home in Canada