I'm a sucker for dog stories with happy endings. Here's one about a family of four dogs that appears to have been rescued by a Chicago-area family after their owners were killed in a motorcycle crash on Labor Day weekend.
The dogs belonged to Mike and Susan Kelms, who died last month but whose wishes were that the dogs be kept together if anything happened to them. Now it appears a family is willing to take them in, said Kathy Deets of the Chicago Canine Club in Burr Ridge, located southwest of Chicago.
Many villages in the area have a limit of three dogs per house, but Deets' club has worked hard to make sure the Kelms' dogs stay together. There's another problem: Their new adoptive family has owned dogs in the past but never more than one at a time.
"The family has not made a decision yet," Deets told the Web site Chicagobreakingnews.com in an email last week, "but things are going well."
Here's hoping the family chooses to keep the dogs. My wife and I have three Dachshunds and are about a welcome a rescue Greyhound to our family. We're proof it can be done.
