In Healing in Memory of Sheba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the first year of her short life, Sheba loved running, playing, jumping and just being an ordinary wolf-dog. And she was one smart cookie! Her favorite toys were anything that squeaked. When she and her owner, Jane, would play, Jane would tell her "no, I want this toy or that toy", and Sheba would race back to the pile and inevitably pick the correct toy and bring it back.
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheba loved to go, go, go. One of her favorite destinations was the beach, running and playing in the warm salt water and racing the waves. And she'd always find a souvenir to bring back home with her whether it was a stick or a shell. Everything Sheba did, she gave 110%. She was very fast and loved to run. Sometimes she would want to walk 8 miles a day!


Sheba also had a human side to her. She loved to sleep and sometimes she just didn't want to get up in the mornings. She loved people and she loved to give kisses. Whenever she wanted or needed something from you, she'd gently nuzzle you in an unobtrusive way to let you know. And it was uncanny sometimes how Sheba could sense emotions. She was almost like a sponge - watching and learning. She was so well behaved and quiet that she could go just about anywhere with her master, Jane, even to local restaurants. One time she went on a horse and buggy ride in Galveston!
 
Sheba could be quite shy too. During her first week of doggie daycare, she hid in the corner until finally, Duece, one of the other daycare doggies, noticed her reticence and enticed her out of the corner to play. It wasn't long before she made fast friends with Duece and her fellow playmates. Duece became one of her best friends and they'd share play dates.

 

                      Sheba & Duece at play


Sheba was a beautiful wolf-dog with colorings of gray, black and white. Her heritage was 29% white German Shepherd and 71% wolf. She turned all white on her first Christmas, except for the beautiful markings on her face. And it wasn't only her gorgeous physical features that grabbed you when you saw her, Sheba also had a mysterious look to her that told you with no doubt that she was here in this short lifetime on a special mission.
 
My first glance of Sheba was when she walked into CenterPoint on New Year's Day with Jane. By then, Sheba was a very ill dog, but you'd never have known it just by looking at her. She still carried herself with grace and dignity. Jane had brought Sheba into CenterPoint that day hoping to find comfort and healing for her beloved wolf-dog.

 

The unthinkable happened one afternoon while Sheba was outside in her backyard playing. Someone, for reasons unknown and still not known today, maliciously poisoned Sheba. The vet said the culprit was anti-freeze. The poison quickly entered her system and made her terribly ill. It was touch and go for a while but Sheba was a fighter. She had a spirit that told Jane in no uncertain terms every day that she wanted to live.
 
Donna and Ronnie, two of our Reiki Master students, were at CenterPoint that afternoon and were honored to be able to share their Reiki healing with Sheba. Ronnie's animal totem is the wolf and she said that working on Sheba made her feel as if she were completing some sort of mystical circuit with her own wolf spirit guides. She knew she'd treasure that opportunity for a lifetime.

 

Jane was astonished and amazed at how much the treatment helped. It prompted her to find a Reiki practitioner close to her home in Kemah and continue getting Reiki sessions for Sheba.
 
When Jane came to us in May as a Reiki student, we were heartbroken to learn that Sheba had lost her battle with the poisoning on April 14th. The vet said that Sheba was a miracle dog. Any other animal, he said, would never have lasted as long as she did. Sheba had fought a long 4 month battle with the poison that would eventually take her life, but her battle was not without purpose. She was a miracle dog in more than one way.
 
Thru Sheba, Jane commenced her own path into healing. She saw the comfort Sheba received from Reiki and decided she wanted to learn how to share that healing with others and hopefully, go on to help heal other sick animals who might need healing. 
 
The loss of Sheba also led Jane to seek out other ways to honor her memory.  Jane researched the local area and found a wolf-dog and wolf rescue in Montgomery, Texas called Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary. She began making plans to contact the sanctuary and become a volunteer. Jane knew that lending a helping hand to the rescue and possibly even providing emotional or other types of healing thru Reiki to the animals there who have suffered so much would help to ease her own grief.
 
Since that day, things have, well... snowballed to say the least. Jenny, the director of CenterPoint, agreed to put out a donation jar for the sanctuary. Those who've heard about Sheba's story and have seen her pictures have opened their hearts and the donations have started coming in.   
 

 

Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary provides a permanent home where captive born wolves and wolf-dogs may live out the rest of their natural lives safely and comfortably with loving care and attention. They do not breed, sell or trade any animal that is in their care.

 

 

 

To learn more about The Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary, you can visit them online at http://www.wolvesofsaintfrancis.com
 
The donations received by the sanctuary go to the care, feeding and medical expenses of the animals.

If you'd like to make a donation in memory of wolf-dog Sheba to help St. Francis Wolf Sanctuary, click the Paypal button below or send a check made out to Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary to Spirit Quest Associates, Attn: Chris & Ginger Pennell, 3810 Broken Elm Dr., Spring, Texas 77388. We can also accept donations at CenterPoint. Every dollar counts!

We'll see to it that Jane gets your donation to present to the sanctuary in honor of Sheba's memory. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

 

 

 

 

 

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