What a wonderful story! And beautiful photos too. Thank you for sharing.
If you love rescue operation stories, my friend's boss's daughter runs the non-profit rescue organization
Hope for Paws, they create a lot of videos of their rescues, most of them tear inducing. But the matted and scared transformed to fluffy and happy on the couch is so wonderful to watch. They're good people too, they don't rescue to get recognition as rescuers like some of those Animal Planet people seem, they rescue to help the animals.
(If I were their post producer I'd cut the sappy music.
People who donate love it though, whaddya gonna do?)