Bridget and Galen Samson, innkeepers at Lambert’s Cove Inn, on Martha’s Vineyard, took into their care a pup named Cait, who was found to have congenital heart defects. Running around chasing dogs and sheep on a farm would have meant an early death for Cait. Instead, she is an adored ‘inn dog’ at the upscale Lambert’s Cove Inn.

Cait was recently featured in the Vineyard Gazette with her fellow greeter, Pearl.

Cait almost didn’t get the chance to join Bridget and Galen. At 10 weeks old she was lost for 4 days and nights in snow and freezing cold in the Dartmouth Woods with her littermate Gunner before being found by Dartmouth Ph.D biology students on a Thanksgiving Day hike. A miracle!

I find patience hard. Not my nature.

…but it is amazing how the right things seem to turn up if I wait. And there was no more right for Cait than Bridget and Galen.