Lambert said she named the pups after Jessi Colter and Waylon Jennings, who she and her mom had been listening to when they pulled over to pick up the dogs.
"I took them straight to the vet and she told me that the little boy was not doing too well (malnourished and dehydrated ) because whatever they had found to eat while they were homeless, he always let her eat first. He did that nearly his whole life," Lambert wrote. "(The vet) said he probably wouldn’t make it but he did. For almost 13 years."
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOUR PET: Nearly 80 million U.S. households have a pet, and 42 percent of those households have more than one, according to a 2015-2016 survey by the APPA. There are 77.8 million pet dogs in the U.S. and 85.8 million pet cats.
"He was a rock in our family and always held down the fort," Lambert added. "He lived his life with no fences. The way we all want to live."
She went on to say she and her husband, Brendan McLoughlin, are heartbroken but thankful for the years they had together.“Dogs change your life,” she wrote. “The bond is something that can’t be described unless you have lived it.”
Lambert has long been a proud rescue dog parent, as well as other animals. She regularly shares photos of them on her social media.
