Princess Sophie
Now that you met the boys, let me tell you about our girls. "Leah" was rescued from a puppy mill when she was about a year and a half. She was kept in a box and had no human contact. She had been adopted to a family but returned 6 months later because she woudn't "warm up" to the family. So the shelter wanted to adopt her into a home that already had a well adjusted dog hoping that maybe another dog would help her to learn what being a puppy really meant.
When we went to meet her she had a leash attached to her because it was the only way to get her out from under furniture where she hid all day. While Max played with "Leah's" foster dad the hubster and I sat with her. She sat between us shaking violently. I looked up at the hubster and I could tell that she was going to come home with us. We talked to her foster parents and officially adopted her. They would keep her till the end of the week. And then the hubster and I planned to take a day off each after the weekend so she would have someone in the house for the first four days in her new home.
When we went to get her that Friday evening the foster mom told us it was a good thing we were picking her up. Her husband was in love with "Leah". And had she stayed one more day she's not sure he could have let her go.
So we took her home and "Leah" became Sophie.
The hubster and I were prepared for a long term rehabilitation of this freightened little dog. But to our surprise she quickly became a little spit fire. Brave, social, and happy.
She went from 17 to 24 pounds, her baby fine coat filled in and became full and fluffy. Her hair even crimped in placed when it got wet. She got so much fur the hubster and I no longer worried about her during winter. We thought for sure she would need a coat and boots in order to go out in the Minnesota winter. But a little love and a little nutrition went a long way for her.
Sophie and Socrates fell in love and have been inseparable ever since.
I think the hubster and I have fallen a little in love with her ourselves.
4 comments:
She is absolutely gorgeous! What's her breed? What a face. Aren't pets/fur babies wonderful?
Take care
Tory
She's so cute. All most dogs need is somebody to love them and they can love back.
She knew she had a home and people to love and who would love her back. What a sweetie she is. I've loved these posts!
Tory - we were told she is a Sheltie/Dachshund mix. She does have the characteristics of both dogs. The puppy mill she is from was full of both types of dogs when they seized them. But Lily, the dog I have yet to talk about looks Papillon and is from the same place. Caleb, who I posted earlier about looks Sheltie/Brittany so Sophie could probably be a variety of some sort of Sheltie mix.
Jay: So very true
Kell: It's been fun posting about them since they are the love of my life.
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