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HAPPY

HAPPY DANCES FOR JOY AT BEING FREE FROM HER BONDAGE!

HAPPY LOVES HER TOYS!

THE MANY HAPPY FACES OF HAPPY!

In March 2001, we adopted our Happy from PMR.

Now year number two has ended and we are still celebrating the day she became a member of our family. Happy and Tuffy are bonded together like no two dogs we have ever seen. He takes care of her and she follows him around and has to be in the same room at all times. He goes outside, she goes outside. Tuffy taught her how to be a pup and they adore one another to this day. Tuffy is an eye and ear cleaner and recently Happy has decided if he is going to clean her eyes and ears, she has to do him too. Tuffy doesn't really like this idea since he is the caregiver all the time and it is so funny when Happy hits him on the nose with her paw to make him lay down so she can wash his eyes. He is taller than she is and this is the only way she can do it. Usually, he will just give in and put his head on the floor and let her clean away when the mood strikes her.

Happy has come so far from the little waif we brought home from MO. She now sits when you try to pick her up, instead of scampering off just out of reach. She goes up to strangers and lets them pet her, instead of fleeing in fear. Just recently, she has started coming up to me at night when I am in the recliner and asking to be picked up and put in my lap for a little while. She loves attention and petting and playing, but Happy is not a cuddler and when she gets her fill, she will literally try to leap out of your arms. For this reason, we don't let anybody else hold her. Each day of each month of each year, she becomes the loving, secure, happy little pup she should have been from the day she was born. Her zest for life continues to grow and develop and she still runs outside as fast as her little legs can carry her, just delighting in running free. (Luckily, she has a big 1/2 acre, well fenced in back yard to run in). But, all we have to do is rattle the treat jar on the porch and she comes running to us.

She is our joy and our sunshine and our love. Her potty training isn't the best in the world even after two years. To her going outside means she gets to run and play and she sometimes forgets to go potty. : ) But, we forgive her and we know she tries and that's all that matters. She has her toybox in the living room and every day will go pick out a toy to play with and we have to throw it for her. Then, Tuffy will steal it and around and around they go behind the couch and through the living room and dining room. (Robin, if you are reading this, her most favorite toy is and has always been that blue bunny with the squeakers on both ends that you sent home with her in her goodie sack. I just know she remembers you as one of the first in her life to be kind to her and I think this bunny reminds her of you. We thank you for this.)

Happy is a very special little Pom and her name says it all. She is so very happy and she brings happiness to all who get to know her and be around her. Never a day goes by that we don't thank everyone at PMR who helped save this little angel and allowed us to make her a part of our family.

Linda & Dick & The Pom Pack
Tuffy, Happy (PMR), Wee Willy (PMR),
Wee Princess (SDR) & Little Duke (SDR)

Tomorrow, 2-17-02, will mark the one year anniversary that Happy was purchased at an auction by PMR and saved from her horrible life in the puppy mill. I wanted to celebrate the fact that she has been free for a year by resending the following write-up that describes her rescue. A very good friend of Happy's wrote this for her and it tells her story very well.

Cherry is lucky, she was rescued from the puppy mills at the tender age of two on February 17th, 2001. This is a young age for a dog to be free of the prison life of the puppy miller, but Cherry had to endure more pain and suffering than any dog should ever have to see.
It is possible Cherry was not a good breeding dog and failed to make her miller money. Her ears were either cut off next to her head to remove tattoos so her papers could be used for another dog or frozen during winter weather. Only Cherry and her past owner will know the answer to that.
Her little neck bears scars from a collar she had out-grown and was not removed.
With the sad life Cherry knew it is hard to believe she is the perky loving and trusting little dog she is today.
Now Cherry has a new name. Her name is like her, her name is Happy. She now has a real family and a Pom brother named Tuffy and they are the best of friends.

Dick and I brought Happy into our lives on 3-11-01 and from that day forward we promised that she would never be hurt again in any way by any body and we have fulfilled that promise to her. In addition, we promised to love and cherish her and provide the most wonderful home she could ever have and we have done that, too.

I am attaching a collage of pictures of Happy on the day of the auction and way she looks now. The eyes are the windows to the soul. Happy's eyes tell her story.

Please join us in celebrating Happy's first year of freedom and also join us in helping to provide freedom to many, many more like Happy.

Linda, Dick, Tuffy, PMR Happy, PMR Wee Willy, and PMR Foster Frannie
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PMR Foster Mom
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Each one.................reach one.....................