Missy_poodle

Missy

This tiny itsy girl was making puppies in a puppymill for almost 8 years of her life! Look at that first picture of her - can you even tell she is a poodle? No teeth (except her 2 fangs), very wary of people.....my husband and I fell madly in love with her the very second PMR released her picture. We were approved for her and could not stop jumping up & down & squealing with glee!!! She arrived in October of 2000. I went to pick her up at the airport and this big hard looking guy said it would take awhile for her to make her way up to pickup. When I got back, he asked me if I had seen her yet. I said no, he reached down, held her close to him and that big hard looking guy turned into JELLO and asked me for her story. I was jello too!!!! I couldn't hold her tight enough. Her teets were still swollen a bit from nursing, you could see the whites of her eyes, - she was scared & confused. She turned 8 on December 6, 2000, a day before my own birthday!!

With tons of TLC and a stable environment, she is a happy sweet girl - still a bit wary of people, but doesn't completely freeze up anymore. We tell her all the time that she can be a puppy now instead of caring for puppies anymore. She will come up and sniff you if you are patient & calm. The picture of her on the blanket was taken about 3 months after we got her - it was the first time she willingly showed us her belly for a rub! I was elated.

She is one of the 4 lights of our lives - my husband is her slave! Those little frail ones just turn him to mush.

Thank you Jean and PMR for your compassion & determination and for my Battina and Missy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dottie Culbreath
Jax., Florida