Thread:Katlovr/@comment-27294075-20161007152416/@comment-27294075-20161008062501

Kat, do not apologize my friend. This is what you need at this time, and I enjoyed reading it. A part of your heart will stay with me from the lovely story you just shared. Thank you.

Yes, I still have the personalized feeding dishes for my shelties, Shelby and MissyAnn. I won't let any guest dogs eat from them. Of all the dogs I have owned, they are/were the most precious to me.

I do currently have a small dog given to me a couple of months after MissyAnn passed. My daughter rescued Mira from going to the pound. Normally I would not let someone else choose my pet.

She was not a very "social" dog at first, even though she was 3yrs. old. Actually, She was awful and I contemplated returning her to the pound. Then one day I realized what was wrong. She was traumatized by her previous owner...hopefully unintentionally. She had been kept in a cage like kennel for 12 hours a day while the owner worked, let out for awhile and returned to the kennel at night for sleeping.

Well, I let her stay out of her kennel all day (which was moved to our bedroom), and would put her back in at night next to my side of the bed. She was 3 years old peeing and pooping on my floors and jumped on my bed and peed on my comforter.

I know why now.....she didn't want to stop sitting in my lap all day and be put back in that kennel. The attention she was receiving all day long was new and she liked it! She was not having anything to do with that "wire room"....EVER!! We took a chance that night and pulled her on the bed between us to sleep, and sleep she did.....9 hours!! She stopped having PnP accidents in the house for the most part. After we got it across to her that this was unacceptable, the negative behavior stopped. She just needed love, and a lot of attention which we willingly gave her.

We named her Mira Sorvino after the actress. She is an 8 lb. Diva who is a daddy's girl. She loves me but prefers him to walk her and brush her, which broke my heart, so I call her mommy's lil "man ho". 😜 Check out her pic on my profile page❣

I gave her a big hug and a kiss....and an extra squeeze from you. She likes you already!😺

GEL😎