The Three Chis

So tonight is a somber night at our house.  We welcomed Annabelle into our home just over three months ago.  Annabelle was a "stray" that ended up in the Martinez shelter and spent three lonely weeks in the back room.  She is such a social little dog that those days alone in a kennel must have seemed like eternity.  She was just 8.5 lbs when she arrived and she was battling a terrible case of kennel cough.  Her fur was sparse and her weak little hips were very very weak.  But when she arrived late July 6th, her tail was wagging!  The 3 Chis descended on her and sniffed every where but she calmly endured the initiation.  And that was that, she was a part of the pack that very night.

We love having Annabelle in our home.  She has those wobbly little hips and yet, she never lets that slow her down.  She loves hiking Pulgas Ridge with the rest of the pack.  She may bring up the rear but she NEVER gives up.  Her walk is hard to describe.  Its like a shuffle.  The back legs don't seem to bend.  They seem to almost glide.  Whatever those little legs do or don't do, Annabelle still runs and wrestles and loves every minute that she has on her Pulgas Ridge hikes and Sea Port excursions.  And then there is her crazy little grunty coo.  You can hear Annabelle's gurgling little sounds as she runs at Napoleon and chases him until he agrees to wrestle. 

Annabelle was given a second chance.  She was close to being euthanized.  And then MaryAnn Lovi found her and found us and within hours, that little dog came into our lifes.  We have changed her life and she has changed ours.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE this little dog.  I will miss her very much but thanks to Annabelle, I will foster more special needs dogs.  Good bye Annabelle.  Yes, I will remember you...

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