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How I came to have Bella in my life:

I was home one night, checked my twitter page and my sister had retweeted this message from lifesapet:

Very Small Spayed Female Chihuahua Needs Rescue/Adoption At Pasadena AC and this photo: 

Bella Alone In The Shelter

Something about this photo hit me in a big way. She looked so vulnerable and eager and scared, all at the same time, naked in the corner, trying to smile. I saw the tweet on Sunday, Dec. 27^th, called the Shelter on Monday the Dec.28^th, and drove to L.A. on Tuesday the 29^th and brought her home to San Diego. 

We have a 20 year old Burmese cat. Sunshine and an eight year old larger Chihuahua, Frankie, who was from a breeder/hoarder situation and rescued by Best Friends Animal Society. We adopted Frankie six years ago. Bella is very young, still a puppy in a lot of ways but she’s a good girl. We are getting her used to going for walks along the ocean and the bay in the coastal community where we live. I have an antiques business in a beach town where Bella and Frankie go to work with me each day. Bella already has the routine down. She gets a lot of attention from customers, as she sits on her chair playing with her toys or her bully sticks or sleeping. The good part is she is never alone. She loves to tuck in under the covers at night. She gets scared if I leave her alone in a room so she shadows me everywhere I go. One day she’ll understand that this is her forever home and that I’m not going to leave her. She has put on weight so her ribs and spine are no longer exposed and she’s up to a whopping 5 lbs! She doesn’t walk like she’s a crab anymore, slinking on the ground with her legs splayed out. I’d never seen that before. She hardly knew how to walk and would stumble and trip or her legs would go out on her.She walks like a little trooper now.  I read her medical records and couldn’t believe what she had been through, dumped on the street, how she made it alive, who knows? She was dehydrated, lethargic, underweight and about to give birth to one very large, deformed pup born dead. She had the still birth in the middle of the night when no one was there to help her. It was hard on her and she had wounds to heal. It’s amazing to me that she’s alive.

I love this little dog more than I can say and she can feel it. She is so appreciative the way she looks at us. She touched my heart and found her way to us via Twitter.

She loves her life today – her walks, her trips in the car to work, her sprawling lawn where she can run around free as much as she likes and do what dogs do. She loves raw bones, bully sticks, her stuffed toys, prancing when I put her in a sweater but most of all, loves to be snuggled and to give kisses. The hard part of her life is behind her. I owe a big thank you to Caryn for posting Bella’s photo on Twitter, allowing Bella to reach out and touch someone’s heart.

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