Happy 2nd Birthday Angelbabies!

I'm a day early (December 17th) to wish Angel's babies a happy 2nd birthday. I will not have time to post tomorrow on their actual birthday, December 18th. Angel had 6 beautiful puppies and she was barely still a pup herself at the time she delivered. Poor girl. But from what everyone has said, she was an excellent mother, despite her many hardships leading up to this day.

This is a pic taken way before I adopted Angel. It's a bit bittersweet for me to look at.

That little pup under her arm is Yofi, now Marley. What a cutie patootie he was and still is!

There's Val (now Samba) with Marley, hugging so sweetly next to Mama.

Thank you Nancy for these pictures I found online! All credit to you for capturing these special moments for me to share.

Enjoy your lives, puppies....well, technically adults now! :) Angel loves you all.

Iowa?

I have a fairly new friend on Facebook, and it turns out she is really involved in animal rescue. She advocates and supports those who rescue, and has her own menagerie of pets she has rescued as well. A couple of days before Thanksgiving, she posted a picture of a beautiful fluffy white dog..the spitting image of Angel. Someone had dropped off this sweet 7 month old "maltese mix" at a rescue facility that she supports.  As soon as I saw the picture, it took me back to last year at this time when we were prepared to take another dog into our home. The dog reminded me so much of Angel. I showed it to Steve and he immediately said, "let's go get him"! I smiled...honey, he's in Iowa! And he said to me, "And that's a problem?" I can't believe he was willing to drive over 12 hours to rescue a dog just because it looked like Angel!

I had hopes that because of his cuteness, someone would take him, and that's exactly what happened! I was so happy, until I saw another photo come up of a similar dog, similar age, only it had been so matted that the vet had to shave him. His eyes were so sad, and again, he looked just like Angel. My heart went out again. This one said that if no facility or person would take him, he would be put down by December 2nd. And again Steve said, "let's go get him!".  This time I agreed. I have no idea why. :)

But by the end of the day, the scruffy, bedraggled, shaven puppy had found a home for Thanksgiving! And I was happy for two reasons. One for the family that gave him a home, and two for not having to drive all the way to Iowa for a puppy we don't really need right now!!

We celebrated the good news by shopping for Angel's Christmas presents. She has sure softened our hearts toward fuzzy little white dogs! Who knows where we'll end up if we keep seeing these dog profiles!