[Rudys Mom]

" Hi " everyone. I would like to introduce the newest member of my furbaby family, Gracie!! We adopted her last Friday evening from the local Shih Tzu Rescue. Gracie is 10 years old and has a very sad story. The Rescue rescued her from a Puppy Mill. She spent her entire 10 years as a Puppy Mill dog in a small wire cage being bred over & over again. When the Rescue had her teeth cleaned by their vet, her jaw cracked because it was so brittle. Their vet fixed her jaw but she is still on medicine for that. Saturday morning, as I was feeding her, I accidently stepped on her paw. Till Saturday night, she held her paw up in the air and wouldn't walk on it. I thought maybe I had broken her little paw so Sunday morning we took her to the Pet Emergency Clinic. Turns out, no broken paw, thank god, but an infection in her paw & pawpad. She is on more medicine for that and we have to soak her paw in special solution 2-4 times a day. She has an appointment with our vet this Friday to have her paw checked out. It does look better, but still looks sore.

In all her 10 years she's never had a name. We named her Gracie because we thought by the grace of God, she will never have to spend another day in such horrible, horrible conditions. Whatever time Gracie has left, which I pray is many, many years yet, she will know the love of a family and be very well cared for.

Thanks for reading about Gracie. Since I don't know how to attach pics to my threads yet, click on Rudy or Lucky's Dogster Page and it will bring her pic up as a family member, then click on her pic and it will bring up her Dogster Page. I don't know why the link to her page is showing not found.