My husband says no more animals every time I bring one home. My first yorkie is now 17 1/2 yrs old. We just lost our 2nd yorkie at 16 yrs in March and she was wild about my husband. She had a daughter, Abbey that we lost 3 years ago due to a severly collapsed trachea, heart disease and lung problems - that was devastating for my husband because he worshiped that baby. I went and got a little Shorkie without telling him about 2 months after that and he wouldn't speak to me or the dog for three days - but you should see them now. She is under him every move he makes, sleeps with him and sits on the couch waiting for him to get home from work every day. She and he are in hog heaven when his off days roll around. Then came Abigale. I took her in only as a FOSTER from my vet. She had been rescued from a shelter and was attacked by the rescuers dog and injured pretty bad. I didn't want to keep her as I had the two senior dogs in bad health and did not want another senior dog. No one wanted her and my husband wouldn't have let her go to anyone else anyway. Since then I have pulled 3 dogs from the shelter and kept them until the rescue organization found them a home and took in an orphaned puppy to bottle feed until he was placed. My husband was really sad when the rescue group found him a home because he really liked him and wanted to keep him. Now he's telling me not to pull for the rescue groups anymore because it's so sad when they leave. Who would have thought.
