Poppy is adorable!!!! Love her! I can't IMAGINE your MIL not loving her to pieces! My mother is visiting and my boys LOVE their grandma. She gets up and has coffee in the morning and they sit with her, they also sit with my brother when he has coffee. Even my other brother who claims that they are not real dogs bought them their own stockings and gave them to them, taking each thing out. When one of them lays with him he pets them and claims he hates them but will sit and pet them for an hour. Yesterday he actually said "you know, they are getting really good with the kids" (his kids are 3 & 1 and my boys were not so good with them at one time, growling, snapping, etc...)
My family respects my love for my boys, even if they don't LOVE them they treat them good and give them love and belly rubs and even gifts. I love them for that!