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In a way Tibbe was a rescue. My Jilly had been gone for 5 years at the time and finally I called her breeder when I couldn't find a small rescue dog after a year-plus of hunting. Jilly's breeder had Tibbe, an adult female and some puppies from a breeder who had left her dogs with Jilly's breeder to rehome, as the breeder had been through a bad several months and was getting a divorce. Jilly's breeder told me that she found out the dogs had apparently been living outside in covered cages for most of a year and said they were all in pretty bad shape when she got them the week before. She said the nails were long, coats filthy, matted, teeth uncared for, etc. Tibbe was 9 mos. old, pretty feral when I got him, wild and frightened of almost everything. He was scared of the inside of the house, TV, the fridge, AC, running water, doorbells and most everything. He was unsocialized and untrained and badly needed retained teeth pulled, 2 bad teeth pulled, teeth cleaning, neutering and his ears cleared up of mites and a bacterial infection. He was a total jewel in the rough and began to flower with good care, love, activities he enjoyed, socialization and training. Now he is 99% fear-free, obedient, sassy, bouncy, loves people, other dogs, going places and is razor-sharp at learning new things. It's hard to believe he's the same dog I got May 30th, 2008. He's come so far.