Originally Posted by MomToAria (Post 1892705)

[F]She is so cute! Bless your heart for taking her in. It's one of her back legs that's missing right? My little Addaley is a 3 legged yorkie too. She was born without the full development of her front right leg. She just has one claw and her dew claw on that leg. She just looks like she holds it up all the time.

Can't wait to see more pics of Maemi! :) [/FONT]

Originally Posted by Winston's Mom (Post 1892773)

When I washed and groomed Maemi, I didn't feel any scar or anything in the area of her right hip. I'm almost sure she wasn't born with one. She seems to be walking fine, every once in a while she'd fall but she doesn't seem to mind. My husband, who is totally a goner, said maybe we should look into putting little boots on her for more traction. We'll see how she does.

Your baby looks so precious.

Originally Posted by Winston's Mom (Post 1892773)

When I washed and groomed Maemi, I didn't feel any scar or anything in the area of her right hip. I'm almost sure she wasn't born with one. She seems to be walking fine, every once in a while she'd fall but she doesn't seem to mind. My husband, who is totally a goner, said maybe we should look into putting little boots on her for more traction. We'll see how she does.

Your baby looks so precious.

Originally Posted by SophieRose (Post 1892771)

Bless you for rescuing such a precious angel. She is so pretty, and her incision looks tender. Will follow your thread to see how she progresses with her new family. PS I failed at Fostering 101. Warmly, Deborah

Originally Posted by wookie (Post 1892788)

Your husband is a :littleang

Originally Posted by Winston's Mom (Post 1891925)

About a month ago we ran into Winston’s and Maggie’s trainer, in her other life she is a county prosecutor and she also does dog rescues. She said that she was just thinking about us because they just rescued 35 dogs, most of the dogs are Yorkie and one tiny one has 3 legs. I told her to keep me posted. My husband was totally freaking out because we already have Winston and Maggie. So I told him that it doesn’t mean anything yet. The owner has to be prosecuted and the dogs have to be surrendered. Not only that, the County Vet has to give clean bill of health in order for the dogs to be adopted. Well yesterday, I got into work and found an email from Nicole that the little girl is ready for me.

Here is Maemi. She is very tiny.... all skin and bones (maybe 3.5 lbs). The people at the Shelter didn't have much information on her. All they know is that she was rescued from a single wide along with 34 other dogs. She was very sick when she got at the shelter in November. Her hair was totally matted and dirty as you can expect. The lady at the Shelter kind of cut off most of her matted hair. She was probably born with 3 legs, she get around fine and really doesn't look like she misses her 4th leg. She had no name, folks at the shelter called her tripod. At the beginning she was not use to being picked up or being around people but she bonded with one of the ladies at the shelter. When I first picked her up she froze but she warmed up to the idea. I tried to give her a treat but she doesn't know what it is. It really breaks my heart.

The whole drive home from the shelter she didn't take her eyes off me. We really didn't know what we were going to do with 3 dogs and was thinking that maybe we'd only be foster parents. Her eyes really got to me and I don't think I can give this little girl away. She is here to stay. She is never going to be mistreated again.

I named her “Maemi”, its Japanese and it means "honest child, smile of truth, ten thousand blessings and beauty".

She is very sweet, loves for me to hold her. She is getting friendly with Robert. So far, Winston and Maggie are very curious about her but we are still separating them. Maemi is going to our Vet on Saturday; she just got spayed so the stitches need to come out. We also want our Vet to double check her before we let the kids mingle. Wish us luck that all three kids will get along.