Annie Day 2

Annie wanting to play with Bella.

Aww... so cute.

One of the demodex mange areas -- lower belly, sanitary, hind legs, tail.

Welcome Home, Annie!

I didn't plan on adopting another dog.  I admit I look through petfinder and the rescue org's website where I got Callie & Bella on a regular basis but not with the intent to adopt another dog.  On Friday, Nov. 12, I received a newsletter from Room For One More that showed a picture of several dogs waiting for fur-ever homes and Annie was one of them.  I thought she was adorable.  She reminded me of Bella's shichi face and Callie's coloring.  Then I read Annie's story.  In early January 2010, Annie and her three puppies were dropped behind the rescue org's 6 foot privacy wall and discovered the next morning.  Annie was skin and bones, infested with fleas and demodex mange.  She was so malnutritioned that she was unable to feed her babies.  Her three babies, cute as can be, were skin and bones too.  Sadly, two of them didn't make it.  Annie was taken in, cared for, and spayed and adopted in late Feb. 2010.  She spent about 8 months with her new family and I can tell they took good care of her.  She's a sweet, well mannered dog and is potty trained too.  From what I know, the demodex mange/vet bills became too much and they returned her to the rescue organization.  She was being fostered by Karron for about three weeks (She is the same woman that fostered and nutured Bella and Callie!) when I saw her face in the newsletter.  I sent Karron an email just to ask a few questions about her and remark on how she reminded me of my girls.  The next day, my mom and I are on our way to Inverness to pick her up!  The 3.5 hour drive is a pleasure.  It is such a different world up there.  The people are nice, the area is lush and green and quaint.  We arrived at the rescue org and met with Karron (while Annie ran around on the floor, staying close to Karron) who went over Annie's background and medicines.  We talked for awhile and then loaded up Annie for the drive home.  We hugged goodbye and made our way back home.  Annie slept most of the drive home.  When I arrived home to introduce her to Bella and Callie they greeted her with barks and growls.  Then they sniffed around.  Bella is very protective, very posessive of me and still growls when she comes near me.  However, she did try to play with Annie this morning -- progress already!  After she arrived home, I let her walk around for a bit before I gave her a bath and changed her into clean booties.  I brushed her out as much as I could but she does need to be clipped to get some knots out.  I noticed that her parts of her belly and all of her sanitary area is black (mange).  Hard to see what else is mangy.  I am reading whatever I can on demodex mange and just going to try to keep her happy and as comfortable as possible in hopes that she is able to fully recover and is a happy little girl with her new family.

Annie is approximately 18mos old, 8-9 pounds.

Yes, Callie, I upset the harmony in the house.  You'll get used to it. :)  Just wait til Mocha meets her.  :)

(Top "before" and after photo credit: Room For One More Pet Rescue)