Hi everyone! I'm Sheila and I adopted Isabel three weeks ago. She's 10 months old and 8 pounds. Adorable! Adorable!
We had a harrowing weekend at the emergency vet. She ate something in the trash and it came out of her...everywhere. Guess what though? She used a pee pad for the first time ever, when this mess started in the wee hours of the morning---she gave me the gift of putting her "output" on exactly right spot!!! I didn't think that she understood what those pads were for, despite weeks of putting her poo on the pad when she dropped it somewhere else.
She wasn't eating or drinking after 24 hours, so back to the vet we went today. This is my first puppy and I searched for rescue Havanese for months. I applied for 13 dogs. I was turned down because I had no fenced-in yard and I am not retired, and some lovely dogs just got adopted before I got there! In the end, I got Isabel from a respected breeder of show dogs who was happy to re-home an older puppy who was too small to show or to breed. I am so happy that I picked this breed! I teach at a university and she's been going to some of my classes (and stealing water bottles). The students are all doggie-deprived and they are so emotional about puppies. One girl started crying when she picked her up. It is exam time and they are stressed and they miss their dogs! It is a great pleasure to be Izzy's chauffeur and human companion. I look forward to meeting and learning from all of y'all (the most inclusive form of the pronoun "y'all")!
We had a harrowing weekend at the emergency vet. She ate something in the trash and it came out of her...everywhere. Guess what though? She used a pee pad for the first time ever, when this mess started in the wee hours of the morning---she gave me the gift of putting her "output" on exactly right spot!!! I didn't think that she understood what those pads were for, despite weeks of putting her poo on the pad when she dropped it somewhere else.
She wasn't eating or drinking after 24 hours, so back to the vet we went today. This is my first puppy and I searched for rescue Havanese for months. I applied for 13 dogs. I was turned down because I had no fenced-in yard and I am not retired, and some lovely dogs just got adopted before I got there! In the end, I got Isabel from a respected breeder of show dogs who was happy to re-home an older puppy who was too small to show or to breed. I am so happy that I picked this breed! I teach at a university and she's been going to some of my classes (and stealing water bottles). The students are all doggie-deprived and they are so emotional about puppies. One girl started crying when she picked her up. It is exam time and they are stressed and they miss their dogs! It is a great pleasure to be Izzy's chauffeur and human companion. I look forward to meeting and learning from all of y'all (the most inclusive form of the pronoun "y'all")!