Such a sorry looking face!!!  And no wonder because this little girl has not been comfortable for a long time due to bacteria and yeast infections.  She is feeling pretty miserable between the creepy-crawlies on her skin and the sores she has created from scratching.  And to make matters worse, she has had a few litters of puppies, which has led to an inguinal hernia.  When Mimi is comfortable enough to be spayed, she will have the hernia sewn up.

To help her get better, Mimi will need to take quite a bit of medicine along with having frequent baths with pricey special shampoos.  The hernia repair surgery is pretty expensive, too.

Would you like to help out with a donation towards Mimi’s extra medical costs?  She would really appreciate it!

I had a really bad mess in my leg of bones going in a bunch of wrong directions.  The shelter couldn’t adopt me out this way so now I am in a foster home.  I have this metal thing in my leg to help those bones heal right.  Since I can’t really talk, I can’t tell everyone how this happened, but it never slowed me down – even before they put that pin in there – ‘cause I can run really fast with the other 3 legs! 

I have to go back to the vet to have the pin taken out so I won’t be ready for adoption until the end of October, but meanwhile, I would be really grateful if you want to send me some money to help pay for my big vet bill!

I am a pretty active “puppy” and I like to check things out by chewing on them.  I love doggie toys and I love doggie treats.  I play with the other dogs and sometimes I get disciplined because I get caught teasing some of the senior dogs here.  Oops.  I figured they might want to play so I was just checking to see if I could talk them into it!

Sometimes I get lazy and I don’t feel like going outside to potty.  But if foster mom catches me thinking about doing it in the house, she yells my name so then I go dashing outside!

I really like to lay in a human lap when I am done playing and I kind of like going into a crate to sleep at night and when the humans go to work so I can be fun and I can be cuddly – pretty good combination for a nice pet dog, don’t you think?

China is a wonderful little girl who is happy happy happy. She loves to cuddle and sit in your lap and lick your face. She is very social and people-oriented, and would like to be with "her person" all the time if she could. She is a clown and will make you laugh every day. She gets along fine with other dogs and with cats, and she loves absolutely everybody.

China is a "special needs" dog because of her allergies. We haven't been able to determine exactly what she is allergic to, but she gets extremely itchy and causes sores on her skin from chewing and scratching. She also gets goopy eyes. Currently we are trying her on a maintenance dose of Benadryl to see if that gives her some sustained relief. She is also on a restricted diet since we would like to figure out if it is a food allergy. She needs a bath with medicated shampoo about every 3-4 weeks. Fortunately she is very cooperative and it only takes about 15 minutes. APB would very much appreciate donations to help pay for her medical care and special diet.

China loves to chew rawhides and bones -- and not those wimpy "little dog" bones either! She is a "power chewer" and has lovely teeth as a result. She loves to go for walks, and behaves pretty well on them. She pulls a little at first, but a walk with her is definitely enjoyable. Her absolute favorite thing to do is sit in a lap. She just loves to cuddle and lick your face. She gets very excited about her food, and usually has a major "wiggle attack" before meals.

Like all Pugs, China needs to have central air conditioning and to have her nose fold cleaned every couple of days. She is prone to ear infections (probably also allergy-related), and will need to have her ears monitored regularly. She also benefits from daily eye drops just to keep her allergy gunk rinsed out.

China would be a very easy dog to adopt, even with her allergies, if she were house trained. Unfortunately her original family somehow managed to reverse house train her. When she came into foster care, she believed firmly that the only place it was ok to go potty was the floor. She would hold it and hold it in her crate and, when we took her outside, she would hold it and hold it as long as she could. When we brought her in, it was clearly a huge relief that she could finally go on the floor! She has been making some progress, and now understands that is ok to go outside, but she still prefers the floor. Fortunately, she is crate trained, and won't potty in her crate unless she is absolutely desperate. She needs a home where she can be on a regular schedule and be supervised when she is out of her crate. She seems to be more willing to "go" when she's on a walk than when she's in the yard, so a hom where she could have a walk twice a day would be ideal for her.

For a person or a family in the right situation, China will be a dream dog! She is cute, funny, happy, loving, cuddly, affectionate, and downright adorable.

You would think those mosquitoes wouldn’t bother a spunky little girl like me!  I can run really fast when I want to and I thought they couldn’t catch me.  But they must have snuck up on me because I have heartworms now because of them.  Well, it is also because someone wasn’t giving their poor dog heartworm preventative and my former owners weren’t giving it to me.  Either way, I need to get the expensive medicine to fix me up and get me all ready to be adopted. 

When I am all better sometime in September, you will probably want to apply to adopt me because I am sweet and I get along great with other dogs.  Meanwhile, until I am ready, I will be very grateful if you want to send some money to help me pay the veterinarian.

THANKS!

I keep telling my foster mom that I really don't need to go on the ER page. I feel happy and healthy as can be! No hospitals or operations for me! But see, mom says that I have a yucky eye and it's not getting better like it is supposed to, and it's really important that we figure out how to fix my eye before I can get adopted.

On my very last day at this scary place called “animal control”, I was sure something bad was going to happen to me. But then, the lady from APB took me away and brought me to a house with other dogs to play with and a yard to run in and everything! Only problem was that one of my eyes was all goopy and infected. I found out that I have "dry eye", which makes my eye really irritated and prone to infection and scarring if it isn't treated. Foster mom and the vet thought the infection would clear up real quick with some antibiotics and other drops, but it didn't get better at all. After going back to the vet many times and trying so many different ointments and drops and pills, my eye is still yucky and the vets say that I am a "specialty case". They didn’t have to tell me that. I already knew how special I was!

I just visited with the special eye doctor, and he thinks he knows a medicine that will make my eye better. For the next month I am on three different eye drops that get put in eight times a day altogether. Once my eye starts getting better, I will have to have eye drops maybe three times a day. I almost never complain about my eye, but every time I am at the vet's, everyone makes scrunchy faces and frowns and says how much it must hurt me. It does hurt, but I’m tough, I can handle it.

I can’t wait to get healthy! My foster mom says that getting healthy is expensive. Just the visit to the special eye doctor cost more than my adoption fee, not to mention all my other appointments, neutering, vaccinations, and heartworm test. So she is hoping that maybe someone who especially likes handsome beagle boys will sponsor me to help out with paying to fix my eye. That would make me happy too!

Love, Raymond.

Lucky for me, my former owner went out of business.  Usually that is not a good thing but the business was breeding dogs so instead of having to work for living, I now can live just to enjoy life and be spoiled like a shih tz thinks they are suppose to be!  Besides, my teeth were pretty yucky and I needed some of them pulled and the rest of them cleaned up.  Plus, I had this funny thing on my good eye so I couldn’t see real well.  My left eye is a micro opthalmia eye and the vet thinks that it doesn’t work at seeing anything so it is pretty important for me to have a healthy right eye so that I don’t go blind.

Hopefully the biopsy on that thing that was growing where it shouldn’t have been will be benign but while we are waiting to hear the results, I have to save up my money to pay my surgery bill and I am hoping to get some help because I don’t have a job anymore!  If you want to help me, please send me some donations!  

Watch for an update on me at the end of March and I will let you know how I am doing and when I will be ready for adoption.