wearing her emotions on her tongue

from: loveandaleash.wordpress.com/

This is what Lollie thinks of le cone de shame, which she has been instructed to wear again. Her stitches came out a week after her spay and they are healing fine, but her surgery area needs a little more time without any special attention from her tongue.

 

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Our foster dog, Lollie, came to us from the Montgomery County Humane Society, where she had been rescued out of a terrible situation. One day when animal control officers responded to a call about something making noise in a dumpster, they went to investigate. Upon opening the dumpster they found not a raccoon or squirrel as I imagine they were expecting, but a beautiful dog. To be exact, a three-year old female pit bull who was half starved, filthy, and covered in cuts and bruises. This was Lollie.

 

At the shelter, she quickly became a staff favorite. According to her friends there, she was one of few dogs who acted as though her modest, concrete enclosure was the lap of luxury compared to where she had come from. She was personable, quiet, potty-trained, and very gentle.

 

And yet, she kept being overlooked. Maybe it was the fact that after many washes, much of her fur was still yellowed from the filth she was found in. Maybe it was the scars and scratches on her face, which tell stories that nobody will ever know. Maybe it was the fact that you could clearly see every single one of her ribs through her fur.

 

After seven weeks at the shelter, Ben and I met her and decided she had to be ours to foster and save. She is exactly the kind of dog that runs out of time at the animal shelter every day, because she is not your standard cute puppy.

 

Lollie is doing great in our home, and even has her blog. You can follow her progress and adventures, or learn more about adopting this sweet girl on: loveandaleash.wordpress.com/

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