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Besides snoozing, 11-year-old Beau, a yellow Lab-Jack Russell mix, loves to play Frisbee, hide-and-seek and soccer. “Beau is smart, playful, cuddly and doesn't seem to age!” said his pet parent, Kelly. ”He's the ‘puppy-for-life’ I prayed for my whole life.”
Kelly said Beau has a unique vocabulary. “We constantly have to spell out words around the house because he is so smart. Even now, he's catching on to ‘Wanna go for a W-A-L-K?’”
Nemesis (right) and her 8-week-old puppy were trotting down the street when their pet parent Shay rescued them in 2004. Shay found a great home for the puppy, and fostered Nemmi while the Pit Bull had some parasites cleared up. “During that time I fell in love,” Shay says. “She has this thing where she holds down smaller critters, dogs and cats alike, and nibbles (grooms) them up and down with her little front teeth. It is so cute to watch.” While her cats will only put up with it for a short period of time, Shay says her hound dog “will let her do it forever.”
Hershey is a 5-year-old chocolate Lab-Coonhound mix. “She loves to go outside and play fetch with a big stick,” said Jeff and Marisa, her pet parents. “When we're not throwing the stick to play fetch she is dragging it around the sand box and burying it and then digging it up so she can bury it again. She loves to go for long walks and LOVES to swim.”
Fifi is a 6-year-old Poodle-Maltese mix. “She is the most caring, affectionate dog you will ever meet,” says Rebecca, her dog mom. “I haven't met any person who has met Fifi who does not fall in love with her. No worries about her ever being a 'bad' dog, she is playful, fun, caring, loyal, beautiful and definitely one of a kind!”
Torii is 5 years old. Her name means "gateway to a sacred place" in Japanese. "It suits her," says Jan, her dog mom. "When she is next to me I feel a calmness that whispers quietly, like a haiku."
Gracie, an Australian Shepherd-Jack Russell Terrier mix, is 6 years old. “I call her my blue-eyed, brown-eyed, lopped-ear dog!” says Vickie, her dog mom. “She and her brother, Finley, blessed our lives when we adopted them five years ago from a no-kill shelter. Gracie was left on a doorstep before her eyes were even opened. Maybe if her so-called owners had seen her beautiful eyes, they might have fallen in love with her like my husband and I did. She is the sweetest and most loving dog we have ever owned. She gets lots of attention from her unique eyes when we take her on walks.”
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Gowen is a 6-year-old purebred American Cocker Spaniel. “Hope you can see his beautiful, well kept (by himself), pinkish tummy!” says his dog mom, Betty Anne.
Sir Paddington Paws, a Bichon Frise-Maltese mix, turns a year old this month. “I am an energetic, playful and friendly,” he writes. “Two of my favorite pastimes are getting belly rubs and playing fetch with my owner and best friend, Jennifer.” In this photo, Paddington notes he is wearing one of his favorite hoodies in one of his favorite positions (asking for a belly rub).
Einstein was found as a starving stray at a local mall. “We had no idea what color he was, as he was so dirty and covered with some really nasty stuff,” says Jeff, his dog dad. “When he was cleaned up we felt we had no choice but to name him Einstein.”
“Forgive the puppy-dog stare – Flash can't help himself,” says Danielle, dog mom of this 8-week-old future agility star. “No one can resist his blue-and-brown sparkle, matched only by the flecks of white on his tiny button nose. This boy has got a magical gaze that makes me swoon.”
Chanel is a 3-year-old, long-haired, purebred Chihuahua. “What do I love most about my dog? Come on, she's a Chi!” says Ashley, her dog mom. “I love every last thing about her, from her being the biggest cuddlebug; a spoiled little brat; being only 4 pounds; her long, soft, fluffy coat; her crooked teeth; and, most of all, her gremlin face!”
“One cold day in January 2009, while I was volunteering walking dogs at the shelter, I was rescued by an Angel,” says dog mom Sarah. “She was the deaf dog in the last kennel that desperately needed out.” Sarah adopted Angel the next day. After receiving certification as a therapy dog in October 2009, Angel and Sarah have been visiting nursing home, “giving and receiving smiles...there is nothing quite as precious as a Pitty Smile!” Sarah says.
Bambi, a 2-year-old Chihuahua, broke three toes when she was 5 months old. “She was hopping down the step to the patio when it happened,” says her dog mom. “Her personality is as cute as she looks. I love everything about her!”
“This is Koji, my exceptionally furry 10-month-old Shiba Inu who had joyfully rolled in poison ivy!” says his dog mom, Kristi. “I ended up having a severe reaction to him when he decided to sit on me, so off to the bath he went! And he was not happy about it.”