Belle

Belle came to us in May. Our little beloved Pug Cece was failing fast. Cece was 12 years old and had been a very important member of our family. It was so sad to watch her slipping, she had been blind for a couple of years and had been deaf for several months. For the last week or so she had dementia, she could no longer find her way around and she didn't seem to know where she was.

Cece loved to lay on the grass or on the front porch and soak in the sun. We had taken her out and she was laying on the front porch so Nery and I left the front door opened so we could hear her if she whined and we went in the kitchen to eat dinner. While we were eating this little black and white Papillon puppy came running in the kitchen and ran around our feet. I picked her up and ran outside. surely and expensive puppy like a Papillon wouldn't be too far from it's owner. I went up and down our street and around the block but no one knew who this puppy belonged to. We put up a flyer in the neighborhood market and posted a found puppy add on the local news lost and found, we contacted vet offices and took her to our vet and had her scanned for a micro chip, but nothing. We called the animal shelter and asked if anyone had called looking for their Papillon puppy, I checked with the Humane Society but know one ever called.

After 2 months of searching with no luck finding her owner we decided to adopt her our selves.

Cece passed away just 4 days after Belle came to live with us. Nery calls her our puppy from heaven, although sometimes she seems more like a puppy from somewhere else. She is a rascal and keeps us on our toes. We have had a Lab, 2 Bassett Hounds and our Pug Cece but Belle is the most "dog" of any dog we have owned. She loves bones and loves to bury them and then dig them up and chew them, she has the energy of 10 dogs, she loves to play with the neighbor's dogs one is a Belgian Malinois (Mac), the other is a Mastiff mix (Max), both much, much bigger than her and she literally runs circles around them. The Malinois tires of her very quickly but she has become good friends with the Mastiff mix.

We love Belle, her coming to stay with us has eased the pain of loosing Cece and she keeps us very entertained.