I have adopted one of the hundreds of maltese dogs from the Stroud incident. She is a 3 year old maltese. I am 74 years old and my wife and I got a dog less than a year after we were married and have had many dogs since then. We have had this maltese about 10 days and I don't remember being so thrilled with a dog. This one had no sense of what it meant to be a dog. She had not had a bath for the first 3 years of her life, she had never been on grass before, she had never been cuddled or loved. A week later, she has learned that outside is a marvelous place to be, she goes out there to go pee and poop. She has become my dog and jumps up in my chair and she has only done that the last couple of days. We took her to the groomer and he bathed her, cut the hair out of her face, did her toenails, and did that anal thing. By that time she was too stressed to really cut her hair so she came home with us. We are going to take her back and get her hair cut next week. The people at the Tulsa Humane Society were just wonderful and helped us through the whole thing. This is probably the last dog I will ever get, but I am extremely pleased with this one. Thanks THS for rescuing this dog so that I can have her. By the way, her name, and this is the first name she has had, is Ava Leigh. She is a beauty. read more
