Need advice on puppy

Brittanie, bless you for rescuing this little baby. :D I think the most important thing is getting her to the vet. My vet lets me write a check and post date it for 14 days in advance. Maybe if you called and explained to them that you just got this puppy and you think she has worms etc they will work something out like that with you. I don't know anything about worms but all I can say is to give this little girl lots of TLC which I know you are. :)

yeah i am going to call the vet today and explain my situation..my heart just breaks when i think of what she has gone through

Good....I hope you are able to get her in. I bet you can find a vet that will be understanding and want to see her right away seeing as you just got her and she might have worms. Poor little thing, how could anyone abuse such a sweet little girl? I just cannot deal with people that abuse animals. I have three little dachshunds and they are treated no less than the queens of my house. They are my children. :)

yeah she is going to be spolied rotten. she is my baby. i have only had her for two days and im not sure what i would do if she is gone!!!! she has stolen my heart completely

Do you have any pics? What did you name her?

yeah i do have some pics. once i figure out how to get them on here from my cell phone i will post them. and she doesnt have a name yet. i havent found one that sounds right for her yet. any suggestions are welcome :-)

Oh I have never been good at naming my dogs....I have always had help. Mine are Sassy, Lucy, and Abbie. Just don't call her Tinkerbell....too many people with chihuahuas named Tinkerbell.

I have an ebook on training "difficult" dogs . . . . While your puppy isn't difficult yet, with her background she may be develop fear aggression. I suppose it couldn't be that bad for a chihuahua, but it bigger dogs it can get pretty dangerous.

But it also has a section on bringing your puppy home, and how to train a puppy. I will find it tonight and email it to you if you want.

thank you i would appreciate that greatly. and i will not be naming her tinkerbell, i wouldnt do that to her lol...she is such a unique little dog she deserves a unique little name

I almost named my dog Azreal . . . . After the demon that tried to destroy all of existence in the movie Dogma . . . . . Don't remember why I decided to go with Goudah, but turns out my dog is a lover, not a fighter. Someone could break into my house and all they would have to do is pet him and my dog would probably follow him home!

lol cute. i love dogs they are great. i almost like them sometimes more then people lol

Actually, I guess the movie is wrong . . . . Azrael is a name for the Angel of Death, while Loki is the Norse God of mischief. In the movie they have the names backwards.

Once you have an all clear at the vet, the best I can say is...patience. Don't rush it and she will be won over. This little one is prob so scared from the past it will take time & lots of love (which I know you have)for her to realize that you will keep her safe. You will end up with a most loyal pup - they know when they have a good forever home. All my pets have been adopted, and they are the best. What color is she? I can toss around some name ideas too. I agree it has to fit them just right. It took us almost 2 weeks to get the right name for our orphaned kitty. (besides queen of course) lol! her name is Maizy she has alot of goldish orange on her tummy & it made us think of the fall corn..that's where her name came from. good luck, and I can help w doggie info if you need it. :D

There is a pic of her posted on the community photo thread!

ok I will try & find it, I'm kinda just getting used to the posting stuff!! ps by the way Gouda been meaning to tell you this, I smile every time I see your cute little puggie - just the look is too cute!

Thanks! He's my little guy!

BTW - I only put him in the costume for the pics. I thought he might like it because he loves wearing different collars, but he didn't like it so I snapped the pic and then put the costume up. I don't normally dress up my dog.

http://www.debtconsolidationcare.com/forums/community-photo-42.html

That's a link to the pic . . . . It's near the bottom of the page . . . .

found it thanks! that's the thing the look on his face like "awww mommm do I hafta?"

the puppy is so darling she looks like a little butterscotch candy.....
gotta go to work blech

thank you. i have an apt. for her today with the vet for a check up. so we will see what is wrong. i hope for her sake its nothing too serious, i just want her to be ok!

You did a great thing by taking an abused puppy into your home. I applaud you for that. I have a male german shepherd who I got from my ex-husband over year ago. We bought him together as a pup but we split up soon after that. Ex kept him because he had the room for him. I took him because ex was moving into an apartment and I live on a farm now. When Deniro was less than a year old, the dog trainer abused him. So did the dog trainers wife because we wouldn't breed our female sheperd to his male. Now, "D" (as we call him) is very sketish around men. He still hasn't warmed up to my husband all that much but he does listen to him. I had problems when he first came here but it took time for him to trust me. He didn't see a lot of people when he lived with my ex for those four years. I would sit in front of his crate for hours and just talk to him. "D" can be very scarey when he's growling at you, even through a crate door. Two weeks later he ran away and got hit by a car. He didn't know his way back home yet and I was so scared. We spent two days looking for him. I was scared that he was dead or would hurt someone. The neighbors even helped us look. I took my female shepherd out and we tracked him down at a neighbor's house in the woods. His poor leg was all swollen and bone was sticking out. Ugh, I will never forget that. "D" did manage to jump into the truck and I took him to the vet. Now, here came the fun part. Luckily, there was a female vet on duty. We actually really bonded over the next couple of months while his leg was healing. Today, he is my bestest bud and is getting better with people, including men. There is always people around our house. Last week, my brother-in-law came for a visit. "D" made fast friends with him. He is slowly trusting people because he is being socialized more.
You will want to take time and be patient with your new little one. I'm sorry this is so long but I just love animals. It's probably why I have four cats and five dogs. I got a pekingese for Christmas and I went through several names with him. He is known as Chester or Chess Chess for short LOL!

I know this name might not sound all that great, but when I was a little girl my brother and I found a little puppy (mostly mutt) that had been hit by a car she was just lying on the side of the road crying. We both begin to cry ourselves, so my brother without giving it a thought took his shirt off picked her up and we headed home were we just as a matter of fact told our parents that we were meant to have this dog or we wouldn't have found her when we did. They couldn't argue, so we went to the animal emergency vet got her fixed up and we name her MIRACLE, because to us she was. I just sat here and started to cry remembering that story. By the way that happened when I was 10 and she lived believe it or not until I was 32.