Hi everybody!! I've been in a foster home for just a week, and I have to tell you---this is great!! Foster mom says I need to tell you my story, so here goes…..I'm over 10 years old and weigh about 8 pounds. My first owner abused me, and I have a burn scar across my back, in front of my hips, as a memory of that place. My second owner was elderly and basically neglected me. When she went into a nursing home, I came to a pug rescuer family two years ago, very overweight and with my nails almost grown into my foot pads.

Things went okay at the pug rescuers home, but there were almost a dozen dogs there. Recently, 2 of those big pugs decided that they could attack me. So, that rescuer contacted CRT and here I am!! I am now living with 3 chis and a foster mom, and Foster Mom has been so nice. I was limping, and she took me to the vet and got some medicine for it, and now I'm fine. My name was Nakita but she calls me Granny, based on my gray muzzle and white streak across my head. However, now that I feel good, I can climb up and down the deck steps, explore the big back yard, and follow the other 3 around the yard, exploring and making sure that no birds or anything get into our yard!!

Another reason my foster Mom calls me Granny is that I'm missing a few teeth. I can sure eat well, though, and I'm currently on a diet of light dry dog food. Foster Mom says I'm friendly; I like to sit in her lap with the other chis. I've learned to walk through the house, crossing those threshold door places that kind of scared me. I have one behavior thing that may never go away; when foster Mom wants to pick me up, I just flatten down on the ground or on the floor. She can pick me up, and I'm happy, but I don't come to her to be picked up and sometimes I hide behind a chair. She thinks maybe one of my previous owners wasn't nice about picking me up. I don't shake, and I'm not really scared, but this is just something I do. I do have an opinion on some things, like when I want out of my crate and that supper should come more quickly, and I'll quietly yip about it.

I don't want you to think I'm a doddering old fool, though. I can run and investigate the yard with the best of them! The longer I'm here, the more confident I'm getting, and there's a lot of life left in this little body. Not much gets by me, and I have an opinion about all of it!
I am SO happy now to be safe and living with only 3 dogs my size. Nobody scares me, and I'm so happy now. I know I'm an older chi, but chis can live a long time and my foster Mom keeps telling me that I'm an "oldie but goody" and deserve a loving person who will enjoy my happy, silly, loving little ways. So, I hope that someone out there reads all about me and will adopt me so I can finally have the loving and quiet peaceful life that I've never had. If you'd like to help me live out my life with love and peace, I'd be so grateful.
If you have a little place for me in your home and your heart, please complete an adoption application on our website, and then email Laura at MidwestCoordinator@chihuahua-rescue.com  to let her know. You must live in OH/IN/KY/IL/MN/MI/WI (cs)