Hello! I’m known as Venus and I’m a very beautiful long-haired Chihuahua. I was dropped off at a local shelter, where I was scared to death and thought that I had to bite everyone who tried to touch me. Luckily, one of the shelter workers saw my potential and starting working with me and then contacted Chihuahua Rescue and Transport so that I could get even more help. My foster mom is working really hard with me, and I am starting to see that people are a good thing. I’m still a little apprehensive when I first meet new people, but I don’t think that I have to run up and bite them just because they are new to me.

I love to sleep in my foster mom’s bedroom right beside the bed, and I love to go outside and explore her big fenced in back yard. Sometimes when she calls me to come in, I stay way out in the woods and pretend that I don’t hear her, until she comes looking for me and then I run like crazy to the back door and act like I’ve been there the whole time.

I was recently diagnosed with a heart murmur that makes me cough but my foster mom gives me medicine which helps with the coughing.