Abby has arrived!

Happy news, everyone! Beautiful Miss Abby was transported from Eastern WA, across the Cascade Mountains and ending up at the Pet Market where she kept me company at work today. How someone thought this was an "awful, psycho dog" is beyond me.

She is a typical, energetic, terrier pup - eager to play and eager to please. She helped out at work by demonstrating how great bully sticks are for chewing and which toys hold up to terrier teeth. I picked out a special "just ducky" collar for her because a pretty girl deserves a pretty new collar.

She has fit in great with the pack and spent a lot of time with Frodo and the puppies doing rattie runs in the back yard. She is F-A-S-T! Man, can that girl run. She seems very healthy other than a little extra shedding that is likely due to stress. Tomorrow we'll do a brushing session with the furbuster and she should be as good as new.

There is definitely some emotional healing that will need to happen. She gets quite frightened if she hears voices raised in what she thinks is anger and she is hand shy until she knows a person is calm and safe. But she is all about giving love and has the essence of that wonderful rat terrier personality.

The best part is that 2 hours after she arrived at the store a couple, regular customers, came in with their wonderful cairn terrier, Angus. Angus and his parents fell in love with Abby and tonight they called to let me know that they were submitting an adoption application for her.