Bella is an 9 year old, 9 pound chihuahua. She is up to date on vaccinations, spayed, and has had a dental. Bella has now been in rescue for 2 years! Our longest yet.

 

Bella was rescued from a high kill shelter in Quebec; her time was up. We decided to give her a chance. She came to us very fearful but has spent her time in foster learning to trust again.

 

Her fosters started to give her high-value treats as a motivator to get close to her and worked on this daily. They got to a point where they could finally pick her up and carry her—which she loves!! 

 

Bella originally had issues with housetraining but has learned to use a peepad.

She doesn't like the cold, so when she arrived in the wintertime, it was hard to train her outside as the snow was very deep. She now has her own little outhouse in house with an entrance and she comes down from the loft to pee and poop when she needs. There have been no accidents in the house since!

 

She does not need a crate but there have been no issues in her crate while traveling.

 

Bella loves to put on her collar and go for walks but does tend to bark at people and animals. She gets a lot of her exercise in the back yard and loves to be outside.

 

She is very playful with her toys and loves to provoke you to take it from her with lots of sound effects. She is not the kind of dog you can grab, snuggle, kiss and rub all over; however, she does make sure to get her ears rubbed. Her foster dad will get his face licked and she is very vocal with grumbling until he does it. 

 

This girl is loving life on her terms and that's OK.