Please read this essay on the special needs of puppymill dogs before you apply for Missy.

Missy was adopted as a retiree from a backyard breeding operation. Like some dogs who come from a background of inadequate human socialization, she is independent around people and very intolerant of other dogs. Missy’s adopter couldn’t bring Missy to admit that the other animals in her home had a right to exist, so she regretfully surrendered Missy to us for rehoming.

Missy is a healthy girl, though she is missing some hair on her ears following a treatment for fungus. Should grow back, though. She isn’t obedience trained in any formal sense, but she is fairly well housebroken—for a mill dog—which means she’s willing to use the outdoor facilities if she is let out, but she’s not good about notifying the management when nature calls. She’s paper trained, in that if there are papers on the floor, she will use them. Readers with a habit of dropping sections of the Sunday newspaper in an imprecise or only vaguely defined mound beside the chair or bed, take note.

Missy likes to chase the birds in her backyard, and she stalks and pounces, catlike, on anything that moves. She really enjoys sucking the hair off her stuffed animals, and invariably leaves them deplushed and quite chilly looking, poor things. She really resents the crate, but that’s normal for a mill dog, and in her former home where she was a pill to the other dogs, she was crated, for her safety and theirs, about 18 hours a day. So, on the whole, Missy would rather not be crated. Do you blame her?

We think Missy would be very happy in just about any setting, provided she is an only pet. She’s an independent little thing (only 14 pounds!), so she doesn’t require a stay at home person. She’s not much of an athlete, though she does enjoy doing her 'Frenchie as Lion' performance piece. So a fenced yard would be nice, but isn’t required. A moderate little stroll around the condo property or along the boulevards of a city would be enough exercise for her. She’d be a fine office companion, content to quietly denude hapless stuffies while you labor to bring home the bacon. Missy likes bacon.

She’s a dear little dog, really. She is happy to have the company of people, but she isn’t clingy or demanding at all. She’s the kind of friend it’s most comfortable to spend time with—silences aren’t loaded with unspoken weightiness, there’s no need for constant building up of ego or esteem—a dog who values her people, but does not fawn over them.

If you’d like to be considered as a companion for Missy, stock up on those stuffies and prepare to travel to Alabama, with or without a banjo on your knee. Missy will not be shipped.

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Missy's Sponsors

For sweet lil' Missy. Love, Nadine Cantorna
Karen Jaworowski
Lesley Sailor
John & Brett Termine-Ximenes