‘When I wake up she's on the pillow right next to me. I have fallen head over heels in love with this little girl’: Puppy named ‘karma’ rescued from neglectful home, where she was abandoned in the heat, turns into velcro dog who has no limit on love

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Dec 14, 2025 5:00 PM EST

There are people who will literally do everything and anything to help and care for a darling doggo, and then there are those who will do the exact opposite. And today's story has a good dose of both of those kinds of characters. So meet our protagonist and dog-saving hero, who at the time of this story is living with six cuddly canines in her home. Having opened it up to those four-pawed puppers who needed somewhere safe, warm, and loving to stay. And now we will introduce to you the villain of this story, the mother of a woman who recently moved homes and could not bring her six-month-old puppy along.

This so-called mother would snap at the poor puppy in her care, calling it a bad dog just because it had not yet been potty trained. Thankfully, as things often go with stories of sweet puppers being saved, our heroic dog lover stepped in soon enough to pluck the neglected pupper from the home that could not handle her and gave her the love and devotion that this puppy deserved. 

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    I hate all my neighbors, just need to get that out. Only 3 of my neighbors are not entitled. Everyone else seems to be entitled. I have so many stories of
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    my neighbors being entitled, mainly because of the dogs I have. I currently have a bunch of dogs in my house, including my parent's dogs. My
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    parents were on vacation when the lock down started and because both my parents are older and have crappy immune systems, the doctor didn't
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    think it was safe enough for them to fly back so they're still in another country and unable to fly back at the moment. I also have been fostering for
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    the last 2-3 years and have a few foster pups. I've been looking to adopt a 6th dog into my family for a while. None of the
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  • Holy moly, this is one doggo devoted hooman. To put so much strain on themselves, spreading themselves thin to care for a collective of canines like this all while the world is in utter turmoil and madness, is truly exemplary canine carer behavior. We could all stand to learn a lot from this lady. 

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    dogs I looked at fit into my lifestyle and just overall wouldn't be happy living with me. I loved all the dogs I looked at but I needed to think about the dogs
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    happiness. I have a neighbor who likes to talk but all she does is talk about how much she hates the dog her daughter left her. Her daughter, let's
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    call her Maya (not her real name) moved to a new state and their new house doesn't allow dogs. Maya is currently very pregnant and no one is allowed over
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    because of the virus. Maya talked with her Mom who was more than happy to take the dog into her house. The dog was only 5-6 months old when she moved in
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    with Maya's Mom. These are a few small conversations I've had about the dog with EP. EP: She is such a bad dog. She keeps
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  • Jheez, people like that who call a puppy of all things a bad dog immediately show off just how undeserving they are of having a dog in the first place. It is like you might call a baby or a toddler bad; they have had little chance to learn or even understand the world that we live in and yet are expected to behave perfectly from the word go? Completely unreasonable. 

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    going to the bathroom in my house! Me: How often do you take her out to go potty?
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    EP: When I take her for a walk. I take her for a walk once a day for 10 minutes and she goes potty. I have a few puppy pads in the corner where she goes
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    potty when I'm working. Me: That's why she's using the bathroom in your house. I wish that was all she did. She
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    complains that a 5 month old puppy pulls when she goes for a walk. From what I've seen, this poor dog is terrified of her.
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    This neighbor knows where I live because I invited Maya and her over before Maya left for a barbeque. I went to take a couple of my dogs for a walk. I go
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    out of my fence and see that same dog tied to my fence. It's been very hot out recently and this dog is panting and looks so stressed. I put my dogs away
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    and let her inside to let her have water and cool down. I have a cooling mat for my dogs when we're outside so I let her lay on it while I go and talk to this
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    EP. She's home. Her car is home. I knock on the door for 10 minutes with no answer. I have Maya's number so I text her.
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    I text her: '[my address] I know you know where I live but please send this to your Mom. She left your dog tied at my gate. Your Mom tied her up about an
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    hour ago. She's very hot and I'm trying to cool her down as much as I can.' I checked my camera and she left the dog out about an hour and a half
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    ago, that's how I knew. Maya texted me back saying, 'I'm so sorry. I had absolutely no idea what my Mom was
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    going to do. She just texted me and told me that she's just gonna take her to a shelter.' Nope. I'm not gonna let this poor puppy
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    go to a shelter. I texted Maya and let her know I'll keep the dog. I'm not sure if she told her Mom or if she even read my text. Her Mom knocks on my door. I
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    keep the pup in the back to let her cool down more. EP: I'm here to get the dog.
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    Me: I told Maya I'd keep her. I don't want her to be dropped off at the shelter. It's fine. I'll keep her.
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    EP: That's such a relief. I didn't want to have to explain the the shelter why I was dropping her off. I think there's also a drop off fee.
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    Me: Why did you leave her at my gate? EP: I know you foster dogs and know you can find her a home. Me: No why did you
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    want to drop her off at a shelter. EP: She's a bad dog. She isn't potty trained and she's not trained at all. She's also really
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    expensive. Her food is too much especially because I'm not working. Thank you for taking her. Then she left my yard. There is a 6
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    month old puppy laying in my bathroom trying to cool down. And she didn't even ask if she's okay. I don't know what this poor pup went through
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    over the month and a half that Maya has been gone. When I first got her she was terrified of every movement I made, terrified of her harness, terrified of
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    the dog toys. It took her over a week to come out of her shell. She barely let me pet her over the first week. She would only eat if I
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    was not in the room. She would only go out in the yard if I moved away from the door. She wouldn't lay in the same room as me. I gave her complete run of the house. I
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    made sure she couldn't chew on anything and just let her have run of the house. After a week I finally got her to trust me enough where I can pet her. She's been with me
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    for almost a month now and she's so cuddly. She has not wanted to leave my side. She refuses to walk past the EP house when we go for a walk. She loves
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    all the dogs and she loves to play. She's now about 7 months old. She's come out of her shell so much. She loves her harness, she has never had an
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    accident in the house, she will eat when I'm in the room, she doesn't pull very much anymore. She still pulls but she's also still a puppy. She still flinches every now
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    and then when I pet her head but after I pet her a few times she calms down and stops flinching. Her name before I got her was Honey. Her current name is
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    Karma. Karma fits perfectly into my home and is such a sweet dog. She's not so little anymore but she's such a cute little dog. I'm not sure what she's
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    mixed with and we'll find out soon enough when the DNA test I ordered gets here. My brother is a vet and has taken a look at her and she's
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    healthy. She has a vet appointment in a few days to get shots up to date and a microchip. Karma fits in perfectly and I couldn't have asked for a better pup to
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    add to my home. Update on Karma: She's doing so much better. She has all of her shots and her microchip. The vet found a slight heart murmur. So slight
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    they didn't catch it the first time. They said it won't bother her but they are going to keep an eye on it when she has yearly checkups. She loves playing.
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    She is very energetic and will play all day if you let her. I took her to a baseball park that is near my house. It doesn't have a fence and since I've only had
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    her for just over a week, I don't trust her off leash but she was on a 50 foot lead. She loved all the smells. It's hard to imagine that less than a week ago she
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    didn't trust me or want anything to do with me. I can't wait to take her hiking when this is all over. She has become very attached to my Australian Shepherd,
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    Mayhem. I let my dogs sleep with me but they also have beds around the room because none really like to spend all night on the bed, except Karma. She
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    starts the night at the bottom or in the middle of the bed and when I wake up she's on the pillow right next to me. Her training is going
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    very well. It clicker train all my dogs and at first she was terrified of the clicking noise but after a few times she realized it wouldn't hurt her and now
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    she loves the clicker because it means she gets a treat. Because her old "owner" let her use the bathroom in the house she isn't potty trained. She had an accident in the
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    house. It was my fault, I went to the bathroom instead of taking the dogs out to use the bathroom and she peed inside. Thankfully my house is all wood floors so it was easy to clean
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    up but she hid and cowered away from me after she did it. I wasn't mad, I've had dogs all my life and have raised puppies, it's normal. So we have started potty
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    training at the beginning. Every 2 hours I take her out to go potty and she hasn't had an accident since.
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