Pregnant chihuahua mom rescued from puppy mill by family takes her first walk after spending most of life chained to cage, but with love and pets overcame her fear of outside: ‘I was overjoyed, i praised her a lot and her tail started wagging full on.’

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    "I didn't expect her to walk a lot for her first time, i thought she'd make a few steps"
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    Sorry if this is long but i'm bursting with emotions and i just need to tell someone who loves dogs as much as i do. This made me so happy. A little context first till we get to the happy part.
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    I was never allowed a dog as a kid, my mum and dad made excuses that a dog would be destructive and that it will soil everywhere but what they meant was that i was just a kid and i wouldn't be the one taking care of the dog and they both
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    worked so nobody would be able to. Fast forward to 2016, i was never really one to go out with friends a lot and i'm always at home playing some playstation or just doing school work, so when i turned 17
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    and i got my first dog, Luna. She's the light of my life. I love her so much. Now back in august 2019, we decided to adopt a pregnant chihuahua, like our other dog, and then once the puppies
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    are of appropriate age we would home them to somewhere loved and safe. Penny, the rescued chi was so so skittish when we first got her. She was in a puppy mill and caged most of her life, she had cuts on
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    her neck which i suspect that it was caused by being chained to the cage. There were a lot more dogs with her in the cage and i think they used to eat all her food cause she was very
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    protective of her bowl whenever we fed her and ate really fast while looking around, i assume for other dogs. She was scared to be loved, she was so malnourished and so small. A week after we got her she went
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    into labour and needed an emergency c- section. She had two puppies but only one made it. We kept her only puppy with her, she's a mix of a yorkshire and chihuahua and her Iname is Halo, 10
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    months old. So i ended up with three dogs! Since the rescue agency where following through, we took her to their clinic. During her c- section, Penny was spayed so she only
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    had to undergo sury once. We fed her mother dog and baby food so she got a little bit chunky. I didn't really mind because after her c-section i could truly see how malnourished and unhealthy she was,
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    she still had some missing fur, her ribs where showing and her neck was full of cuts. I changed her food once the puppy was weaned and she is now on a maintenance diet to lose weight however penny doesnt get a lot of exercise, she
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    only just recently started to get used to toys so apart from playing with her daughter and a few steps around the house, she did nothing else. I got her used to a harness and tried to
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    take her out but she refused to move. I didn't force her and after a few minutes outside i took her back in and sort of, gave up. I saw her shaking and i was scared i was making her worse. Her daughter Halo, once
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    fully v ☐d started going on walks with Luna and it always made me sad to leave Penny in while i walk the others. Yesterday, with the help of my mum we took all of the dogs
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    out and tried again with Penny. First i held her and we walked while she looked around and got used to the environment, like new smells and fresh air. Then we went to
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    a secluded area without people or cars and let her down. Again she did almost a five full minutes standing there shaking but with a little encouragement from me and mum,
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    lots of praise and pats, she started walking around exploring and following her daughter! I was overjoyed, i praised her a lot and her tail started wagging full on. This continued along the walk. I
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    didn't expect her to walk a lot for her first time, i thought she'd make a few steps and i had to pick her up again. I didn't wanna push her too far and i would have been happy with little
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    steps too but she did it and i was so proud and happy. Now i'm excited for her second walk today!

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