Puppet

Puppet

#4496
Chihuahua Mix
Female
Small (6-20 lbs)
Status: Adopted for hospice care

This chunky chi girl is Puppet and she needs your help getting back in shape before summer time! This sweet girl was obviously loved (and overfed) by her previous owner, but sadly they could no longer care for her and surrendered her for adoption to the Central California SPCA. From there, she came to Muttville and settled right in! Puppet does great with other dogs and loves making new friends. She is great with people of all ages and is a loving girl. All Puppet needs now is a family to call her own!

Puppet is 9+ years young and weighs about 17 pounds.

Here is what Puppet’s amazing foster has to say about her:

Puppet enjoys going on walks, and being outside. As she’s lost weight, she’s starting to run and be much more energetic.

She absolutely adores people. Gets extremely excited to be petted and wags her tail like crazy and wiggles around. It’s very irresistible.

She always wants to be with you and will follow you around from room to room, wherever you go. If you’re on the couch, she just wants to be snuggled up next to you.

I’ve never heard her bark, and she’s good at home alone.

She likes other small, calm dogs. But wouldn’t be good in a household with puppies or any dog too energetic. She will growl and bare her teeth and tell them to back off.

For the most part, she’s good with my cats (though she will chase a bird or cat outside!) but if she’s on the couch getting attention, and the cats come for attention, she will growl and be defensive. This is fine to me, my cats are used to lots of dogs and don’t care, but for some cat ladies, they might not like this.

Overall, Puppet is so cute. Sometimes she even plays with toys! I think she’d be happy being a couch potato for the rest of her life, but if someone wanted a dog to take on walks (and she loses more weight) she’d be great for that too. She’s just a very easy, super affectionate girl.

Watch Puppet following her foster mom around Muttville!
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