Last dog

Was reading another blog where dogs were mentioned and it made me recall the last dog I had. It came from a litter of pups that a dog my mother insisted I take.
It was the runt of the litter and I do believe the neighbor dog had something to do with it. I had homes for the rest of the litter but this one I wanted a special home for - no children since it was shy - maybe an older couple. I started calling it precious and two years later decided that it had found a home - with me.
She thought she was a person. When you talked to her she would move her mouth like she was trying to talk back.
When she was little I had to go to the bathroom in a hurry and she followed me in there and started to use the bathroom also! She just thought well that was where she was suppose to go. It wasn't hard to get her to go outside - she was a smart dog.
We went to the store one day and when we returned she was outside - I had left the window behind the couch open and she knocked the screen out. I was afraid she had hurt herself falling out the window but it wasn't a long fall and there was a bush there to cushion it. After the window incident when ever she wanted to go out instead of going to the door she would climb on the back of the couch and try to go through the window. I finally had to move the couch so she would start going to the door again.

When I had to leave and go to an abuse shelter I had to leave her behind - it broke my heart. My ex said that he found her a good home with an older couple - I hope so - I really loved that little dog.