Fettuccine

May 30

Written By Rebecca Prull

Adoption Fee: $150

Breed: Chihuahua

Age: 10 Years Old

Sex: Female

Size: Small

Shots Up To Date: Yes

Spayed/Neutered: Yes

Housetrained: Yes

OK With Kids: Unknown

OK With Dogs: Yes

OK With Cats: Unknown

About Fettuccine

Personality: Affectionate, Curious, Dignified, Friendly, Funny

Fettuccine, our 10 pound 10 year old chihuahua, loves when her people come home. She wiggles her whole body and brings them a stuffed animal - just in case they need one after a long day at work. Then, Fettuccine settles in to her favorite place to be - in her person's arms. Fettuccine is finally healthy enough to find her own family to carry her around.

Found stray, Fettuccine had terrible dental disease. She was also very thin and had two mammary masses that needed to be removed. After weeks of regular meals, Fettuccine was healthy enough for surgery. We spayed her, extracted several painfully infected teeth, and removed her masses. Although one of the masses came back as a low grade carcinoma (cancer), we are hopeful the surgery was curative. Like any dog that has to wait until she's 10 to be spayed, Fettuccine may be prone to more mammary masses in the future.

Fettuccine loves people. She is remarkably cuddly and would prefer to live with someone who wants a chihuahua in their lap every time they sit down. Fettuccine is great on a leash and loves to greet other dogs when out and about.

At home, Fettuccine is tolerant of her dog roommates. However, likely due to her previous starvation, Fettuccine resource guards her food from other dogs. Until she's very comfortable, she also guards people's laps from other dogs. For this reason, Fettuccine may prefer to be the only pet or should live with patient dogs as she decompresses.

Fettuccine is heartworm negative and is current on her flea and heartworm preventatives.

Is there room on your lap for a very deserving chihuahua? Would your day be better if someone handed you a stuffed animal when you got home?