MIMI [Aged 6 years]

Adopted by
Julie Pagan
12 Dec 2010

Fostered by: Thelma Rampant (near Canberra)

Her story:
Mimi & Snoopy were surrendered to Beagle Rescue NSW as their owner was in a rental property and could not make the fences secure. Snoopy was adopted separately.

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Notes from Mimi's new family:

4 October 2011

     

Mimi has been with me since mid December 2010 and it has been an absolute pleasure to watch her bloom into the happy, confident dog that she is today. When she joined me, she was reserved and timid. She was frightened by my two cats (with reason), and wouldn’t make a noise. Her foster carer had said that she didn’t seem to have a voice as she had never been heard to bark.

After a couple of weeks Mimi recognised that my home is her home and started defending it with full bark and howl alarm when anyone walked past the front gate. She has now settled down and, in typical beagle style, she greets known visitors with a bark and a whole-body-wag, and only “alarms” at unknown people entering past the gate.

She’s really come out of her shell with other dogs too, she’s been learning how to initiate play, and looks forward to a “rumble” in the park with a Labrador pal. She’s great mates with the cats now… I even saw her cleaning the ears of one of them. They have a game which they play when Mimi and I return home from a walk. I let Mimi into the house with her lead attached. She walks down the corridor while the cats play “catch and release” with the lead. Mimi will turn around and lie down facing them, barking and wagging until they give up the lead and then turns around...... and it begins again.

Mimi is now down to svelte 12 kg. She’s eager for her morning walk and sniff around the neighborhood, preceded by her morning face rub, and followed by her favourite time of the day – breakfast time. Other than that, Mimi has become my shadow. When I move from room to room, she gets up and follows me and then flops down looking for a tummy rub. A friend seeing this for the first time thought that she had a epilepsy. “No” I told him, “She’s just looking for love….. and knows where to get it”.

Julie
Mimi's new "mum"



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