I went to adopt a dog today. Her name is Sophie. She is a double dapple dashund. She is partially bline in one eye and had a tumor on her chest. She was in a puppy mill. She is half white and half light brown. She is adorable. It akes me so sad that these poor dogs had to live thier entire lives in 2x4 cage and were only there to breed. Can you imagion spending the equivelent of 20 years locked in your bathroom? with only someone coming near you to feed you, clean your cage and to make you breed. Sophie was there for 5 years. Thats the equivelent to 35 years in human years locked in a tiny cage. She was siezed from a puppy mill in New York state. My mom and i drove 45 minutes to get 2 puppies from that mill, because we wanted to adopt the puppies from a shelter or something. But the porcess was so complicated that we coudlnt take Sophie home today. They have to do a background check and call your vet to make sure youll take care of your puppy. i stood by her cage for 2 hours while my mom tried to get the paperwork done. I hope we can actually adopt her because shes the puppy you walk in and see and imediently want to bring home and love. My dog, dottie, had to be put down in february. On my dads birthday. We had her for 12 years and i miss her so much still. She was a major part of our family that we had her cremated and her ashes are in my room. I couldnt bare the face that she woud be buried in the yard or something. And i couldnt have her cremated and placed in my closet, thats what you do with ugly sweaters, not pets. And oddly enough her being in my room dosnt bother me in the slightest. Thinking about her too much startes to make me cry. My dad hes been secretly taking about getting 2 puppies from this place because they had such a horrible life at the mill. And every time i would come near them he wouldnt talk about it because he was afraid i would get my hopes up. i miss Dottie, and i would love to care for Sophie and another dog here that had to live at that horrible puppy mill.