Follow Up: Queenie (her Story)

When i look at the photos of Queenie on the website, i can't believe this is the same girl who's so blissfully snoring on my sofa at this very moment! she has come so far in such a short time - jamie and lisa, you wouldn't recognize her! she's put on weight like a pro and is down to 2 drops a day. and in true boxer fashion, will cozy right up to whoever wants to take a nap on the sofa! she wiggles from head to toe and does this thing where she wiggles herself in and out of the room at least 100 times when you come home even if you only went down to take out the garbage (she apparently has no concept of time). she's developed the sweetest relationship with the 6-year-old who lives downstairs. they are inseparable and our fridge is covered with pictures jasmine's made for queenie! we can't imagine how anyone could have given this wonderful girl up, but not a day goes by that we don't thank god and boxer rescue for giving us the opportunity to bring this sweet thing into our home and lives. she is just so special!!!! enjoy the pix!!!!

http://www.boxerrescue.com/availdogs/OCT02/QueenieNY1002.htm

hi sandy, (07/05/03)
i'm sitting here with tears in my eyes from reading brandy's story - my own "little defect" is snoring happily on the sofa. last october, having lost our white princess, dolly, to cardiomyopathy, we adopted queenie from nbr. maybe you remember her - she's the brindle girlie with diabetes insipidus who had lived in a garage for 3 years because she drank a lot of water and wasn't housebroken. i just want to tell you how right you are about those "imperfect" dogs. queenie was in rough shape when she found her way into rescue, but thanks to jamie and mark meadow and all the great care she received at meadow veterinary hospital, by the time we picked her up she was already on the road to recovery and ready to be spoiled rotten! it wasn't so easy the first few months. the day we picked her up she went into heat (she still wasn't healthy enough to be spayed) and you can imagine how dazed and confused she must have been. new people, new home, new medicine, menstrual, new cat that hissed and growled at her whenever she came near, etc. and she had many accidents in the house (and even on the sofa) even though she went out many times in between. we knew that all she needed was time enough to figure out that we were going to love her no matter what and that she was always going to live in the house with us as close by as she wanted us to be and that her accidents only meant that we had to keep lots of paper towels on hand. and as the days became weeks and the weeks became months, she made progress that we could see every day. after this many months on the daily medication, the accidents have become the exception rather than the rule (she will probably always have accidents, though, due to her condition) and she has mellowed out so much and is now the typical boxer in every way. as long as she gets her meds every day she can stand next to any boxer and you couldn't tell which one is the "little defect." we were devastated when our dolly died, and we knew that this boxer household wouldn't be happy without a boxer in it. when we saw queenie on the website, she was our dog from the start. her "little defect" was never an issue. i hope your brandy beats her cancer and you enjoy many more years of wiggles from her. please keep on urging everyone to look at the special needs and older dogs. bringing one of them home is like finding buried treasure. thank you. Annie