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I was fostering for a local rescue organization when we picked up a skinny foxhound. She was given the name Eve because our organization decided to take her for rescue the night before she gave birth to nine puppies. Her former owner had dumped her at a high kill shelter, saying, "She's pregnant. We don't know how, and now we don't want her."

When she and the puppies were separated, I was asked if I had room for her. She was with us for under 24 hours when I realized that I had bitten off more than I could chew. She had no conception of any house training or social skills. She was afraid of everything. Doorways, boxes, noises, people, thunder, the food bowl, treats, you name it.

She weighed 32 pounds and you could see every bone in her poor body. She had been badly mistreated and was terrified of men. She wouldn't even enter a room if a man was in it. We tried to see if there was another foster home available for her that was quieter, and there wasn't. We felt completely hopeless, but my 6-year-old pit/Lab had already decided that she was his and started to love her back to health. They became inseparable.

Slowly, she started to come around with us. She began to smile, groan, and dance when she wanted attention; drape herself across you when you sat down; and learn to fold herself into funny shapes while playing. Five months later, on the morning she was to meet a prospective family, I opened my eyes to see her smiling face begging me wake up for some snuggle time. That's when I decided that she was staying if she was not a fit for the new home.

The woman who had applied, a family friend, said, "It's clear to me that to separate you would kill both of you." From then on, Eve has been ours. She has stolen the hearts of neighbors and friends alike with her silly smiling face and will be taken care of forever.

Story submitted by Erica Anderson from Millsboro, Delaware.

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