Female Maltese Chihuahua - Sophie

by Alicia
(Rome NY)

Sophie is a year and a half old female Maltese Chihuahua and about 2lbs. She is gorgeous all around. Very well mannered and behaved and always lifts her front left paw as if she is little miss priss someone called it. I got her by going on craigslist and drove about an hour to pick her up then had second thoughts. I was gonna call my friend and ask her if everything I saw was normal. But didn't and gave them 100 bucks without even tryin to negotiate a lower price just to get her out of there. I guess her original owner died and had 3 dogs and 2 cats. So they were all split up between siblings homes and ironically I was going to check out her mom that was posted on cl and the 2 sisters didn't even know the other had posted. Anyway I believe we have saved each other, even though she is really my daughters now and is VERY VERY protective of her. She does have Chihuaha ears. But smaller. But we don't call them ears, we call them wings as she is just such an angel. My Maltese Chihuahua is very docile and loves being groomed as we did A LOT of that for a few weeks just to get her "normal" and her tail waggin. When I bought her, I thought her legs were broke as her hiney was toward the floor and her tail tucked under up to her tummy. My Malchi also had a bright red open sore on her front knee that they didn't notice. Even though they had just given her a flea bath. Yeah and they gave her a flea bath 1x a week. NOT!! She was infested. Anyway back to her leg. By them licking a wound for whatever reason the wound was from to begin with, licking releases good feeling endorphins but we healed her wound very quickly and after a week or so she no longer licks. Which is VERY rare, I've read anyway. So that's Sophie. Wish I could have named her. Her name would be Fancy and I want a big female dog someday named Krissy. Can't name a little one Krissy, but that will be after we own our own place with a yard. Oh and when I got her, her nails were an inch and a half long. See I don't know much about dogs but I knew something wasn't right. So we got her home I clipped 1 lil piece of hair going over each eye so she could actually see and spruced her up lil by lil. Very happy now and so content.