My Nonprofit Reviews

We adopted Bella back in 2013. She had been bred/milled, dumped and left to fend for herself. She was underweight, dehydrated and couldn't walk when she was rescued. Surgery removed 17 foxtails from one rear paw alone. SPGPC took her in, got her treated and got her ready for adoption. My family took her in.

Thankfully, Great Pyrenees are strong willed dogs, and Bella was a Great Pyrenees' Great Pyrenees. It took some time, but she found her confidence and she found a way to trust people again. Bella was ~ 5 years old when we got her and lived until she was 12. She was a loyal and stoic dog. She took her guard duties VERY seriously. She was never mean to people, but you better not be a trespassing raccoon or fox because you were not welcome and you would be dealt with quickly. And package thieves also got a very rude awakening, thinking that they could help themselves to a box on the porch that a Pyrs was camped out on. Just seeing a 105 lbs, big white dog as the approached the portico sent the scurrying like the vermin they are.

(by the way, the box was empty, but they didn't know that and didn't want to stick around to find out)

Lastly, Bella was a loyal and loving dog. I was greeted in a subdued but loving way, and no one else in the house ever received the loving greeting I got (I was relentlessly teased that Bella loved me the best....and she did, because she has good taste...LOL). She loved her dog friends and was very playful with them. It was the hardest decision in my life to put her down. Cancer had come to her and though she fought it off for 2 years, she didn't have anything left to give.

I miss her every day. She had such a calm and loving presence in my home and in my heart, and she is conspicuous in her absence.