OMG, YOU and your SO are total saints!!!💗 What a lucky little girl!!!💕

She reminds me of our first dog when I was little. Black with brown eyebrows and brown legs. My brother named her Bootsie.😍

I did consider "tootsie"

Poor baby.....she's adorable. I'd buy dewormer at Petsmart and a tick collar just to get her started. Make an appointment for spading her, it might take 6 weeks to get her in. Take her into the pet store to pick out a stuffed toy or squeeky toy or tug of war rope...maybe all 3. I'm so glad your giving her a home. Merry Christmas! 🎄

Hugs all around❤️

So cute!!

Nicole I think she is too young to be spayed. She is smaller than what she appears in the pictures. I really cannot tell, especially not knowing what breed/breeds she is how old she might be. Leo was bigger than her at 4 or 5 months, but he is a huge dog. The person I spoke to at the vet said they will assess her age and do appropriate vaccines and stuff, and depending on her age, make an appointment for her to be spayed.

So cute, and ”Cookie” is a great name!

Cookie is a cute name but I like Tootsie too. A lucky little girl.

@amylou321 Oh my gosh! She must be your Thanksgiving “Pumpkin”! You’ll remember this Thanksgiving season for the rest of your life - and hers. As an animal lover & care advocate, I am so thankful for people like you. I’m thinking the same as @dedtired - “How do pups end up in these situations?”

TBH since she was all alone i think she was just dumped. I feel a little bad because SOs coworker who had been feeding her REALLY wanted her, and the pup REALLY loved him. When she was eating the crackers SO gave her, the coworker pulled in and she took off running after his truck, tail wagging. So she really chose him. But i supposed he married someone who is not a animal fan, so what can you do? She will get used to us.

Amy, She will indeed get very used to you very quickly. A couple of days of warm beds and regular good food & she’ll bond with you & her other past will become a fading memory. You - and she - are fortunate that your SO has such a kind and warm heart. Her time with the co-worker would’ve been short and not secure because he couldn’t offer her a long term safe harbor even though he was kind to provide her food and some help as he could.

Amy, thank you. You've raised your share of puppies, is there some kind of gentle dewormer you could start her on with a dose before getting her into the vet?

morz- yes. I ordered some wormer from Chewy. The seemingly endless overtime I have been working the last three months has left me unwilling to wake up any earlier than I have to in order to go into town to a pet store. Luckily, it shipped already and will be here soon. I was told by the vet (or the girl who answered the phone) that you really cant overdo worm medicine. Not the kind you buy OTC, so as soon as it arrives she will get a dose. And maybe another before the vet visit, depending on how well she does eating and gaining weight.

Congratulations on your new baby!

Aww what a sweet story. Happy addition to your family.

She is adorable. Keep us posted.

I like all the names mentioned, and if I had to choose one of them would go with Tootsie.

(I do like using really old names for dogs- such as Mable, Selma, Sylvia, etc)

what a nice looking pup. You can see what she’s like, her personality, before naming her. Meanwhile, you can call her Lucky.

she is adorable!! what a lucky little girl that she ended up where she found love. congrats to you and a big THANK YOU for taking her in.

i would caution you to keep her confined to your home/yard until she has been fully vaccinated to prevent her from coming in contact with diseases. parvo is rampant everywhere and can quickly kill a young puppy.

are you going to do a DNA test? i'd be so curious to know what breed(s) she is.

Congratulations! What a sweetie she is. Please don't give her any de-worming meds without seening a vet first. OTC meds can be harmful and I would definitely be cautious if she is not eating well. It would be awful to make her sick or worse after all she has been through already. If she has heartworms, deworming meds could kill her. I woud head to the walk-in vet before doing anything.

Our 7-year-old lab mix came to us 7 years ago in much the same way. He and his sitsters had been dumped in S.C. and a friend called to see if we wanted a puppy. "Ummm, no. We have two dogs already." "But they are going to take him to the pound-no one wants a male dog and the sisters are all taken. He will be put down." Sheesh. She knew me too well. So she brought him to us Thanksgiving weekend. He sheds too much and drools, but what a joy he is for us and I am sure she will be a joy for you as well.

i don't think there are any otc dewormers that kill heartworms but i agree that you should at least have a stool sample analyzed before you give any medications. you will have to have a blood draw done to check for the presence of heartworms and medications are only via Rx from your vet should she (hopefullly NOT) test positive. there is a very strict protocol of rest/minimum activity when a dog is going through heartworm treatment.

honestly, i think i would go to the vet who has an opening sooner, if possible. she should have a complete blood count done and a fecal float. so much can be determined with simple blood tests and would set your mind at ease as far as her health and if she is wormy, the vet can provide the meds that target the specific parasites.

You are kind to take her in. People like you are one more thing for me to add to my list of thankfulness.

Adorable! I'd call her Lucky as she was so lucky to find you!

Congratulations and like it's been said before, that is a really nice thing for you to do.

Tootsie made me think of toes and toes made me think of toe beans, so I would suggest Beans. She is adorable. I hope all goes well for you.

She's darling and I love the name Cookie. She's a lucky girl.

A lot of drivers have cats and dogs as co-drivers. Some even have paw prints painted on the passenger door. What a shame she was dumped. But she found the right home now!

Cookie and Tootsie are both adorable names.

Welcome home little girl!!

Congrats Amy!

What a pretty pup - she looks like a sweetie 🙂

She's adorable! Hope it all works out for you.

Any updates on how the little one is getting along....? Photos...she's adorable....

Maybe you can get a stool sample to your vet? I know that our vet will let me do that if I think she needs a test done, quicker than having to make an appointment. Also, maybe they could call you if they have a cancellation? I'd ask the receptionist if that's possible, especially if she's acting like she's ill!

Circling back to see if you've decided on a name.

Shes doing well. Definitely settled in. Knows she's never gonna go hungry. She's got some sass now, which is great! It's a sign she feels comfortable around us! No name decision yet. When my sister came to collect the food I had made for her thanksgiving, she suggested "Holly" because she arrived around christmas,so that's in the running too.

Pepper? short for Peppermint? Ginger? But Cookie, you can do so much with that. cookie dough, cookie mookie, sugar cookie, ya need options for endearments! But, you mentioned she has sass. Sassy? That’s cute, if she doesn’t mind the Ss. ”Coooookieeeee” sounds good when you are calling her.

I am leaning towards Cookie. But I want to be 100% sure.

Cookie, Ginger, Noel, Sugar. Where I live, by law you can’t take possession of a stray pet unless you search for an owner for 30 days. She probably was dumped but be aware of local law.

Meh. Who's gonna snitch on me? The ones that threw her away?

She looks like a Tootsie to me...lol

Local story of a puppy found by a dumpster, in the rain. Adopted THAT same day....!!! Cute story. Cute puppy! Link-click

Kudos for giving pup a loving home Amy...💞💞💞💞

She's really a pretty pup! I kinda like the name Cookie too. Glad she found her forever home, that security means so much to dogs.

I have hereby declared her "Countess Cookie Sugar-face, The Looney Lady of LaLa Land." Cookie for short.

I got her a beautiful pink collar and harness and leash. She is not a fan of any of that, though she is a fan of the pink donut chew toy she received today.

Great name! I particularly love when the "extra" names become part of their names. All our dogs have been mostly called their names but also stinky, looney, wimpy, etc etc. I really like Sugar-face.

What a wonderful thing…. Cookie finding a loving home. She is so adorable! What a cute pup! Thankfully her path crossed with your SO and his friend, which led her to you…..she has a safe and loving home. Thanks to you!

I'll be anxious for updates on Cookie. Lucky pup and bad karma to the cretins who dumped her. I wish all dogs who are dumped find kind people like you two.

She’ll need a charm-bracelet style collar to hold all those names! Love it!

Got in touch with an old schoolmate of mine, who is a vet at an emergency clinic a couple hours away. He told me it was fine to give her the wormer I bought, so I did a couple days ago. 2 chewable tablets, which she took from my hands very daintily and ate them like a GOOD GIRL!!!

She is really happy here i think. She "talks" a lot. Sounds like a gremlin.

And she is eating like a horse. I usually free feed all my pets, but I think i will have to work up to that with her. She prefers being outside, probably because that is what she is used to. That is fine, we have lots of fenced in space and heated dog houses. We will work up to her being in the house more as well, if she wants. Our old man 13 year old dog would rather be outside as well. Her and him both pace constantly by the doors while they are inside. They have to come in at night now as it gets too cold for me to be comfortable with them out there, even with the heated houses, and neither are fans of the inside life. Leo is a house dog through and through.

She is still isolated from the others, though they can see each other through the fences outside and through the baby gate inside. None of them really have excessive interest in each other though, which is also just fine.

She is pretty smart. No accidents in the house, learned to sit and wait very fast. Though she forgets her manners when food is involved. No aggression or anything like that. Just a rush to get to it. I can take it away without issue and she will sit again, But I cant mix her food up in front of her as I can the other dogs. By the time I empty a can into the bowl, I go and reach for the dry food and the canned food will be gone, and vice versa. We will work on that. And knows her name after one day. She is not doing well on leash training, but that is to be expected. She will learn.

She's got really thick, very soft fur, so I ordered some brushes. My other dogs are short haired and the cat brush....well it belongs to our cat, His Grace George Percival Toebeans, Duke of Orange and Earl of Ginger. So I ordered her her own.

So overall doing great. I certainly wasn't in the market for another pet, but when life hands you a puppy, you take care it it....or something.

“…but when life hands you a puppy, you take care of it....or something.”

teeny tears here. “❤️

She's not getting spoiled at all :-)

She hit the puppy jackpot, getting to live with you. 😊

Cookie ain’t no Rookie. It appears that she has made herself at home very quickly. Love her name.

There is nothing in this world that can match the love of an animal. Congratulations on the new baby.