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　　Spookums is a shy 9 month old cattle dog/lab mix. Spookums is a puppy, that had puppies. She was a teen mom taking care of her three puppies as a stray. You could only imagine how hard life has been for this sweet girl! She is not very big and about 20-25lbs, her puppies were almost as big as her! She had to protect her puppies against predators, getting sick, and making sure they had food to eat. Sweet Spookums was found but was too scared to be caught, and would run away. Finally her and her 5week old pups were rescued!! She was brought to a shelter where she was terrified of her surroundings as everything was new to her. She got a full vet check, as well as her puppies. They are all healthy despite being young on the streets! When asked to take Spookums into our rescue we were sent a video of her and her puppies. She was cowering in the back corner of her kennel, you could tell she wanted someone to save her, so that is just what we did!! She has been in a foster home, she is still very nervous and scared of new things. She is slowly learning people aren't so scary. She will be a wonderful, very loyal companion! Once she warms up she is very loving, and affectionate. This sweet girl never got to be a puppy herself, and has spent her life defending for herself, and keeping her babies safe. Now that she is rescued she can relax! She can be the puppy she never got to be! From her foster: Thank you for taking this sweet girl. She was terrified of people when I first got her. It took me 2 days to get her to come out of her kennel. When she did she ran to some tall ground cover and tried to hide. It was sad to see a dog so afraid of humans. She is relaxed and happy now. She is very sweet and happy to receive affection now. She prefers to go outside to potty and pee. She is still a little frightened outside of the yard or house. She just needs a little time to trust. This sweet girl will be available at our adoption event this coming Saturday at the Fort Collins Petco 2211 S. College Ave from 10am-1pm. If you are interested in this friendly girl, please submit an application through our website aaanimalrescue.org. Please feel free to email with any questions [email protected] and size disclosure: As a rescue all of our dogs come to us from high-kill shelters or other rescues, so we do not get a lot of background or information on these dogs. We occasionally receive the mother with the puppies, but in most cases both parents are unknown. Because of this we do not know the full breeding of the dogs. We are required to list the dogs based on the breeds provided to us on their records, but they are all mixed breeds as far as we know, and we cannot guarantee the actual breeds of any of these dogs. Since the full breeding of the dogs is unknown we can also only give you an educated guess on the full-grown size of the dogs. All of the current information we have on the dogs is listed in their bio above. More information may be available at our adoption event, since a lot of the fosters turn in report cards on how the dog has done in their care when they drop them off. Adoption Process: If you are interested in adopting from us, the first step of our adoption process is to fill out an application online at http://aaanimalrescue.org/adoption_app.html. It takes us 24-48 hours to process your application and get back to you, via email. Applications turned in Friday afternoon or Saturday morning will not be processed since we are preparing for or at our adoption event. We do have applications on site at our events, but are not always able to approve them at that time and many of the dogs will already have holds on them, so we suggest you fill out an application prior to attending an adoption event. We can place a hold on one dog per approved applicant after a deposit fee has been received, please do not ask to hold a dog if you have not turned in an application and been approved, for the first hour of our adoption event, so that they can get the first chance to meet and hopefully adopt that dog. After the first hour of the event all dogs are available on a first come, first serve basis. If you already have an approved application on file, there will just be more paperwork and the adoption fee at the event, but you will be able to take home the dog/puppy that day. Since we are foster based and do not have a location, our dogs are only available to meet at our events, unless otherwise noted.