My husband (fiancé at the time) and I were up North going to Bowling Green State University.  During a trip to visit family back in Texas, we saw an ad in the paper for a free terrier mix to a good home.  The ad said he was already fixed, housetrained, and current on all shots.  We were looking for a dog and figured it was too good to be true.  We went and saw him and took him home with us and then to school in Ohio.  Even though the previous owner said that her daughters were allergic to him, they had him for over a year and just now thought the “allergies” were too much and had to get rid of him (for free, no less).  I thought there might be something else going on but we loved him anyway.  Turns out, Spanky has a very major anxiety issue and a very minor seizure disorder.  In the plane on the way to Ohio, he busted out of his under-seat carrier and took a walk down the aisle.  If left inside home alone, unconfined to a crate, he destroys anything he can reach.  I quickly guessed that these were probably the reasons he was so willingly given away.  Loving him as much as we did, we were able to work around all these things and he now has a very high quality of life with a family that would go to the ends of the Earth for him (sometimes it feels like we’ve made the trip a couple times J).  Some of Spanky’s best features include: excellent obedience (most of the time), total loyalty, and awesome chick magnet for our single friends.

Spanky is our angel and, as far as I’m concerned, the perfect dog.