Coco

My story

CoCo is a yorkie/silky/poodle mix sweetheart who is 9 years old and weighs a chubby 17 lbs. Sweet CoCo is being fostered in Dunedin, FL. UPDATED BIO 12/21/2019: CoCo here with an update: I just don’t understand why my perfect family hasn’t adopted me yet. I’m so sweet and I don’t have a mean bone in my body. I come when I’m called. I play with my siblings. I get along just fine with my cat sister. And I just want a family to call my own. Foster mom says I have a very sad-looking face, but I’m really a happy girl – especially when I’m playing. I even like to do my business outside, but sometimes I have accidents if I don’t get out often enough. Foster Mom here: CoCo came to United Yorkie Rescue in really bad shape. She had a yeast infection that covered her body, ear infections that gave her cauliflower ear, and she had seizures that weren’t controlled by medication. Since arriving in her foster home and many, many baths later, she is completely healed of her yeast infection, ear infections, and has her seizures under control. Since being on the appropriate anti-seizure medication Phenobarbital (which is very inexpensive) she hasn’t had a seizure since September. Hooray! CoCo will need to be on this medication for the rest of her life. If you’re looking for a super sweet, laid-back kinda girl, then maybe we’re a match! And, if you have another furbaby that I can play with, and a yard that we can run around in, that would be even more super-duper. Oh, and as if I wasn’t cute enough, my curls are all growing in and I look adorable! I’ll be waiting on you to submit an adoption application for me. As always, if you can’t adopt, please consider donating to the wonderful rescue group that saved me and so many others every day. Even though I’m doing better, I still have many brothers and sisters out there that need help, too. Can you do it for me - for us…Please donate. And don’t forget. Adopt. Don’t Shop. UPDATED BIO 11/18/2019: CoCo here. I wanted to let everybody know some things about me. I love my foster mommy and daddy and all my four-legged foster friends. Really, I do. But ….. I really want a family to call my own. I don’t know why I haven’t found my purfect home yet, because I’m such a sweet girl - at least foster mom says so and I believe her. I get along great with other dogs, older kids (12 and over), and heck - I even get along with the cat!! I’m not real used to walking on a leash, but foster mom says I’m getting much better at it. I still want to tug a little so I can smell things along the way, but I’m working on that. I love, love, love to play with my foster siblings, so the perfect home for me would have another laid-back, playful doggie. When I play, sometimes I like to bolt through the house really fast, so I need to have some room to do that. I’m also really good at just chilling on the chair next to my foster family. I’m just a quiet young lady who loves to be a snuggle bug. When the nice lady came to pick me up from that awful shelter, I was kind of a mess. I had a yeast infection on most of my body. My ears were infected really bad, and to be honest, I didn’t think I’d ever get out of there. I couldn’t be adopted right away because I needed a lot of medicine and baths, so that’s why United Yorkie Rescue stepped in. Whew…. now, I’m no longer itchy and my hair is growing back, and the really good news is that I didn’t lose any hearing from my bad ear infection. Okay, here’s the really serious part. I started having seizures at my foster family’s home shortly after I got there. Because they weren’t that frequent, the vet decided that I didn’t have to take medicine - yet. But then I had another one, so I had to start taking seizure meds. I love to take my pills, because they taste like Braunschweiger (liverwurst). Hey, wait a minute! You mean there’s pills in my treats?! Whoops, back to the serious stuff. I had one seizure on my medicine and now I just take a little bit more of it, and I haven’t had a seizure since September 15th. So far, my yummy medicine is working. I’ll always be on the medicine, which costs about $11 a month. It hasn’t caused me any problems, so I’m really happy about that. Oh – one more thing. I’m also working on my manners with going potty in the house. As long as I go out often enough, I prefer to do my business outside. I’m just not sure how to tell you I need to go, but I’m trying to figure out that part. It would be good for me to have a home where there is one stay-at-home parent to take me out frequently. Foster mom said that I was a bit too “fluffy” so I am on a food now that doesn’t have as many calories in it so that I can get my girlie figure back. Now that you know everything about me, why don’t you fill out an application and tell me about you and see if we’re a match!? As always, if you can’t adopt, please consider donating to the wonderful rescue group that saved me and so many others every day. Even though I’m doing better, I still have many brothers and sisters out there that need help, too. Can you do it for me - for us…Please donate. And don’t forget. Adopt. Don’t Shop.

If you have any questions or would like to adopt Coco, please reach out to the adoption group directly. PetSmart Charities does not facilitate the adoption process. Thank you.