Tory Says Hi to Sophia

Tell Sophia her sister Tori likes her photo!

Rebecca Bazell

Tori Likes Her Treats

Post by Ellen Hoving Thelin.

Tori's Wished

Post by Northeast Boston Terrier Rescue.

Tori is Adopted

Congratulations to Tori, who has found her forever home with her Foster Mama Rebecca Bazell.  We're thrilled that Tori will be forever loved and cherished.

Tori is of the sweetest, cutest, funniest Boston Terriers you will ever meet. She is shy at first, but quickly becomes a funny clown, and yes, her tongue sticks out a lot of time!

 She is brilliant, too: taught to be housebroken, to "sit" and to walk on a leash in just a few days. Her favorite thing in the world is to hang out with humans and have her belly rubbed.

Tori was a puppy mill mama, born and raised in the same mill where she was forced to breed. She had five litters in four years. She didn't have any toys or chews, so her teeth are ground down to the nubs.

For the first time in her life, Tori gets to be a puppy herself. And boy, does she appreciate the good life! She ADORES people and her favorite thing in the world is to snuggle on the couch and be held.

Thanks to Rebecca, she will have this life forever more!

Tori

Foster Mom Rebecca Bazell, who is helping this former puppy mill beauty Tori to find a new life, submitted these pictures of Tori. Thank you so much, Rebecca, for all that you are doing! What a personality has emerged!

Update on Tori

Some of you remember l'il Tori only has nubs for teeth from chewing on the crate for years. Yesterday they were cleaned and they are now pearly-white! She had to have two of the bottom front pulled, so she's a little stoned on tramadol but doing fine. Thank you NEBTR!

She's been so happy recently. Very relaxed and more confident. She still doesn't yet have the stamina of other Bostons her age. Her favorite activities are lounging, sleeping in and having her stomach rubbed. Chasing toys & running bore her. Working on getting her more fit, been taking longer walks. Of course in this weather, things are a bit limited.

Picture taken in the elevator (she much prefers elevators to stairs).

Hope everyone's staying cool!

Rebecca Bazell

Tori's Surgery

Tori's spay was extremely difficult because her uterus was ADHERED to her bladder and had to be separated (from so many pregnancies).  She was under for a long time so Dr Silverman decided to forgo the teeth cleaning so as not to prolong the anesthesia.

Said it went fine, bladder is in tact.

It's a) a miracle she got rescued when she did, another pregnancy would probably have been lethal and this vet is really great.

Poor girlie. I promise to give her lots of TLC tonight (I made her some organic chicken breast last night).

Rebecca Bezell

More on Tori

More Tori photos. Our former mill-girl is turning into a real city-dog-about town. She loves belly rubs and & swimming. She is endlessly amused and confused by mirrors- stand and barks at them or sits & stares at her reflection (she is so pretty, who can blame her?) She's doing great, learned to sit, housebreaking has been a piece of cake-no accidents & no more poop- eating. Her confidence is much improved and she loves long walks.

Recently, she went swimming for the first time and loved it!

She's still skittish with loud noises and tends to want to run, even on the leash, if she hears something loud. It's hard to get her attention outside, even with treats. At home, when I take out the leash/it's time to go, she runs to her crate and cowers & trembles, still has some PTSD in that department.I need to coax/ carry her out but once outside, she has a ball.

Rebecca Bezell

Tori, a former puppy mill mama lived in a crate for 3 years goes to a river for the first time and discovers she loves to swim. Miraculous!

Tori is doing phenomenally well! Just learned how to sit, loves rolling around on her back in her dog bed and comes to work each day. None of her teeth need to be pulled (whew). If only that puppy mill owner could see her now!

Rebecca Bazell

New Foster, Tori

I am so happy, I chased my first squirrel today!

A human bed, it's so comfy and clean!  And there is a nice human who lets me cuddle with her; though she has given me my very own bed, it's really great to try all these new things provided for my ease and enjoyment.  No more nasty, dirty cages like the puppy mill factory where I used to live, yucch.....

Rebecca reports on Tori, who has become a City Girl!

Tori is in Brooklyn and she's ADORABLE, having a great time tossing around a
squeak toy and rolling around on her back in her new bed.

She was great on her first Brooklyn walk, said hi to everyone, especially people
who were sitting on their brownstone stoops- she ran up and gave everyone a
kiss. Also gentle and sweet with other dogs, male & female!

She was/is a little weirded out by the elevator, which must seem like a space
ship.

Thank you to all who helped get her here, especially Brad, Jerrilyn and Dawn. And Rebecca, her foster mom!

Update on Tori

Tori is starting to relax a little.  She loves this rubber squeaky toy and was throwing it around the kitchen while was making supper.  Any time I moved however, she would grab it and run in her crate.

Trust me Tori...I don't want that slimy thing.

-- Dawn Stone

New Foster Tori

Tori is rescued, on her way to a happy life, FREEDOM!

Tori experiences grass for the first time after living for years as a mill dog, confined to a cage, kept as a puppy manufacturing machine.

Tori has some health issues, brought on by years of mistreatment and neglect, but she's smiling because she knows the good folks at NEBTR will take care of them before they find her a loving home, living life as a beloved dog, rather than part of a factory.

And she thanks all those kind people from NEBTR who reached out to give her love!

And she loves the idea of grass, wonderful invention, sure beats living on wire grids, surrounded by suffering pups!