A few days later, at Easter services, we happened to sit in the same row with our former groomer, Wilma. I jokingly said “you don’t know anyone who has a small dog to give away/adopt?” To which she replied, “I just might, give me a couple days & I’ll call you.”
Well…on Tuesday we got the call. A groomer friend of hers knew of someone in Rantoul who had small children and needed to find a home for their 6-month old Shih Tzu. She gave me the number of the person to call. I contacted them the next evening, got all the details about the puppy – Chloe – and relayed all the info to Ron. He then came up with the idea of asking them if we could “try her out for the weekend.” Basically, put down a “deposit” on her, then bring her home and see if it all would really work out.


He had an absolute ball playing with her and that night, he even got his sleeping bag out so he could sleep with her – she of course was in her cage, but that didn’t detour him.

