So, to make a long, long story very very short. We don't believe Trixie was ever "lost" - just adopted by an evil, evil woman....who we battled with via phone, email and finally in person. A late night trip to St Louis to rescue her (with the help of a nice police officer) while Angela (Genesis Adoption Coordinator) and the policeman were arguing with evil lady I rescued Trixie from Evil Lady's car and ran back and hopped in our car! Yeah!!! She was very, very HAPPY!!! She licked my face all the way home. If she was a cat - there went one of her lives.
THEN, I just let her adjust for a few weeks, then I struggled do I keep her? Do I not? Tried to tell myself that it wasn't fair to Jovie - didn't have her trained yet....so we put her back up for adoption. Took her to a Petsmart Adoption event (where this photo was taken) and she sat on my lap for most of the day. When I realized that I couldn't see myself handing her over again - I paid her adoption fee and renamed her ZEVA. John says I should have named her Dory - for the character in "Finding Nemo" movie - the one with short term memory loss. It seems that Zeva has a short term memory problem. She can be trotting toward the door to you - but if you lose eye contact - she forgets where she was going and wanders off.
So - stay tuned for the next post with the continuing Zeva saga....
