Molly and Priscilla the blind Poodles
Molly and Priscilla were filthy, matted and skinny when they were turned into a Fort Worth shelter. They were about to be euthanized when a kind-hearted lady named Mary S. learned about their fate and rescued them. The girls clearly had been through a lot.
Although the shelter had already bathed them, Mary told us that when she went to pick them up "their smell of urine was so strong – I could barely have them in my car. They were so horribly matted and nasty – ears infected, kennel cough, about 15 lbs underweight…I don't think they had ever been on grass. I think the puppy mill where they must have come from had just kept them in cages and let urine and feces pile up till it just saturated their bodies. When I got them to my vet, he discovered they were both blind due to them bumping into every wall and door."
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This is what they looked like when they first arrived at the shelter.
Mary had them groomed and spayed, and took care of them for a month. Then she placed the sisters with a Poodle rescue group in Mississippi. A few months later that group contacted us about the girls, and we agreed to fly them to Montana. At the airport we met two gorgeous standard Poodles who were just as sweet as could be.
Once here, the girls fell in love with Trooper, a long-eared hound with a deep baying voice. Priscilla, the tan one, fell for Trooper first. We're not sure why, because he's ungainly, willful, and up to no good much of the time. But every morning Priscilla would race out of the cottage after Trooper to play with him. Then Molly decided she wanted to share Priscilla's boyfriend, and now she runs after Trooper, too. They follow this boy everywhere.
Trooper acts nonchalant about all this female attention, as if he expected them to fall for him. (And yes, he is the kind of guy who'd date two sisters at the same time.) It's a peculiar sight, these two elegantly groomed, refined-looking girls swooning over this hound dog. They are blind, though, so as Elvis might have said, maybe they just don't know he ain't nothing but a hound dog.
Posted September 2008.
