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gigi's so cute
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and donna's the best
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oh my gosh i'm so happy to see her donna
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how did you know when you saw her that
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she was the one
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how did you know i have no clue she has
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done way more for me than i could ever
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have had done for her why do you say
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that because oh i was i was on i was
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depressed i was there was you know
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everything you know was gone outside of
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crystal and my grandbaby uh
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the house was empty you know there was
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nothing
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and if you don't have something to
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um
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divert you you know and and to love that
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needs you
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and this was the answer i mean it could
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not have came at just like it was a
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godsend and she has been a godsend ever
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since you know she makes me like i said
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i have major arthritis and she makes me
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get up in the mornings and makes me take
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her for a walk and makes me
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uh do for her oh yeah she's allowed
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wherever she wants to
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i mean she's got the run of the house so
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how was that transition period for her
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and for you
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when she first got here
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it was awkward only because she's so
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afraid of everything yeah you know she
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would run and hide
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uh
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for everything yeah the slightest little
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noise yep everything upset her so it
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took a little bit before she would get
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comfortable and then i was unsure how
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she would do around small children sure
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we have two large dogs neighbors i was
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afraid of how they were going to
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interact
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but believe it or not when she goes
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outside now she looks for them really
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yup i do think that dogs come to us when
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they're supposed to oh i did too yeah
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yeah yeah they fill a void so glad you
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found her oh gosh oh my gosh i'm so glad
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you found it i thank you so very much
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well i'll tell you when i dropped her
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back off with
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melissa um
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i knew that you were gonna i was hopeful
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you were gonna come here but i didn't
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know for sure yet yeah so i dropped her
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back with melissa and i was good right
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melissa i was holding on and then as
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soon as they walked away with her i was
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like
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and she just walked right away she
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didn't care at all but i was so relieved
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that you were able to go get her well
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when we picked her up she did not want
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to let she didn't want to go with us
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she was just very scared which
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she still is but not as scared as she
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was oh sweet girl
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oh my gosh
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like i could cry you know i could cry um
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because i you know the thing that makes
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it most special for me is to see the
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relationship
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and what she's brought to donna like
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that's the part where i'm like oh thank
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goodness to know what donna's been
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through and how much she needed gigi and
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then how much gigi needed her
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i'm like i could cry all day over it
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it's so great i'm so happy to see her
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storybook ending oh my gosh total
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storybook ending absolutely 100
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and look i mean she's
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she's just chilling she's just hanging
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out she's not hiding you know and that's
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what she did at my house a lot she
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wanted to be in her crate she wanted to
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hide she would sneak up the stairs and
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now she's just like yeah this is my
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house you can come hang out with me it
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was a little hard i mean i'll be honest
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because anytime you get a new dog into
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your house there's that adjustment
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period right so you're trying to figure
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out the dog the dog's trying to figure
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you out it's this like
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what do they like what do they not like
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how do we know when they have to go out
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so it was a little hard in the beginning
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in the sense that we had to get used to
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each other um but all of these little
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milestones that she accomplished be
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going from so timid so afraid i mean we
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have that picture of me holding her
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in the at animal care and control and
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she just looked so timid you know the
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little picture of her in the kennel when
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she first arrived with you all
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curled up and scared and to watch her
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come out of her shell a little bit every
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once in a while
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you'd see her accomplish like a great
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thing it was just um really fun to watch
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and really special to see
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um
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so as difficult or as challenging i
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don't want to see difficult but as
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challenging as it was that first couple
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of days it was really lovely to watch
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her emerge from her shell and and meet
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all of these milestones and get her
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ready for what would be her next home
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looking at her picture on on your
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website i might not have chosen her she
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just she didn't stand out to me she
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looked scared i might not have chosen
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her she came to my house and i feel like
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i was able to
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find some things out about her that i
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wouldn't have known just walking in and
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and seeing her curled up in the in the
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area where she was so for me
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the joy that i felt being able to tell
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donna well i don't know how she is about
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kit around kiddos but i do know she's
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house trained i do know what kind of
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food she likes to eat i do know what
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kind of treats she likes i do know that
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she really likes to be in her crate and
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she feels comfortable there i was able
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to learn things about her that i could
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then pass on to donna and then donna
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knew had a better sense of what she was
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getting herself into so to be able to be
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that bridge
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to
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um and she could have been a foster fail
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trust me i could i could have kept her
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and you know whatever but i knew she
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wasn't my dog i knew she was donna's dog
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somehow and so emailing with donna and
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she would ask me questions and being
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able to be that bridge to get her the
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information she needed because we don't
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know gigi's background you didn't know
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gigi's background really and so that was
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the special part so i would encourage
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people if even if you think you cannot
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take the dog and it can't be your dog i
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would encourage them to be that bridge
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be the bridge that helps you at animal
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care and control helps the future
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adopter know more about the dog so that
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they can get into the right home
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so how would you feel if i told you
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that your partner is the life saving
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you saved your life
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don't say that because it's gonna make
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you cry
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because i i did i felt um guilty
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bringing her back to the shelter
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and you and julia kept saying to me no
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you did the hard work you did the hard
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work you helped to do that and it was
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hard for me to get that in my head
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because i felt like i was bringing her
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back um and not knowing what her future
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was going to be and i kind of felt like
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i was giving up a little bit
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but knowing that and then now seeing
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this i feel really good