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| Name: |
Mitch
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Age: |
Five years old
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| Gender: |
Male |
Breed: |
Beagle mix
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| Home: |
Edina, Minnesota, USA |
Mitch
is our awesome rescue - he's not from these parts! Mitch was born in a
shelter in Shelbyville, Kentucky. We were told he never saw the outside of a
kennel until he was one to two years old, since he was involved in a divorce case
which forced him and his family to be contained to a kennel for fear they
could be lost or injured if allowed outside of a kennel while in custody of
the county.
Mitch was on Petfinder, and had a 'heart' indicating special needs. When i
talked to his foster mom to ask what his special needs were, thinking medical
or something -- I was told 'he's weird'! He had been adopted and returned
twice. Mitch wouldn't walk through doorways or do stairs. He wouldn't leave
the 'safe spot' on our couch for days, and wouldn't eat for a few days.
As it turns out, Mitch is hilarious ... and loving ... and oh so very
soulful. He gets along with his new sister, Tess, pretty well, let's just say
she tolerates him, but he has a rowdy side that he will unleash upon
occasion! We could not be more in love with this boy and look forward to
spoiling him for years to come :)
Mitch now does stairs at the speed of light, and goes through doorways with
no problems at all! He has a thirteen-year-old Border Terrier sister. He has to
check in with her whenever he comes in from outside if she has been in the
house - she rules his roost! He loves to go for walks, but apparently that
isn't enough since when he's back in the fenced yard he races in circles like
a gazelle to burn off that extra energy!
Mitch has to be around his people whenever possible, and loves to have his
head rubbed - he'll burrow it under chair cushions or into your legs, just
begging you to help with his little burrowed brow. He knows his basic
commands of sit and occasionally down. He races to you when called. We
haven't worked him too hard learning new tricks, he had enough other catching
up to do given his history. When we brought him home, we thought he might
like the security of a crate for sleeping, so we attempted to train him to
crate when he was home alone or at night. What actually happened was Mitch
trained us that he wasn't a crate kind of a guy. He demands nothing, gives
everything, and is the biggest, furry bundle of love imaginable. We had two
other rescues come to our house to see how Tess would get along, and they
were not a match. Mitch is a match :) for all of us!
See more images of Mitch!
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