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I still remember the first time I saw Bitsy so clearly to this day. I was outside my home when my neighbors got home. They took a tiny pet taxi out of their truck, and all I could see was a white snout and big brown eyes. But that was the last time I ever saw her. I never saw her outside or going for a ride in the car, until I started doing housework for my neighbors for extra money.

Everyday I'd go in their house, the same pet taxi would be sitting in a corner with the same big brown eyes. One day, I asked, "Does she ever get out?" And I was met with a shocking response. "No, because she will poop on the floor." Mind you, they didn't have puppy pads or anything down, so I walked over and stuck my finger in to pet the cute white snout. I was shocked to see her standing on three or four inches of her own feces with a shredded grocery bag used as her only escape from standing in feces.

DOG. PHOTO: ADOBE STOCK / JONNYSEK

I tried my best to get her, even offering money, but the answer was always no. That was the last time I was in that house. I couldn't stand it, until, about a month later, my neighbors moved out.

Every night got down into the single digits, and I started hearing barking and whining from inside the house. I finally had enough one night and went down there. The door was opened and the house abandoned. As I pushed the door open more, I was in complete shock when I saw the same pet taxi and the same white snout and brown eyes. They had left her with no intent of coming back and had left no food or water.

As soon as I saw those brown eyes, I yanked open the taxi door and she ran out right into my arms, shaking like a leaf with matted hair, smelling terribly of urine and feces. I tried to give them another chance to save her by calling them, but they just said, "We don't want her, she's too nasty", so I took her.

She was extremely timid and so skinny I could feel her hip bones and ribs. It took about a week before she'd let me get too close, but everything changed after her first bath. She fell asleep under the water pouring down on her, she let me cut the matts out and flea her and clean her ears. She had been using a large dog kennel as her safe spot, but that night, she slept beside me in bed.

PHOTO: MIRANDA BROWN

And that's how it's been everyday for three months since. She's definitely my shadow; every step I take, she's on my heels. When I take a shower, I fold up a towel and she lays there until I'm done. She loves going outside and car rides, and she loves wearing little outfits. Her favorite thing to do, though, is lay in my lap with her head on my chest just looking into my eyes. Her behavior and her looks remind me of my long lost best friend of 15 years, Sissy, which I see as a gift from Sissy for a best friend and an angel.

Story submitted by Miranda Brown from Monticello, Kentucky.

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