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Looking for someone to love me !!!!!!

Hello I'm Pearl, a 6 year old American Staffordshire Terrier

I got my new name when I left that horrible cell at the pound to start my new life. My name comes from the circumstances I came from. I was left like any other piece of sand (dirt) and now that I'm free of my shell (cell) I have become a magnificent pearl!

I was just a fun family dog living on a farm when one day my master brought me for a car ride to a scary place. He said that my family was moving to town and never came back. When my owner walked me in I was on a harness leash. When they worked with me at the shelter, they used a gentle leader. I love to go for walks and use my muscles since I've been locked up.

I had lived on a farm my whole life and was very good with the other animals. The family I lived with had two kids. One was 2 and the other 5 months. I treated them like my own being very gentle.

I lived indoors and outdoors. But I most definitely prefer the indoor life. I don't jump on furniture, I'm potty trained, I know the commands sit, come, leave it, and down. But trust the rumors are false: you can teach an old dog tricks.

My rep from MARS came to get me because I had become extremely depressed at the shelter. That place will really bring you down.
I stopped eating! In a month I lost over 10 pounds. I could hear the staff at the shelter talking about how my time was almost up! I hoped that someone would rescue me so that I wouldn't have to live my last days in this terrible place. Then, they came for me only two days before I was going to be put to sleep.

I have never been happier to feel the wind on my muzzle as we pulled away in the car. I laid out in the sun for hours feeling its heat and the grass on my belly I forgot all about that cold concrete floor I had slept on for way to long.

I know that there are those cute puppies that are hard to pass up but I've still got spunk in me and I don't need all the work that the puppy would need.

Note from my rep:
Please consider this gift of adopting an older dog after all the love and joy she gave her family they left her to die! The last touch of a human being would have been death. Now it can be a wonderful kiss on the nose. Exactly what she needs, deserves and wants.

Please feel free to fill out an Adoption Application on our main website, www.midwestanimalrescue.org, by clicking on the Form/Applications link under Website Features.

Thank You!