Name-Penney
Location-Utica, New York, United States
Family-Humans: Jessi and Heather (of
Holistically Heather,
Aunt Flo's Pads and
It's All In The Bag)
Dog: Carmel
Age & Birthday-Penney is 4 years old, she is a rescue with a made up birthday of April 14th
Sex & Breed(s)-Female, she is some sort of whippet terrier mix
Nicknames-Penney Poon, Penelope Pitstop, Poonie, Penney Whistle, Penney Pingleton
Personality-Penney is a princess, when it rains she will test the ground with her paws, ever so delicately and then decides that she would rather hold her potty business for the amount of time it takes for the grass to dry. She's the first to know when mommy is home, and whines and cries in the window until I can get my key in the door and free her from the evil mommy-less apartment. She is very protective of me, due to our traveling days, and especially doesn't like horseplay around me unless Im laughing. She has stolen the heart of my grandmother who is sick, and can turn any frown upside down! Penney also loves to hunt, but doesnt realize that whining in a very high pitched squeal at an animal, generally scares them away.
Likes & Dislikes-Penney and Carmel are total opposites when it comes to their toys. Penney loves squeaky things that she thinks she is killing, things that she can carry around lifeless, or squeak and squeak and squeak for us. We recently discovered a great park nearby, where the dogs can wade in the stream, and theres a pond that Penney loves to jump in to and pull garbage out for us. Its really pretty cool, I tell her to get the critter and point into the water, and she brings me all of the garbage. When that is gone she starts going for the lilly pads, sometimes she gets stuck in them and kind of freaks out, but she loves that park and pond. They also both love to play frisbee, and we used to take them out in our huge fenced in backyard and play everyday, but our landlord sprayed the entire yard (our organic garden included) with some nasty chemicals to get rid of the fleas, instead of listening to my advice. Penney really really hates kids, must have been something that happened to her before she was in our lives, but she cant stand them. Too much screaming and horsing around I suppose. She also hates bugs, so she hunts them, sometimes tortures them, then eats them!
History-I was living in Chicago, and we adopted a beagle doggie named Barnabee P. Mcgee, and he had a very short life, as someone let him loose (they say on accident, I disagree, but thats a long story) and my little baby was hit by a car. The vet said he would have lived if the person who hit him knocked on our door instead of just pulling him out of the road into the ditch. It was awful, so I hopped on the internet and tried to find a no kill shelter in the Chicagoland area, thats when we found PAWS. We headed over there, filled out the mile long paper trail, and waited to look at dogs. Penney was the first and last they brought out, about the size of a burrito with a cute little pink collar on, how could we resist! She was the runt of her litter, and noone had wanted her because she was goofy looking. We scooped her up and I start loving her from that very second on. A couple months later Penney headed off with me on a journey around the country,we bonded and she became my little moombietta!
How long vegan-Penney has been vegan almost her entire life, when she was in the no kill she ate some packaged crap, and I slowly switched her over to homemade vegan dog food. She is always getting compliments on her fur and how beautiful she is, it makes her happy since shes a ham!
How the switch to a vegan diet went-With Penney, its a little different because I switched her at a very young age, but her fur is GORGEOUS, I mean always soft and shiney. She always has a lot of energy and is really healthy.
Additional information-Vegan Dogs Rock!
Beth Wade Design makes several beautiful designs with sayings like Kindess Matters, Be Kind to Animals and Opt to Adopt, all inspired by her late canine son, Smiley. Her tagline says it all- "Art & Jewelry For People Who Think Animals Should Rule The World". 
If you want to memorialize a beloved dog on a pendant, there are a lot of gorgeous choices out there. I love this pebble with paw prints from sjEngraving. You can get your choice on engraving on the back of it.
Pangaea Designs is another shop that has a lot of stunning pieces. I especially love this swirl design.
They also make tiered necklaces where you can have names on each tier. These are great for if you want to have more than one of your companion animals engraved on a pendant.
Another great choice for having a personalized necklace is from Avaeli Couture. There are several designs to choose from, including this one where you can put whatever saying you'd like along with a smaller disc with a name on it (multiple discs are an option, too).
