After deciding to adopt a dog from a shelter, a devoted cat mom decided to go against the grain and bring the adorable Chihuahua/Pug mix into her cat-filled home.
This experience led her to reveal her newfound love for her dog, which she, like many, never thought was missing from her life. Little did she know that would happen. Cricket, an adorable and quirky Chihuahua-Pug mix, quickly became a beloved member of the family.
Meet cricket
Before coming to her furever family, Cricket didn’t exactly have a great start to her life. Along with another small puppy, she was dumped outside the local shelter.
“Cricket had been left with another puppy. They were both just left in a cardboard box outside the shelter steps in early February. When the shelter staff came in a day or two later ‘cause they had been closed for the weekend, they found her and the other puppy,” Tanya, Cricket’s mom, told GeoBeats Animals.
Cricket was then adopted, but unfortunately, the people who adopted him had allergies, so Cricket was also returned to the shelter.
That’s when Tanya and her family decided to adopt Cricket. Since being adopted, the little cricket has undergone several surgeries to reconstruct his leg due to a certain genetic defect.
She required four surgeries to recover, but fortunately she is doing well.
“She’s got a big old plate in there and some pins in there, and the other leg still had wires in there. But she’s done really well,” said Tanya.
Cricket brings joy to everyone she meets, and everyone loves her. Between the family’s friends and coworkers, she is a true celebrity.
“You would never know she’s ever had anything negative happen to her in her life. Even when we would take her for rechecks after her surgeries and stuff, she would just love everybody there,” Tanya said.
Cricket might be small, but she has always had a huge will to live and a really positive impact on everybody she meets.
The Life Of A Chug
The Chihuahua Pug mix is an adorable mix of the two breeds listed above and is often referred to as a Chug.
Although it is a small dog, it has a large and cheerful personality similar to a cricket. She is the perfect combination of both breeds, very expressive and extremely affectionate.
Crickets have a habit of sticking out their lower lip when they really want something, and the more they want it, the more their lower lip sticks out.
“She loves to cuddle and if I’m home, she’s suction cupped to me all day. If I am not home she is either stuck to my mother, my son, or my husband,” Cricket’s mom said.
They are all Cricket’s emotional support humans!
The funny thing is that Tanya had always been a cat mom, and she never even dreamed of owning a dog until Cricket came to their life.
The cats luckily accepted little Cricket and took her under their wing, but since living only around cats her whole life, she has started to act like a cat.
So, she grooms like a cat after her meals, and she just does a lot of weird cat stuff. “She’s just never been around dogs, so she doesn’t really know how to be a dog. Even my son refers to her as a cat,” said Tanya.
Cricket completely changed Tanya’s life and she became a dog mother, something she never thought she could be.
Damn it! Don’t tell the cats, but Tanya is so great that she might love Cricket more than cats. Check out Cricket’s story on GeoBeats Animals.
