A ‘Potato’ helps us celebrate a special birthday

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This article is a personal story about a family who adopted a rescue dog named Ellie and her puppies. The story was published on SMA News Today, a website about spinal muscular atrophy, but the article itself is about pet adoption and does not contain any medical or rare disease information.

Three months ago, my husband, Randy, and I adopted Ellie, a mama dog who had been at the rescue for four months. She arrived with six puppies, tending to another litter after hers were adopted. “Tending” might be a stretch. When we saw Ellie, her interim miniature charges were pestering her in puppy fashion. However, […] The post A ‘Potato’ helps us celebrate a special birthday appeared first on SMA News Today .