When Adri Herron, president of Sanctuary Rescue, based in Midlothian, Virginia, received an email from a breeder with a very interesting subject writing, ‘A newborn pit bull with no nose’, she was very interested in the matter.
Because the breeder did not really have any experience with such a puppy before, she handed the 20-hour-old pup over to Midlothian rescue the next day.
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Because Sanctuary Rescue is a very small, foster-based rescue, the puppy, now named Goosie, was in the perfect place.
Goosie’s air passages were actually located in the very roof of her mouth. Apart from this, she was also diagnosed with pituitary dwarfism, meaning that because of the insufficient production of growth hormone, she was always going to look like a small puppy.
“She literally went everywhere with me for the first five weeks. I just put her in a tote bag, she would always wiggle to the top and climb out and I just thought ‘She’s so feisty, I’m going to get kicked out of a restaurant because I’m smuggling puppies in,’ said Adri.
