Golden girly - Long coat - 5 years old - Spayed
PIXIE: Adopted 02-Apr-2025
Pixie is a mature lady dog, who has had more than one situation fall apart on her. We know she was somehow in the care of the Toronto SPCA, who failed to alter her before rehoming her. From her cushy Toronto life she ended up in a WAY northern reserve (think a better than 6 hour drive north of Fort), where she went from beloved pet to pack dog - A Fort Frances human who works up there saw her roaming in the free running pack dogs and noted she was both heavily pregnant, and being starved out by the other dogs, and so they secured Miss Pix and brought her into town for the big birthing event.
Couple of short days later Pixie goes into labor and delivers Born on her own, but then stops the delivery process on the rest of the pups, as her uterus was terribly distended and unable to contract. We got her in for an emergency C-Section and she and her puppies are here to tell the tale.
Pixie is a wonderful dog, and fully housepet ready. We do not feel it is fair to Pixie to return her to the rez from which she was pulled, as she has always been an outsider to that pack, and as such she was the dog the other dogs picked on. Also as she would have no one to care for her, or to share her care with, we're hoping we can work as a community to change that for her.
Pixie is fabulous in the house and is amazing with the "no messes." She has no interest in chewing on the furniture, or yanking the things by the cords. She is not overly vocal but will be happy to let you know when there's anyone around the house, or she needs to go out.
We do however recognize that Pixie quite definitely has territorial, boundary, and sharing issues, due to her many years of fighting for survival. She's a great dog, and will fit well into an all adult home, without other pets. She tries her best not to go after her competition, but at the moment she really should be kept away from that which she may view as "competition to her position as top underling" or a threat to her much beloved human. She is protective of and territorial.
Pixie is also prone to trying to hide her food dish due to her time as a pack dog, but that is easily resolvable with a raised dish set up. Other than that and the fact she could use some leash work (of course), she's awesome.
Pixie has been spayed and will have all of her shots done.
She is already microchipped and that will be able to be updated when her file and information is transferred to her new humans.
Pixie loves attention - like - LOVES attention, and we're sure if you'd be inclined to teach her the tricks, that she'd be stoked to learn them and show off for you. She comes to you fully grown, pre housebroken, already appreciative for a soft warm bed, non-destructive, not particularly "mouthy" - Beautiful bit of gold to add to your home.
If you think Pixie might be your dog we'd be happy to arrange a sniff test and see if she agrees.
Send us a note and arrange for your sniff test. If Pixie thinks you smell like home we'll get to working on sorting paperwork, and home trial and hooking that up.
Likes, shares, comments are all most appreciated and help these wonderful fur kids be seen by your friends, and as we rely on word of mouth around these parts, we much appreciate your assistance sharing the word, the dogs, and - the love.
Looking forward to meeting the wonderful people Pixie decides are her humans. 
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So for those of you not versed in the story of Momma Pix and who missed out on the tale of woe that has been her life - grab your coffee and sit a minute and check out this dog's tale so far as we've been able to put together and know.
Pixie was born in Southern Ontario and was no doubt a loved pup, and got herself a home fairly quickly. Everything seemed great and she was thrilled with life until something (we have no idea what) happened and suddenly Miss Pix found herself at the GTA SPCA where they claimed they'd chipped and spayed her.
Lady came in from a far far FAR northern reserve looking for a dog - She was clear on where she lived and that any dog they took would NOT be seeing a vet, they *NEEDED* an altered dog so as not to make the wild dog situation any worse on their rez. SPCA assured them the dog was chipped and clipped, there would be no puppies, take her home.
They adopted the dog in good faith assuming SPCA was being legit, and NOT misrepresenting the dog - I mean if you can't trust the SPCA who CAN you trust right?
Take the dog out of the shelter arrange for the huge journey, air transports - get her up to the rez ... Bring the dog in - brag how well you did and how responsible you are that you went and got a dog who will NOT be breeding and adding dogs to the head count.
All good.
UNTIL the dog magically and mysteriously starts popping out - PUPPIES?? HOW???
Well as it turns out SPCA did NOT alter Miss Pixie and so now she was way up in the north, on a remote rez - no vets in sight and LOTS of puppies to manage.
The then owners opened up a door - and kicked her out.
Pixie with no experience of living wild then had to confront the pack dogs on the rez and she was a full outsider to their clan. They were not accepting of her, not tolerant of her, and Pixie became the pack dogs beating post. They bullied her, they beat her up, they refused her access to food and water, and they were not kind to her.
The workers who come out there to do health, social work, addictions counselling and the like saw Miss Pix and how the pack dogs treated her and took pity upon her. Miss Pix still believed humans were her best bet so she took to camping in and around the area these workers were at. They would make sure she got some food. They would make sure she had water. They did their best to protect her from the attentions of the pack dogs but - they also had jobs to do, and could only do so much for/with her.
Pixie loved and trusted people - but she also resented people for putting her in that position - she was in a state of internal combat.
That went on for "some time" - They knew she was being bred, but they could never find the pups, there were never pups following her around - she just seemed to go from pregnancy to pregnancy - without reward for the effort.
Late fall it was noticed, Pixie once again seemed to be pregnant, and - depressed. The pack dogs were hounding her relentlessly, her soul was breaking, her spirit was failing her and she was giving up. One of the worker ladies who goes out to the rez was noticing and seeing this and decided to put some effort into finding out WHO actually owned Pixie. She did manage to track that human down and asked them if they would be adverse to Pixie being removed from the rez and being brought in to the rescue. They were less than concerned and not interested in the discussion "You want the dog - take her, we don't care" was the basic gist of the conversation so when the worker came back to Fort she approached me and asked if she could bring the dog in.
Lucy was here and her pups were older, doing well, sure - bring her in.
So worker went back up for her "shift" and when she was coming home loaded the dog up in the car and brought her here.
Pixie came in heavily pregnant - FULL of fleas and bugs - MISERABLE - angry - fed up and less than trusting of her situation and predicament ... LUCY tried to tell her it's ok and you'll love it here and Pixie was NOT interested in Lucy's opinion, at all - thank you.
We gave Pixie her own space, and time and were letting her come around on her own when - she went into labor. after a lengthy spell of contractions however she only delivered one pup and - the labor fully stopped.
Got on the phone to the vet - Arranged to bring Pixie in for an emergency c-section and spay and - hoped the pups would make it ... The lady who rescued the dog from the rez came with me and - off we all went to see what we'd come out with.
Doctor Maria was amazing - NorWest was fabulous to her and they straight away got to work on saving lives.
We left the building a short period later with a basket full of pups, and one Pixie who was less than thrilled about being anesthetized let alone for the purpose of puppies who she remained convinced would all be dead in 2 weeks or less.
We brought everyone home, and returned Born to her momma - but Pixie wanted NO PART of those puppies thank you - Thankfully Lucy LOVED being a mom and she was happy to step up and fill in for momma Pix - and Pixie would just lay there stewing and brewing - watching Lucy with those puppies - quietly grumbling and growling.
She WANTED to love them, she WANTED to want them but the trauma was too much for her and she didn't trust or believe they'd make it.
Lucy and Pixie had a very on again off again relationship due to Pixie's mistrust and while lucy tried valiantly to show Pixie it would be ok and her pups were doing great, Pixie didn't see Lucy's help as "HELP" she instead decided to see it as "proof of her shortcomings and failings as a mother" and at that point decided to start lashing out at Lucy.
We removed Lucy from the area as the pups were by then a few weeks old, and decided to let Pixie try - this would be her last hurrah so - let her try.
THAT lasted a couple of days and - Pix reverted right back to beating up her pups and stressing out - so - Again we removed Pixie, and brought Lucy back in for them.
SOMEWHERE through all this dog merry go round - the lady who rescued Pixie from the rez thought she would keep the dog - and so suggested we try removing pixie from the pups and sending her to live there. It SEEMED like the reasonable option to take - so she once again loaded up the dog and this time took her home. THAT - did NOT go well. This was where we found out Pixie is NOT a fan of cats, and completely freaked out the lovely lady who had never seen that side of Pixie and had no clue she had it in her.
Having severely traumatized the cats, the kids, and the adults she was brought back here and it was decided there would have to be a cat free home found for her, and I'd sort it.
Meanwhile Pixie and Lucy and all their puppies are trying to live together, pups are nursing willy nilly - Everything was manageable.
They did that back and forth a few times and the pups really didn't care WHO their mom was but they definitely preferred Lucy's style of parenting to Pixies ... So fine - we leave them with Lucy.
A few short days after we got to that point - Momma Red and the 11 starving babies came in ...
I put Red +11 into the big middle room and had Lucy and Pixie in adjoining rooms where they could see and hear what was going on but weren't in the middle of it. By this point Pixie wasn't growling, grumbling or threatening so much anymore, but Red definitely was.
So I'd make up the formula, sit with the puppies and hand fed each of these small mummified carcasses HOPING they would live and I could save them. Red did NOT trust me with the babies but - whether she liked it or not this was the only real option.
on the 3rd or 4th day of doing that - At the exact same moment BOTh Pixie and Lucy started clamoring at their respective gates so - I opened them up and let the moms in.
Pixie and Lucy BOTH laid down for those 11 pups - and let them all nurse - proper milk, proper nursing.
You see puppies NEED to nurse for proper development, and both those mom who both still had milk - LET those puppies nurse off them despite the fact Pixie wouldn't nurse her OWN pups - she was willing to help Red's babies ... So we did that for a few days ...
Then we had the day the pups are nursing, the moms are chill and for no reason whatsoever Pixie freaks out on Lucy and gouges her from eyebrows to snout - BAM!
Poor Lucy had no idea what she did or WHY Pixie just did that, and Pixie was - gloating. So - I took Pixie straight next door and we set up her living space in that area where she was NOT with other dogs, to see if this was a temperment issue or a situational issue (is she mean, or is she intolerant of sharing her space?)
While this was all going on we were trying to sort out Pixies food issues as well as she seems to have food allergy, so being able to control her exposures better while not "punishing" everyone else - over she went.
She had NO interest in checking in on her pups.
She had NO interest on who is over on the other side, in the nursery room.
She was as yet still more depressed and dejected than not - until - BOOM - LIGHTSWITCH.
Just out of the blue - nothing happened nothing doing but Pixie showed up! She decided to leave her past and problems at the door and show us this wonderful sweet girl who had happy toes, and sparkly eyes and was just a sweetheart. AHHA! There she is!
So I posted that video of her with her happy toes in the snow people may have seen, it's in the scroll i'm sure ... And all good.
A week ago Pixie who never does anything interesting decided to eat a tupperware container - not the contents of no - the container. So I get called in to make sue she's not choking and we do that and then Pixie starts bullying her way past me to get over to the other side of the house - She has NEVER done this and has no interest in all the dogs over on the rescue side but - ok come on over.
She rushed STRAIGHt to the nursery room - said hello to all the pups who were still in there - and PLAYED WITH THEM for 20 min half an hour - before asking to take them all outside to pee.
THIS was nothing short of miraculous. Pixie ENJOYING puppies??? Holy!
So she played with them inside for 20 min half an hour and then took them all outside and ran around and played with them for just as long and then brought them all back inside - said goodbye to Leroy - and went home.
TWENTY minutes later the phone rang and one of the families Leroy had met and liked asked if they could come by and pick him up.
HOW she knew that I have NO IDEA but she did know it was his turn, and her last pup was off into the world, so the Gillon's came by and off he went.
We KNEW Pixie needs no other pets
We KNEW Pixie is a MAD attention fiend
We KNEW she's not big on walks and runs but she would do well with more activity
We KNEW she loves kids
And then yesterday - there came to the door a wickedly large family with LOTS of kids, no pets, and lots of stimulation and activity to be had.
Pixie who had a habit of puttin paws on people and getting up in their business - SAT PRETTY the entire time she was FULLY SURROUNDED by this wonderful family - she didn't growl, chuff, or "snore" and then she did the big "thing" - She laid down, rolled over and showed them her tummy. ONLy other person I've seen her do that for - was the lady who rescued her in the first place.
So - Miss Pix has been through some chit and we had to give her some time to come around but - we think she was worth it. We think the commitment shown to her to let her know WE all know that was wrong and you deserve better - has paid off - And now she will have a human pack of pups to raise and love, protect and guide, share and steal from ... and as much as people may have thought she would never find her perfect fit she held out for it - and got it.
So ... yeah she's been some work to sort out and YES it's been 100% FULLY worthwhile to do that with/for her.
THANK YOU to everyone who helped with her process - socialization - walking - brushing her for hours - sitting and talking to her - and helping her to relearn to trust.
Have to say if I'm that Mom with that huge mess of kids - out of the 80 dogs who have been through here - Pixie is DEFINITELY my top pick on the dog to watch and protect those kids - She's seen enough, she's smart enough, and she's brave enough to be a great buddy and a wonderful guardian.
Give it time, be patient, let it happen and always trust the dog to know 😉
Pretty wild n cool stuff
Rez pack dog problem case
Rescue resident problem case
Foster settling down
Adoption - perfection
She's come a LONG LONG way in her own mental health work.
Thanks to everyone who has participated in the process in all the many ways you have done - to make this possible for Pixie, her puppies and the family taking her home.
❤ ❤ ❤ SO fabulous ❤ ❤ ❤