I am proud that Madelena would allow me to express how connected I have witnessed her to be with dogs. Although a quick look through her Facebook account will show how all of her personal dogs through the years have an expression of contentment and happiness, I also have seen her able to capture a feral dog that even animal control had given up on. When she heard they could not risk injury to a human because of his unpredictable behavior and would need to euthanize the scared boy, Madelena with help from her father, Bob, did not hesitate to adopt "Sammy" into their home and he had a full life time of love and encouragement. Her boy "Chai" was maybe 5 weeks old when she saw him hide under a pick up truck late at night during a freezing rainstorm. Suffering from Parvo and unlikely to survive, her love and care and a compassionate vet has that beauty actually posing for cameras in his senior years! There's Susie, a tiny Chihuahua that is a fashion queen, strutting down a rainy sidewalk in a pink ensemble including hat and boots with the confidence her momma Madelena instilled in her causing a young man filed with dispair stopping me in passing and telling me with a smile that what he witnessed surely did save him as he was "in a very dark place" just before that encounter. Madelena has a love of life and you will be blessed to have your babies under her care!