We found Nica, then five months old, on a website in May of 2006. A rescue group had taken her in and treated her for a broken leg; she was made available for adoption when her cast had been removed and she was allowed limited activity. We packed Sassy in the car on a Sunday morning and the three of us went off to meet her perspective sister. When the little "schnoodle" rolled on her back on a stretch of grass and wrapped her paws around my arm, she "won" me.