More: Penny came to me starved, near death from the shelter as a foster.I forced fed her with a medicine dropper for weeks. One day she stole a cheeseburger off of my plate. That’s when I knew she was going to live, and I was never letting her go. For being so cute, she is a beast of a hunter and digger, and keeps the varmints out of the yard. She always is the first to welcome new foster dogs into our home. Never forgets her roots.