Stinky no more

We have 2 house dogs. Quinn is a 6 year old miniature American eskimo.  We have had him since he was 5 months old. The story about him is that he was born during a snow storm in Michigan in March.  His mom had to potty, owners let her out.  She started giving birth.  He was born in the snow, then his mom put him in her mouth to keep him alive and managed to get back to the house. One puppy was left outside and died :( a few more were born inside the house.

In 2010 we lost our best family dog ever, Dottie.  We didn't want Quinn to be alone so we got 2 year old Zippy. He is a miniature schnauzer.   He came from what appeared to be a puppy mill.  He was kept outside in a pen with many other dogs.  We brought him home and changed his name to Shadow.  

This past week I took Shadow for surgery on his teeth. We did not realize it but he had several bad teeth.  On the positive, my kids no longer call him "stinky" and they now let him sit by them:

Prior to surgery Shadow would have been shoed to the floor and called @stinky@.  

Surgery was rough and the poor guy had a rough few days recovering, but now he is perking up and they said he likely will be better than ever. Likely those teeth were bothering him for a long time.