Elyana Smith

the network, TV network Animal Planet, reached out to my shelter looking for puppies for the 2017 Puppy Bowl.

And when you're 12 years old and your entire personality is fostering dogs, this is the Olympics.

And I needed to submit my three best contenders with headshots and personality bios.

So they are three weeks old.

They are the size of a soda can.

And you might think that personality bios would be difficult, but I'd been watching them.

I know who was cut out for it.

There was one that was really into toys, so I was like, that could be good, and another one, so I was exploring.

Then there was a third one, Juniper.

She was the first girl who was born.

And she always got into so much trouble.

She taught all the other puppies, all nine other puppies, to crawl out of their crated area and to escape into the house.

She was very interesting.

And so we submitted these, and I waited to hear back so anxiously.

And they continued to grow very fast.

And I continued to expose them to everything I was supposed to expose them to and made sure they had every milestone.

And then I heard back.

Juniper was in.

She was going to go to the puppy bowl.

We were going to the puppy bowl.