DAPHNE - PPAWS ALUM, SOCIAL BUTTERFLY, MAMA DOG, SALESWOMAN
Daphne’s taken over for Molly when it comes to greeting k-9 customers and head of quality control. She’s always up to play and growls and grunts to let you know she’d like to give chase. Human children are welcome to pet her, but fair warning about those dog kisses.
June 1st, 2021, Molly and Theresa adopted Daphne from Purple Power Animal Welfare Society. She was their 3rd foster, and after just a week Molly and her will inseparable. Both dog is better for having her sister. She was dumped in Wichita, hit by a car, then taken into a shelter that euth listed her after her puppies were born. Always and Forever Rescue in Topeka took her in to fix her broken leg. They traded her to Purple PAWS once she was healthy enough for adoption.
THERESA - ART HISTORIAN, ARTIST, BAKER, COOKIE ARTIST
Theresa’s not much for photographs of herself. All of our goods are handmade by her. During the day she works as a Museum Registrar at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. Theresa’s from Stillwater, Oklahoma, but took the long way round to Manhattan. She received her undergraduate in drawing and painting with an emphasis in art history, theory, and criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She studied for 5 months at the Bauhaus Universität in Weimar, Germany. Her master’s degree in art history and archaeology is from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. While there, she spent 5 weeks working as a draftsman’s assistant on an archaeology dig in Selinunte, Sicily. Through her travels, she worked at the Illinois State Museum – Chicago Gallery, the Gilcrease Museum, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum. Theresa’s Sweets & Treats is the marriage of a need for extra money and the skills she’s acquired throughout her life. Molly was her inspiration to seek a “side hustle” as Molly requires daily allergy medication and regular allergy shots. She’s found she loves her role with Theresa’s Sweets & Treats. There’s job is primarily to make dogs and children happy, and she couldn’t think of anything better!
MOLLY - RESCUE DOG, BLANKIE THIEF, MAMA DOG, SALESWOMAN
Molly walked the rainbow bridge early February 29, 202, just shy of her 8th adoptiversary March 17. She was helped across by the wonderful staff at Animal Doctor Westside due to complications from cancer.
March 17, 2016 I went to a PetSmart in Midwest City Oklahoma to meet a dog I was considering adopting. I walked in wanting a “healthy” dog, but then I met Molly, and my life was forever changed for the better.
Wags to Whiskers rescue took her from a kill shelter just shy of being euthanasia listed. Molly was heavily pregnant, had maggots in her ears, cigarette burns on her body, and a tumor from trauma in her belly. The rescue adopted out her puppies and gave her the medical care she needed.
Molly was best known as “Molly from the farmers market.” As Salesdog for Theresa’s Sweets & Treats, she touched and warmed the hearts of many. The Downtown Farmers Market of Manhattan was her favorite place in the whole world. Even when she couldn’t walk, she’d make her way to the door on Saturday mornings and in her youth she danced to the car.
She was also known as the “wagon dog of Northview.” In October 2021, two of her intervertebral disks exploded. After surgery her grandfather and grandmother took care of her in Oklahoma. When she returned, she was determined to walk, but could never quite keep up with her sister. I pulled her in a wagon until fall 2023 when she got a stroller. She loved every minute of her rides. One neighbor driving by once hollered at us that “that’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!”
Her favorite hobby was first chasing squirrels then barking at the neighbors from her favorite bush. When we got a home of our own, I let Molly enjoy every minute of her freedom in the yard.
She put up with 27 foster dogs. Molly chose our 3rd for her forever sister. That sister, Daphne, survives her.
Molly was loved beyond words and will be greatly missed.