New Arrivals

Some awfully cute little critters arrived this week! This house is FULL, I need some adoptions and quick! Nepsa has a home visit this week so keeping my fingers crossed that this will work out and be a good placement for her. Phoebe has regressed, she bit me in the face this week while I had her out at dog school. Seems she was having a cranky day. I have allowed her to be out of her kennel a fair amount lately and I'm pretty sure the bite incident is a direct result of my relaxing the "rules" with her. She needs structure and routine. She has also learned that going in the truck means being picked up and this is not going so well. She wants to jump in by herself but it is just too tall. (A friend of mine calls my truck the "man" truck, Dodge trucks are pretty tall!) Anyway, I got her a harness. My plan is to first fit the harness on her without getting bitten, and then to practice lifting her and giving her hotdogs and putting her down again over and over. She'll have to drag a leash again for a while so I can catch her but she really needs to get desensitized considering how small she is.

New arrival #1: Earnest Hemmingway. Earnest is about the cutest little puppy you ever did see! He was picked up off the side of the road by a good samaritan. Poor fella had the worst ear infections I have ever seen...and did he ever stink! His little ears were so swollen that they split. He also had sores all over his mouth from bacteria invading his little lip folds. Skin and bones, full of worms, and unable to walk more than two steps this little guy was a total mess. But, a week later with some good antibiotics, some quality food, a little wound care and he is coming along beautifully! He found his spunk two days ago and is now behaving like an eight week old puppy should. He has learned his name, sit, down with a hand signal, no mugging, and sleeps eight hours at night in his kennel. He is a very clean little puppy so house training is going pretty well. He likes to play tug and will retrieve a little ball right back to you! He likes to run off with the tug toys though. He is learning his manners from the big dogs and even got Toque to play with him yesterday! He seems to be afraid of some people so we will work on his socializing and get him spoiled up. This little fella is an SPCA dog so his adoption will go through them when it is time. How anyone could treat a puppy so poorly is beyond me. He had a collar on, so he belonged to someone.

New arrival #2: Sadie

I don't have any pictures of Sadie yet but they will come. Sadie is a three year old Sable sheltie that was surrendered after she bit the man in the home when he alpha rolled her. Sadie is a shy little girl who originally came from a poor upbringing. She was doing well in her previous home but cannot tolerate being handled roughly, she has been through a lot and aggressive handling leads her to believe that she needs to fight for her life (and rightly so). Sadie will only be adopted to a home with women, or potentially a woman with a very calm and gentle husband. She gets along well with other dogs and with cats, and has been around children (but will not be adopted to a home with young kids). She is not available at this point until I have had the opportunity to do a full assessment.

And a random pic of some of my dogs that my friend Sandeep took while we were out walking the other day!