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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 156749" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>She's got a little story behind her, too, that I think difficult child will think is neat someday. His dog is truly a "rescue" dog (almost all of our dogs have been shelter dogs thru the years). </p><p>***</p><p>She came from a very rural, poorer part of the state, where country dogs generally aren't fixed. Apparently, her owner was "taking care of his excess dogs" and shooting them when a neighbor called the shelter. The shelter took what they could catch, and she was one of them. She was 4 months old and had little contact with people at that point.</p><p>***</p><p>When the lady from the shelter told me what kind of dog she was and then this story, I thought there was no way this dog would be a fit. And she was 90 miles away from us, so it wasn't like we could just "run over and have a look". I asked this lady to put the dog thru all sorts of stuff and see how it reacted and everything sounded good, so I couldn't just say I wouldn't look at her because her history didn't sound good....ya know? So we drove 90 miles (each way), stopped at 2 other shelters on the way (difficult child liked the dogs, but wasn't interested in taking them home) and went to see Daisy (of all the names...). difficult child wanted to bring her home and try her out.</p><p>***</p><p>So here she is. And she IS learning to fetch, tho its not as natural as it was for the labs (obviously). She's really pretty smart, and loves to work for food. "Sit" took her all of 10 minutes to learn.</p><p>***</p><p>Its funny how things work out, sometimes. Guess I choose to beleive that there are some things just meant to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 156749, member: 1848"] She's got a little story behind her, too, that I think difficult child will think is neat someday. His dog is truly a "rescue" dog (almost all of our dogs have been shelter dogs thru the years). *** She came from a very rural, poorer part of the state, where country dogs generally aren't fixed. Apparently, her owner was "taking care of his excess dogs" and shooting them when a neighbor called the shelter. The shelter took what they could catch, and she was one of them. She was 4 months old and had little contact with people at that point. *** When the lady from the shelter told me what kind of dog she was and then this story, I thought there was no way this dog would be a fit. And she was 90 miles away from us, so it wasn't like we could just "run over and have a look". I asked this lady to put the dog thru all sorts of stuff and see how it reacted and everything sounded good, so I couldn't just say I wouldn't look at her because her history didn't sound good....ya know? So we drove 90 miles (each way), stopped at 2 other shelters on the way (difficult child liked the dogs, but wasn't interested in taking them home) and went to see Daisy (of all the names...). difficult child wanted to bring her home and try her out. *** So here she is. And she IS learning to fetch, tho its not as natural as it was for the labs (obviously). She's really pretty smart, and loves to work for food. "Sit" took her all of 10 minutes to learn. *** Its funny how things work out, sometimes. Guess I choose to beleive that there are some things just meant to be. [/QUOTE]
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