While Jeremy was in Egypt, I received an email about the Hall county Animal Shelter needing temporary foster homes for some dogs that they are taking to an adoption expo out of state at the end of April. I, being the complete sucker that I am, thought "wow! we could totally do that!" So I mentioned it to Jeremy during one of our conversations and he said he thought it would be okay. (I later found out that we had this conversation when it was 12am in Egypt and he had just woken up long enough to call me and say goodnight before he went back to sleep... hehe, oops :)
So, last week I went up to the shelter (conveniently located RIGHT next door to where I work)and agreed to foster one of the dogs.. I even got to pick out which one I wanted.. and let me tell you, she is ADORABLE. She is about 5 months old, black and brown brindle with a white chest, possible boxer mix?, big brown eyes, big floppy ears, and the tiniest little under bite.. so cute!
We picked her up this afternoon and brought her home and I was, truthfully, really nervous about how she'd do with Caroline (who is 11 months old and walking EVERYWHERE!)but I was especially nervous about introducing her to my two dogs, Abby and Ella. Abby is a 70lb white boxer and Ella is a 55lb brindle pit/chow mix. I was afraid they would be aggressive towards her and hurt her, and then I'd have to call the shelter and tell them my dogs killed their sweet little puppy. But in the end, i was worried over nothing. She is GREAT with Caroline. No jumping, no biting, only DESPERATE attempts to get the child to play with her. Caroline was walking around playing with various things and poor little puppy was trying SO hard to get her attention, doing that little play bow where they stick their butts in the air, tail wagging, front paws and head on the floor, just BEGGING to be played with. She even went so far as to let our a couple of "yap yaps" at Caroline, who was not impressed and just patted the puppy on the head and kept walking. Poor little puppy just sat there, hoping she'd come back! One thing to mention would be that, in true puppy form, she picks EVERYTHING up off the floor and tries to chew on it... gotta start working on teaching her which toys are for her and which toys are for the baby!
So then it was time to introduce our dogs to the puppy, so we took everyone to the back yard to be in more neutral territory. Puppy was, needless to say, excited about making some new friends. And my dogs? Abby spent most of the time knocking the puppy over, showing her who is boss, and Ella only growled at the puppy when she was trying to lick Ella's...eh hem, "undercarriage". And Puppy kept coming back for more, following my dogs around, chasing after them, jumping on them and trying to be their new BFF. AND, while she was out side she pooped and peed (to big praises from us) and has not had an accident in the house...yet.
All in all, a successful introduction and first day.
And, a few pics of the new girl, who needs a name other than "puppy".. any suggestions???
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