Well Jason is one step closer to us getting a dog. It's something that we've talked about since we got together. We've had strays in the past who weren't for us, and were crazy and too old... or too hyper... since I started working at CT I've wanted to have the chance to at least foster one of our dogs. Never really put too much thought into it. But, the more we talk the closer we're getting.
Jason wants one, he's admitted that he wants one and with me working at CT we have the opportunity of fostering the dog for awhile before we decide if we want to adopt it or not. Good thing, is that as long as we're fostering we don't have to pay anything. I get food from work and everything that we need until we adopt. Plus, the dog will already have been fixed, and have shots. That's one good thing. If we want, we can also micro chip.
Right now we have a german shep. at work. She's new for us. She's about 7-8 months. Her canines are in I guess. She's so cute. I'm pretty sure she's a mix, but mostly gsd. Her name is Shaw. Not too sure if we would keep the name or not... Haven't really used her name with her yet because she just got a name the other day. So she doesn't know it yet. But during the training we would be using it and I don't want to confuse her later if we change it.
I'm glad about one thing, she's mostly potty trained I think. She sleeps in a crate at night and I'm pretty sure it's dry in the morning. We want a puppy but not a young puppy. I do not look forward to cleaning the crate all the time, plus taking it out as often as a young puppy needs to be taken out. She's at a good training stage right now. Her attention isn't all over the place. She can direct it more closely to the person who is with her at that moment in time. Plus, I want to do remote training. Remote training on a puppy isn't very good though. I would still wait until Shaw is a little older until I started her on it. It would mostly be used for hiking purposes and out at the farm.
I am so excited. He asked me when we could start. We have to wait for new dogs to go through an isolation period I guess you could call it. Some of the dogs that we bring in have kennel cough which is so common from the pound. We actually have a pregnant dog fight now who tested positive for heart worm and it's so sad. After her puppies are born, if she makes it through labor because the heart worm is so bad, she'll be humanly euthanized. She's old. It's so bad that they have serious doubts that she will even make it through labor. She looks so sad...
But anyways... brighter note, hopefully next week we have a dog. Even if we don't adopt her we'll still be working with her to make her more adoptable for the right people. Heck, we just brought back 9 puppies from the prison... there is always another one... we just want to make sure that we have the one who is right for us...
