I stumbled across your site quite a few months back while looking for something completely unrelated, and have been a reader every since. I love, admire and respect the work you do with your animals and keep coming back to check up on your little(HA!) angels. It’s hard to find someone as knowledgeable, dedicated and down to earth as you seem to be which is why I’m coming to you with a question or two hoping that you have a few minutes to help me out…….but I really did want a well-informed opinion from someone who would know what she’s talking about! 🙂
Month: November 2007
M. Bauman, IN, USA
You know so much about how to handle animals, and you are such a good behaviorist.
A group picture below of the 3 DBB’s as their former foster mom left when she came for a visit at the end of October. There is also one pic of Mudslide and Abbi and one just of Mudslide. Mudslide continues to be the most sweetest of creatures! She is so gentle and kind and just loves being near you and cuddling with you. She would make a wonderful therapy dog. We have yet to have her right matched home come along and we remain patient. The DBB’s are very close and I have been working on to have them spend some time by themselves in separate crates and they are now content at night to sleep apart. During the day, they can often be found piled up together on one of the Kuranda Beds donated by their foster mom or playing outside for hours on end! They are now 7 months old.
Below is a picture taken by the foster mom of the DBB’s before they came to our program when she was here for a visit at the end of October. DOESN’T he look wonderful???? We are still slowly working on LT’s Hygroma and it has reduced in size. He really misses Luna who left last weekend yet that has not affected his appetite, my little ‘SeaBiscuit’. What is very exciting is that his foster mom from NC is coming up in less than 2 weeks for a visit and I cannot wait for them to be reunited! IF it were not for all that she and her husband and their 2 Danes did for LT; he would not have had the basis and foundation he had when he came her. She has already told me that she plans on sneaking him away when she leaves! LOL I hope that she is pleased by how far he has come while under our care and I am full of emotion over this reunion for this goes back to the whole chain of events that brought him into our lives and what he represents for both this family and for us. LT is an incredibly special boy and I speak from heart that he has helped me to heal in many ways over the loss of my beloved Frost ‘T’. This boy will make the most amazing of TD dogs and like all the animals that cross our souls here at BHRR; LT has touched us deeply. The one thing that we continue to work on with LT is it being ‘ok’ for him to stay on our bed when we walk into our bedroom. Even his foster mom from NC has said that he was the same on the ‘doggie’ couch at their place. This will be a lifetime labour of spoiling to show LT that it is ok to lie on soft surfaces and it is his RIGHT to be treated with respect and adoration. The only other thing that I do continue to work on LT is his mischievous ‘tag’ he likes to do when you arms are full! He likes to rush in and sneak a ‘mouthing’ on your tush or thigh and while it does not hurt and it is his way of saying ‘WELCOME HOME! COME PLAY TAG OR CHASE WITH ME’; I would feel more comfortable if we found another way for him to express himself! It is a bit uncomfortable and when you wear shorts; it is a very cold nose of surprise that gets you! LOL
A group picture below of the 3 DBB’s as their former foster mom left when she came for a visit at the end of October. There is also two pictures of Jenni. Jenni remains to be the wonderful handful and one has to always be on their toes with this one. She will beguile you in a heartbeat and you will be forever ‘lost’ and then you might find yourself being the one sleeping on the doggie beds and her in your bed! 🙂 SHE is a charmer and very assertive about what she wants and her likes/dislikes! She is absolutely fascinating to be around. We have yet to have her right matched home come along and we remain patient. The DBB’s are very close and I have been working on to have them spend some time by themselves in separate crates and they are now content at night to sleep apart. During the day, they can often be found piled up together on one of the Kuranda Beds donated by their foster mom or playing outside for hours on end! They are now 7 months old.
A group picture below of the 3 DBB’s as their former foster mom left when she came for a visit at the end of October. There is also a picture of Abbi and Mudslide below and another one just of Abbi. GOSH! This girl is such a littler dynamo of personality! We have yet to have her right matched home come along and we remain patient. The DBB’s are very close and I have been working on to have them spend some time by themselves in separate crates and they are now content at night to sleep apart. During the day, they can often be found piled up together on one of the Kuranda Beds donated by their foster mom or playing outside for hours on end! They are now 7 months old.