So, what can I tell you about her based on what her foster family has seen? Well, she's a wonderful girl who her foster family describes as "no trouble." They call her "shadow" because she follows them around where ever they go. She is especially fond of her foster dad and likes to sit so that she's touching him. She is fine with her foster family's several cats. The cats brush right past Star and she does nothing. She doesn't appear to shed and it even looks to me that her hair on her face and ears has grown quite a bit since the last time I saw her. She has been doing her business outside except for one accident. Her foster family hasn't figured out if she gives a "signal" when she needs to go out but they let her out when their other dogs need to go and she dutifully does her business. They do consider her housebroken. Star is doing just fine with their three other dogs. They tell me that it appears that she didn't know rawhides and refused the first few that they gave her. But now she joins the other dogs in the nightly after dinner rawhide treat that they all receive.
She sleeps in her crate at night and will go in there on her own when it gets to be bed time. Her foster family crates her when they leave the house for errands (they are retired) and she does bark some while she's in the crate but eventually settles in quietly.
She is polite in the house already but is learning some more manners. Her foster dad is working with her to learn "sit."
She is a little shy at first and would prefer to approach you rather than being approached quickly. Once she gets to know you though she falls hard as evidenced by her devotion to her foster family.
Her tail is wagging now and I can see a "smile" on her face. Maybe she knows that she's through the hardest part of the heartworm treatment and now it's just a matter of continuing to keep things low key for the next couple weeks.
Thanks for reading and thanks for thinking rescue!
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| Such a beautiful girl! |
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| See the tail is wagging! So happy! |
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| Passing one of the cats (Tuffy) |
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| An action shot as she's walking |
