November 17th I brought home a gal who was scheduled to be euthanized that day. She was heartworm positive, unaltered, and completely shut down. No one tried to handle her, she was deemed feral, and so she languished in a kennel until her euthanasia date. I only dealt with Elsa a handful of times but there was not a totally lost dog there, so I took her home. In less than three months since then she has become 100% comfortable with me and enough so in social situations that I have had her spayed and Saturday night she took her last two Doxy pills, thus finishing her heartworm treatment.
This is her first time in our backyard Sunday morning, and she was wholly unimpressed after I had talked it up for three months:
So far the game plan is to get her through her medical business (we are nearly finished saved for a HW retest in July, and vaccinations I don't know if she has ever had in her life) and get her mentally healthy. The good news is that while fearful it seems she hasn't had any BAD experiences with things, just seems to not know what it is like to be a normal dog and cautiously goes about new things. The only history I have on her was she was a stray for a long time in a rural area. She has a tremendously awful bite. Cross and under, her teeth jutting out some side. The vet says it looks like her jaw was probably broken at some point, but causes her no issues.
Breed guesses are welcome. She looks Pit something. She's 40 lbs. She also has changed drastically (even physically) since leaving the shelter. She USED to have a v-cape and long fringe on her leg, all of that is since gone away:
I just like to talk about her mostly.
This is her first time in our backyard Sunday morning, and she was wholly unimpressed after I had talked it up for three months:
So far the game plan is to get her through her medical business (we are nearly finished saved for a HW retest in July, and vaccinations I don't know if she has ever had in her life) and get her mentally healthy. The good news is that while fearful it seems she hasn't had any BAD experiences with things, just seems to not know what it is like to be a normal dog and cautiously goes about new things. The only history I have on her was she was a stray for a long time in a rural area. She has a tremendously awful bite. Cross and under, her teeth jutting out some side. The vet says it looks like her jaw was probably broken at some point, but causes her no issues.
Breed guesses are welcome. She looks Pit something. She's 40 lbs. She also has changed drastically (even physically) since leaving the shelter. She USED to have a v-cape and long fringe on her leg, all of that is since gone away:
I just like to talk about her mostly.
