So, we've got her! .... and she snores! So cute 8-)
Little Jenna is now Rosie and she joined us on Friday last week. I've been
very busy trying to help her feel more comfortable around the house.
She is very timid and is simply too good on a leash not to have suffered at
someone's hand (my guess only). She has not barked, growled or whimpered
since we got her. She is a dear and is making progress each day toward
feeling more secure in her new home. She loves her doggie den and has taken
to eating just fine - although I've been literally spoon-feeding her water.
She seems either very picky about the type of bowl she drinks from, or
someone shoved her nose into a bowl of water at some point and scared her.
I have only one bowl that she'll drink water from and she'll only do it if
no one is looking at her. I woke up in the middle of the night hearing her
lapping up some H20 from one of the cats' very shallow bowls. (I said a
silent "Hooray" when that finally worked!)
She loves to go for walks, although is tentative about coming out of her den
- once she's out, though, she is game for a stroll. She has had only two
accidents in the house, both on the first afternoon when she was really
scared. Otherwise, our floors and carpets are intact. And, you know
Lindsay is just waiting for an excuse to pull up the upstairs carpeting.
She was spayed a week ago and still has her stitches - and she is taking
very good care of herself. She doesn't lick at the stitches or anything.
The wound looks to be healing extremely well. In fact, she has twice
invited me to rub her belly with her little tail carefully wagging just a
bit. I, of course, am careful not to get too close to the site of the
incision.
She's been coming to work with me each day and has her spot in my office.
It is a corner where she can see me - fitted out with her little matt, food
bowl and the odd doggie treat. And, she has reliably done both of her
businesses (so to speak) at our daily lunch time walk.
Lindsay and Sarah have been playing a role, too and I want to encourage
especially Lindsay to work at assimilating himself into her world a bit
more. At first, he felt he might let her come to him, but I am finding that
she is responding very well to me offering up gentle interaction on my
schedule rather than hers. She is accepting this approach and learning that
no one in our house will hurt her. So, we might see if we can expedite her
acceptance of him via a similar method. At some point it isn't practical to
have her so keyed in on me.
Well, that is my little doggie update, the timing of which was driven by the
fact that she is laying beside me snoring away, having great doggie dreams
about running in a wide open field somewhere, following her nose!
Ciao,
Stina Hughes
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