I was
"recruited" as a volunteer for GSRAW just this fall and the last
thing we planned on doing was to adopt another dog, after getting our
first dog --Logan -- just this summer from GSRAW. We wanted to wait until
next year, in the summer, after we are done building a nice, big fence,
after Logan had some obedience training and we wouldn't have to worry
about him too much anymore........so far the plan.
Trying to help out
fostering a dog and finding out if I would like doing this for a while, we
took Cosmo as our first foster dog. He was quite a spark plug and we
almost named him Pistol. He had no respect whatsoever for our other dog
and we had to teach him some basic manners (don't steal Logan's
rawhide…eat your own, don't hump, don't jump on him, etc. pp.....you get
the idea?). I think Logan wasn't sure if he was allowed to defend himself
against the little guy, so we were teaching both dogs the dos and don'ts
at the same time.
After 1 week, Cosmo
had calmed down considerably and after the second week we found ourselves
saying "well, if we will meet a dog like this again in a year, that
might be the dog for us…..but now is just not the right time for
us". We kept looking for homes for this little guy. After having him
for 3 weeks, we finally broke down and decided to keep him....
The next day Cosmo
thanked us for our decision in his own special way……by tearing up part
of our carpet (…….oh well, he is still a puppy, right?) and a week
later he decided it’s fun to drag one of my plants around through the
whole living room…distributing the soil evenly on our carpet....(when
and where do they have carpet on sale again …….?)