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6/11/2006 New Adoptee, a dog named, "Theodore."Well, I couldn't stand being without a dog. I've always had one from the time I was a little girl. So I went to Eglin AFB's Shelter & adopted one.
I went there to get a little Chihuahua named, Suki, which I saw a picture of at the shelter online. She's 2 years old, looks purebred, and is very sweet. But she chased at the birds that landed inside her kennel & growled at other dogs as they walked by her with their prospective owners. So I didn't think she was the right temperament for a woman with a house full of birds.
There was a little black dog lying in a kennel with a pomeranian in it. It was ignoring all the activity around it & looked forlorn. So I went & got a leash & took it out to interact with it. Turns out it was a "he" dog and very friendly, although somewhat studdy. What I mean by 'studdy' is that he had to go around & pee on everything in the area before he could settle down to play with me. But he had a nice temperament & seemed to want nothing more out of life than to be loved. So I took him home. The people at the kennel named him Wyatt, but I decided to name him "Theodore," since he didn't seem to know his name as Wyatt, anyway.
The first thing he did when I brought him home was go around & pee on certain items in the house! Yuk! I took him outside on the lead; he relieved himself. Then I came inside & cleaned up everything while he lay in Sally's old kennel. Since then he hasn't peed on anything, & last night when he was ready for bed he went over to the kennel door & pawed on it. So I let him in. He's been sleeping most of the day today, but goes to the kennel when I let a bird out in the living room to interact with it. He shows a normal curiosity about the birds, but doesn't appear to want to hurt them. We'll take that slow, though. |
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