Updates

Time for a few updates. The dog that needed parts due to a major foot surgery, is doing great. When I saw him on Saturday he was laying in the grass in the backyard of his new owner's home. He was sprawled out, half on a blanket - half off - just snoozing the afternoon away. He's still wearing the big Elizabethan collar so he looks like the drunk at a party who wears the lampshade but he is so very happy. His new owners even tried to call him in to visit but he just opened one eye as if to say "Nope - busy right now" and ignored them. And why wouldn't he? For the past months he's been in a damp kennel, only allowed to see the sun and grass for an hour or so at a time and always at the end of a leash. Now he can lounge about in the sunshine, sniff the fresh air, watch a bug crawl up a blade of grass, listen to all the neighborhood sounds and do all the things that make a dog's life great. That's the ending we hope for for all of our dogs. Peaches the pit bull was also laying in sun today when I visited the shelter but unfortunately she hasn't been adopted yet. She was just out with one of our wonderful Tuesday volunteers. We had two families interested in her but they failed the home check. With dogs like Peaches we have to be so very careful. Even though she is sweet there is a risk with her. It is also an annoying fact that the people most likely to be interested in a dog like her are too often the types we really can't feel confident about adopting her to. That's the same with most of our aggressive breed or aggressive looking dogs. Peaches still has a hard time looking at people but she is getting much better. And we even had a pretty good week for cats. Some of our long time cats that had been at the shelter for 6 to 8 months finally found homes. We like that because it frees up room for more of the never ending stream of homeless felines to make their way into our adoption room.