*More Photos: Saturday Adoption Day: Amber with Mary Anne
Pat Arnold's Daily Dog Log
SUNDAY DECEMBER 22 2002
Krissy meets Candy on leash in the park today
Candy's going to need a new kennel mate soon (as her current kennel mate will be going to her new home Christmas morning), so we've been trying Candy with a few different potential future companions. Often two adult (or nearly adult) females will not be compatible, and although we're not sure yet, it looks like these two are not going to be kennel mates. We'll try them again tomorrow for a short period--still on leash, of course. We never take the leashes off till we're absolutely sure there won't be a fight.
As I've said before, because of being very cautious we've never had a dog fight here at Straydog, but years ago we had the unfortunate experience of having to break up three different fights between (and among) our family dogs. As we look back on those horrible events, we wonder why it took three fights to teach us to be extremely careful handling dogs.
When they meet, dogs have to be able to sniff each other's rear ends. They do this to learn a lot about each other in addition to needing to be sure that neither is giving off the scent that comes from being afraid, because if one senses that the other is afraid, the less fearful dog will attack the fearful dog in anticipation of the fearful dog beginning a fight out of self-defense. As you can tell from the photos, we never felt comfortable enough even to relax the leashes, but we'll try again tomorrow. These girls could possibly be friends.
*Pat Arnold's Daily Dog Log
*Photo Pages
LAST WEEK:
(1) Puppy Bessie's first photo page
(2) Puppy Bessie tussling with Puppy Pepsi
(3) More of Puppy Bessie with Puppy Pepsi
*MPEG Video: Bessie and Karen playing with a toy
*MPEG Video: Bessie and Pepsi play and then get a drink
*MPEG Video: Bessie and Pepsi run and tussle in their kennel
(4) Frosty's post-surgery checkup plus waiting in the van afterwards
(5) Adoption Day at Canine Commissary: Kim, Amber, Mary Anne, Angel Tree
(6) Adoption Day: More photos of Amber with Mary Anne
*Adoption Day Saturday, December 28 - LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED.
(Pictured holding up gifts are Guy, Pat, Tina, Rhonda and Michael of Straydog, all standing in the living room/kennel/office.)
*Our Dogs for Adoption - Volunteer Shannon's page
*Our Dogs for Adoption listed on Petfinder.org
*Our Mission & How We Got Started
*"Goodbye, Danny Boy." - An example of the only acceptable use of euthanasia
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