Show us your pets!

[tulip]

Oh, that's not my place! That's my friend's place. It's a very nice place! My place is coming along. The cabinets are to be finished this week and installed next week. More on that later, when it actually happens.

[redrhodie]

I thought those were different floors!

[Tuckervill]

Shiloh's coat is just like my Lucy's, but she's Golden Retriever colored. And her face looks like a Wolfhound.

Karen

[TsPoet]

I think Shiloh is a border collie papillon mix !
which would have been a very difficult feat for one of the two parents

[sgtiger]

This past Saturday, we met a very sweet girl at the local shelter. Her name is Leela and she's a lab mix. We feel very fortunate to have her join our family. Luckily she's very smart and has been training me! Even BIAK, who is more of a cat person, is smitten with her.

[mtbdarby]

Awww SG she's beautiful! Congrats on the new addition - may you have many long years together.

[kermit]

Heres my girl, five years ago. I had to go to Texas for 10 weeks of training with her. She sniffs for explosives at MIA. She's the best.

[sgtiger]

Awww SG she's beautiful! Congrats on the new addition - may you have many long years together.

Thank-you Mtbdarby. BTW every time I see your avatar, it reminds me of DD. She rides her bike in the same position.

[Zen]

This past Saturday, we met a very sweet girl at the local shelter. Her name is Leela and she's a lab mix.

Her ears say she's not sure about things and may take a while to really open up to you. How's she doing so far?
Do you know anything about her past?

[sgtiger]

Her ears say she's not sure about things and may take a while to really open up to you. How's she doing so far?
Do you know anything about her past?

Not much other than she's been moved around a lot before we adopted her. The Oregon Humane Society didn't have a lot of information to give me. They received her from another shelter and was told she was with a foster family for awhile. There's evidence that she's had puppies pretty recently; that may be why she was being fostered.

She's pretty needy right now and wants constant reassurance. Yesterday was the first day that she felt confident enough to go eat on her own. Before that she'd take only two or three nibbles of her food while constantly looking up to make sure we weren't going anywhere. She follows basic commands very well and is fine being handled. She does so-so on leash but that may be due to the excitement of a new environment after shelter life. She's picking things up pretty quickly though and enjoys the walks so much that she shakes her tail so hard that the rest of her rump follows. She doesn't bark at all - just quiet vocalizations low in her throat, but not a growl, when she's very excited - which makes me wonder if at some point someone used a shock collar on her. She puts her paw in my lap and looks at me expectantly. I haven't figured out yet what she wants when she does that but it means something to her because she looks disappointed that I'm not responding. Any ideas?

She tries so hard to get our approval. I think maybe she's afraid we'll send her back or something. I hope that as she learns our ways and we hers that she will have more confidence.