Hi Tammy,
This is long overdue... we adopted Edison, now named
Cooper, from you
in July and I wanted to let you know how he's been
doing. I also
wanted to pass along some photos which is what has
taken me so long.
I'm not all that skilled at formatting the pictures
in e-mails. I've
also discovered that it's hard to take good pictures
of black dogs
(all our other dogs were lighter colors!) unless you
have just the
right light.
Cooper has been doing great and we love having him
as part of the
family. He's come out of his shell so much and
actually seemed to
settle in at our house fast. He's still somewhat
submissive when
meeting new dogs and sometimes with people who are
big, loud and
wild (like my 16 year old sons friends!).
but for the most part he
got over the submissive peeing almost immediately,
and only reverts
back to that occasionally. He's met lots of
dog friends and enjoys
playing whenever he gets the chance. He's been
great in our yard
hanging around with us whenever we're outside and
stays right with us
when we walk through our woods. He's actually a bit
timid about
venturing too far from us when we're hiking which
is actually a good
thing. He went on his first vacation in August
to Vermont where he
had lots of dogs to play with in the house where we
stayed and had a
chance to swim in a pond, which wasn't his favorite
thing....he's a
bit of a weenie about the water. We've found
that too at the beach
when we take him there but he loves running down the
beach chasing
sticks and balls so it's still fun for him.
He's become especially
good buddies with one of our cats and they actually
chase each other
in the yard (yes the cat chases him too!). He's
done fine with our
chickens and only occasionally gives into his urge
to chase them, but
only does it in fun and doesn't try to hurt them.
My daughter and I
have been taking him to a basic manners class at a
local training/
doggie daycare place one evening a week for the past
month and he's
doing very well... he was actually doing well even
before going but
this is reinforcing it all and he gets to make even
more friends.
He's quite a chewer so he has lots of chew toys to
try to distract
him from things he shouldn't be chewing... I think
that's going to
take a while!
So, you can see he's been a busy guy since coming to
live with us and
we're just having a great time with him. We
really appreciate all
you did for him in getting him into the animal hospital,
getting him
healthier and then allowing us to adopt him.
He's such a sweetie and
we're really glad to have him!
Thanks again for all your hard work,
Robin
