My wife and I just adopted her from the animal shelter yesterday. She is about 1 year old, weighs 35 pounds (though I think she may be a touch underweight), and she reeks. We can’t give her a bath until the 25th because she was just spayed a few days ago and the glue can’t get wet. So we’ve been wiping her. Hasn’t helped the smell. She’s also gonna be a mondo shedder.

But she’s so so so sweet. She just walks up to you and plants her face in your lap and looks at you longingly. She is all about you.

When we took her out of her crate at the shelter, she was shaking scared. The shelter can be a terrifying place. It’s so loud, and all the barking had her on edge. But her sweet nature came out within a few minutes. It’s good knowing she will never go back to that place. I keep telling her that. Not that she understands English.

She doesn’t know her name. She doesn’t know any commands. She gets the idea of “come” and she seems to be housebroken. I say seems to be. We’re taking her out a lot to get an idea of her schedule. We’re going to put her through training as soon as it’s offered for beginners again. Meanwhile, we’re also going to try teaching some basic commands at home. We’ve been through lots of training with our two year old certified (ribbon, AKC certificate, and all) good boy Sherlock, and most of the classes are really about teaching you how to train your dog. Still, the classroom setting is really nice to have, and I love supporting local business.

Sherlock is really bored most days while we work. He needs a friend to keep him busy. So if we can do that and save a shelter dog at the same time, that just kills two birds with one stone. It really took her no time at all to warm up to him or our super social orange cat or us.

And Sherlock has the kind of star power that he really gets along with every dog. He was so shy and scared at first and everyone who knew him 10 months ago comments on how far he’s come. He really did a great job of setting the tone for the meeting. I’m so proud of my boy.

She seems so happy to just have a quiet place.

I can’t wait to bathe this smelly girl lol