Okay, so I hadn't really planned on getting another dog anytime soon, really. As the poster child of the Petfinder Addicts Support Group(LOL, not everyone will know where this comes from...), you all know that when I break down and check Petfinder, I tend to find a dog that I want desperately, and one way or another it never works out. The dog is already adopted, can't get phone or email responses from the shelter, something comes up in my life; something always happens so that the dog I'm just in love with doesn't work out. It's just not meant to be. 
A good friend of mine adopted a dog from a New Mexico shelter several months ago. I posted about him a while back, as I was helping him with training. The dog is a little genius, very enthusiastic, and slightly on the crazy side. Smart + eager + crazy=Tx is in love. I was crazy about the dog since the first day I worked with him, and jokingly told my friend that one of these days I would pupnap Cowboy. Welll.....
My friend has had some life issues come up that I won't go into, and may be rehoming Cowboy. Of course I'm the first one he told. The shelter does not ask that dogs are returned to them, but if my friend can't find a good home he will take him back there. He is trying to figure out a way to keep him, but if it doesn't work out, I will probably take him so long as he gets along with Mud and Z. He seems like the right fit for them, because he has a middle-of-the-road personality--he isn't really dominant or really submissive. In my post about him, I think I explained him as being a perfect mix between Mud and Z--he is like Zeke in that everything he does is in high-speed, but he has more self-control and is medium/high drive, like Mud. He learns VERY quickly. He's confident like Mud, but bouncy and exuberant like Zeke. I am completely smitten with him and have been since the first day I worked with him. ^^
Sooo......there is a good possibility that I will be getting Cowboy. The shelter had listed him as a Catahoula mix, but I'm not so sure. He's about 50-60 pounds, Zeke's size, he's tricolor, smooth coated, and 2 years old. I'll have to get a picture of him. He's really cute. Anyway...so we'll see what happens!
A good friend of mine adopted a dog from a New Mexico shelter several months ago. I posted about him a while back, as I was helping him with training. The dog is a little genius, very enthusiastic, and slightly on the crazy side. Smart + eager + crazy=Tx is in love. I was crazy about the dog since the first day I worked with him, and jokingly told my friend that one of these days I would pupnap Cowboy. Welll.....
My friend has had some life issues come up that I won't go into, and may be rehoming Cowboy. Of course I'm the first one he told. The shelter does not ask that dogs are returned to them, but if my friend can't find a good home he will take him back there. He is trying to figure out a way to keep him, but if it doesn't work out, I will probably take him so long as he gets along with Mud and Z. He seems like the right fit for them, because he has a middle-of-the-road personality--he isn't really dominant or really submissive. In my post about him, I think I explained him as being a perfect mix between Mud and Z--he is like Zeke in that everything he does is in high-speed, but he has more self-control and is medium/high drive, like Mud. He learns VERY quickly. He's confident like Mud, but bouncy and exuberant like Zeke. I am completely smitten with him and have been since the first day I worked with him. ^^
Sooo......there is a good possibility that I will be getting Cowboy. The shelter had listed him as a Catahoula mix, but I'm not so sure. He's about 50-60 pounds, Zeke's size, he's tricolor, smooth coated, and 2 years old. I'll have to get a picture of him. He's really cute. Anyway...so we'll see what happens!
All day at work I thought about that little guy and posted where I had saw him on facebook and with radio stations...hopefully the right person heard and got him! But I was soo ready that if he came to me, he was going to be in my car and at my house until a: I found his home, or b: if he got along with Riley and had no home, he would have a great life with new parents!!
(calling all members, plz check in immed!!!!) I do remember "little" Cowboy. Ya know, sometimes things happen when the time is right. And maybe, just maybe, the time wasn't right *for you* to have Cowboy then but it is now. I'm a firm believer in things like that. I'm sorry about your friend - but maybe Cowboy was supposed to be with your friend for a while, and now it's time for him to pack up his things, move on, and be your "Tx_Cowboy"!! 
... I told her that she has a long way to go to catch up with me! 
Dunno why Deafness is so prevalent in Texas right now 
