luckylego
Experienced Member
So it's been a while since my last post, but I thought I'd pop in to introduce the newest member of our family, miss Streets!
After our last adoption attempt (the rope burned puppy I posted about earlier) we decided to hold off on searching until the perfect dog came to us.. Enter Streets..
Those of you outside of Canada probably haven't heard of her.. Below is the link to her news story:
Basically, Streets was found in Ontario.. People walking by heard screaming and went to check it out. They found a man lying in the street punching and choking a young dog while biting at and eating parts of her face, neck and throat. She managed to get away and her and her puppies (who were discovered later in the mans home) were sent off to Hugabull in Vancouver - as pit bulls are illegal in Ontario. While in foster care they started bringing her into the daycare where I work, and I immediately fell in love. Understandably, she's still quite shaken from her ordeal and is pretty distant and aloof with people. I spent the first few days with a pocket full of treats attempting to win her over - and it worked! After a couple days I got a tail wag out of her, and now she spends her days bringing me balls to throw for her
Knowing their policy on female-female placements, I finally sucked up the guts to ask if I could even be considered as a potential home for her. To my surprise my boss jumped on the phone, made a couple calls and informed me that because they think it would be such a great fit and they know lego, they're going to bend the rules and let her come home with me! 24 hours later and I'm bringing her home after work already
Anyways, that's my exciting news.. I'm sure I'll be posting again shortly with all sorts of pictures and new tricks we've started working on once she settles. Until then.. here's a picture from today
After our last adoption attempt (the rope burned puppy I posted about earlier) we decided to hold off on searching until the perfect dog came to us.. Enter Streets..
Those of you outside of Canada probably haven't heard of her.. Below is the link to her news story:
Basically, Streets was found in Ontario.. People walking by heard screaming and went to check it out. They found a man lying in the street punching and choking a young dog while biting at and eating parts of her face, neck and throat. She managed to get away and her and her puppies (who were discovered later in the mans home) were sent off to Hugabull in Vancouver - as pit bulls are illegal in Ontario. While in foster care they started bringing her into the daycare where I work, and I immediately fell in love. Understandably, she's still quite shaken from her ordeal and is pretty distant and aloof with people. I spent the first few days with a pocket full of treats attempting to win her over - and it worked! After a couple days I got a tail wag out of her, and now she spends her days bringing me balls to throw for her
Knowing their policy on female-female placements, I finally sucked up the guts to ask if I could even be considered as a potential home for her. To my surprise my boss jumped on the phone, made a couple calls and informed me that because they think it would be such a great fit and they know lego, they're going to bend the rules and let her come home with me! 24 hours later and I'm bringing her home after work already
Anyways, that's my exciting news.. I'm sure I'll be posting again shortly with all sorts of pictures and new tricks we've started working on once she settles. Until then.. here's a picture from today
She meets Lego in about an hour when my boyfriend gets home with her so we'll see how that goes. She's still fairly distant.. The better way to describe it is broken. It's hard to explain, but its very obvious that a part of her is still traumatized.. She's responsive and she wags her tail and everything, but very cautious and aloof. Her personality is very much that of someone who's just been completely and totally broken, and her face has a permanent worried look on it. Buut with some time and love she'll start to behave like a normal, happy go lucky dog again, I'm sure of it 
That's horrific..
