River Girl: Our Little Savage

 

Date Line - about month ago:

As Jen has returned to full-time work (yah, the wild job-hunt finally paid off) Rio the Red was left
alone at home for many hours of the day. So, it was decided that a canine companion
should be found for our most worthy dingo dog.
A search followed, where a number of dogs were met but found lacking.

Jen had been taking a course at Marin Humane, CITA (Consultant/Instructor Training Academy), and
one of the shelter-dogs her class evaluated was a sweet Australian Shepherd/Border Collie cross
(or whatever they were making that day). She was gentle and had very good dog to dog skills.
The short of it is - a week or so latter, after meeting our family members, it was decided that she was the one
to be Rio's friend and our new dog.

She is around four years old (rather than the one or two the shelter thought she was) and
has most likely spent most of her life in a backyard somewhere. So many things are baffling,
or down right frightening, to her and she has no training at all. She has so much lot to learn about being
a civilized housemate and we have much to learn about finding new ways to help her do just that.
She is a very different dog than Rio was when he first came to live with us but very dear to us already.