Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Meet Our New Family Member!

This is Angel, so named because her foster family's daughter said she must have had a guardian angel!
She is around 6-7 months old, and a Lab mix, probably with a smaller breed as she is only around 25-30lbs. Angel is from California, she was thrown/fell out of a vehicle and was hit by the car behind. It was the driver of the car that hit her who took her to a vet, so she was probably thrown as her owners didn't stop. Her back leg was broken so she was on her way to an euthanizing center when someone took pity on her, and somehow she was sent to Castlerock, where a really great foster family took her in. Angel went to a new family, but they were going through a divorce and had a difficult schedule, so she didn't get enough care and developed pneumonia, so she went back to her foster family. We heard about her through Nikki W. who sent us her picture and sad story. Three weeks later here she is, cast off, and all better, thanks to her awesome foster family!!

This was yesterday evening, her first hours at our house. Caleb gave her the cellulose sponge, it was dry and she quite liked to chew on it.
The boys have to sit on the stairs to calm down when they misbehave, and so far today Angie (as she has been nicknamed) has joined them every time. A very sympathetic pup :)

Caleb, playing the excellent host was so good as to point out her food for her, however he took it a bit far when in the confusion he managed to taste it for her as well!! She was not very interested, and remained indifferent this morning, unlike Caleb who went for seconds.
Score; Caleb 2, Angie 0
Since then we discovered what she likes and she polished off a bowel, thankfully, without Caleb's help!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good to see pictures of your new pet.

Anonymous said...

cool so when i come down there now i get ta play with a puppy too weee....