Saturday With Penny

I don't normally visit the shelter on Saturdays, unless I'm trying to duck some chores at my house, which is why I stopped by today.  That and it's a beautiful day, my own dog Miss Beans who is in the sunset of her days is crashed out on the front room floor, so why not pay a visit?

It would be nice if I arrived at the shelter to find the parking lot full of visitors, but I found just the staff finishing up their morning routine.  I'm thinking we need to find a way to make our shelter a popular place for the public to visit on the weekend...a place that makes kids ask their
parents, "Can we go see the doggies today?".  I think we have a beautiful site with a very hard working staff and friendly dogs to show, we just need to draw in more people.

Anyway, Melissa tells me we have a new adoption dog that just arrived, and she's very cute and friendly, her name is Penny.  She says it's a Shepherd/Husky mix, on the smaller side for this mix, and she has matching beauty marks on both sides of her muzzle.  I had just been feeding a dog in one of the outside yards and I thought I saw a new face out there, but I thought it was a client's dog being boarded, but it was Penny.  I hurried back to my boss Augusta, "Can I take Penny out to the play yard?"  Smiling, Augusta said it would be fine, so I stuffed my pocket with biscuits and jerky sticks, and went to retrieve Penny.

Penny was all tail wags as I went into her pen to put a leash her.  No hesitation at all, she was ready to go.  In the yard I took Penny off leash and let her go on the required sniffy inspection of the yard.  On calling her name, Penny came running back to me, ready to play.  You could tell she was well socialized, having come from a family with young kids and other dogs, and she hasn't had the chance of developing any negative complexes that can sometimes creep up when dog has been in a shelter too long.  We played and worked on the "sit" command and just got acquainted with touch and smell...and lots of kisses.  Penny will not be a big dog, but she has smaller size German Shepherd structure and wonderful straight up nicely formed ears.  Penny should be easy to adopt out and I know our other volunteers will fall in love with her.  I regret that I didn't take a camera with me so I could have included a picture of her, but look for her on future blogs.

That's it for now..peace and make the world a better place.