Zack Gets Adopted

Zack

I mentioned in my last blog that things constantly change at the shelter and today was no exception.  Today, after our adoption dogs were taken care of I thought I'd walk a couple of the dogs we board for other shelters.  So I go to find Zack, a Tree Walker Coonhound I've befriended, and he's missing.  I ask Melissa if she knew where Zack was being kept (the dogs don't always have the same pen) and she said he'd been gone for a couple of days, but she wasn't sure where.  I hook up Ringo the German Shepherd and on my way out I ask my boss Augusta where Zack was.  She told me Zack went back to his rescue group because they found a home for him.  It's such a satisfying moment when we hear that one of our friends has found a real home, even if we don't get to say goodbye to them.  Good luck Zack!

Compared to last week, the weather today was wonderful, high of about 85.  On my way to work I noticed that the corn in the fields was about 4' tall now.  A month ago it was about 8" tall.  Soon on our walks the view of distant farms and trees will be blocked by giant corn stalks.  For someone who spent a 30 yr career working in a windowless room, being surrounded by cornstalks is something I look forward to.  Not to mention I have an overactive imagination and who knows what's hiding in those rows of corn that seem to go on forever.

During my walk with Ringo we passed by Veronica and Selena, two of our other volunteers, who were taking Spike, one of our latest adoption dogs, out for his first walk.  This is the first time Ringo and I have had contact with another dog while out on a walk so I wasn't sure how he would behave.  He noticed Spike from a distance and I could see him start to focus and pull ahead a little.  I stopped him and told him to sit while turning him slightly away from the oncoming Spike.  Ringo did sit but only having to be told about three times, so I sense some reluctance on his part to submit totally to this handler.  Which probably has a lot to say about my training abilities, but I'm working on it.  Also, for my fellow volunteers at our shelter there seems to be a dislike between Ringo and Kodi.  Not unlike some humans, some dogs
seem to judge a book by it's cover, and just decide they don't like another dog.

I better close for now before I blog everyone to sleep.  Goodnight!