When Friends Return



Paco



Well, how can I not be happy to see this dog again?  When I came in this morning Tom gave me the news that Paco was returned to us.  How can that be?  Paco was adopted almost a year ago

by an older couple who were familiar with Malinois and to my knowledge we never received any negative feed back from them that Paco had problems.  I remember the day that Paco left it was the first heartache I felt in seeing one of our friends going away from us.  After all, it was Paco and his pen mate Asti (aka Molly), who provided me with my first shelter lessons.  I remember one day the two of them ganging up against me when I went to retrieve one of them for a walk.

As I opened the pen gate Paco pushed against my leg and when I knelt to block him Asti took a leap over my shoulder.  When I reached up to try and grab Asti Paco wiggled past my leg and I just lost two dogs in two seconds.  I also learned the importance of closing doors behind you when working with mischievous dogs because both dogs ran directly into our shelter full of barking dogs.  Lucky for me our very experienced shelter worker Colleen was inside and helped me gather up our little escapees.  From that day forward if I have two dogs in a pen or I'm working with an unfamiliar dog I shut doors behind me.  Thanks for lessons learned Paco and welcome back.