My parent's found their dog on http://www.potcakeplace.com/. We wanted to rescue a pup, we really don't care about what breed a dog is just as long as it would fit with our family. So we started to look. I was so disapointed that there were no potcakes available at that exact moment. We looked at the local SPCA but they didn't have any puppy's. So I did an online search for rescue agencies in the area. I found a few but unfortunately they only had adult dogs that suggested they go to a quiet home without children. Well that just would not work.
I checked back often with potcakeplace and then one day there she was! If you click on the link you can read her story and some of the emails I sent after she came to her forever home. It was pretty crazy! We did the whole adoption process over the internet and then shortly after me and Mason were driving to the Toronto Airport to pick her up. They had given her the name Samali, after the two women who found and rescued her, Sam and Ali. We loved that her name related to her rescue and the beginning of her journey to our family.
She has been a wonderful addition to our family. Very friendly, playful and quietly protective. She may bark occasionally when people come to the door but if she ever perceives real danger from someone then you'll hear a quiet low growl and her fur will stand straight up.
Unfortunately though she is still nervous. We're not sure what happened to her before she was found but she has never been the best with men. It took her a while before she would not pee herself when Jonny was in the room. As long as he was sitting she was fine, if he stood it was a deal breaker, she'd pee and run back to her bed. I'm happy to report she is not so scared she pees herself but she is still pretty jumpy and leary of men she does not know. Jonny and other men that she's been around are fine, once she's been around them often enough.
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| This is the dog zone, beds, toys, food and water |
A few years ago, after Mason and Abby had been asking if we could get a cat we decided to get one. (I'll be blogging about that time in our lives tomorrow) Samali was sooo sweet with the kittens. She would snuggle them and give her bed up to them when they would push her out. It wasn't log after that we got another little bed and put it beside hers so that she could keep her bed and the kittens could have their own. Yeah they still kicked her out of her bed and she would curl herself up into a little ball and sleep in the cat bed. They had their own little water dish but they preferred to drink from Samalis. Oh my, these cat's were taking over the house and Samali happily obliged. It was fun to watch her play with the cat's.
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| Moses is in the purple collar and Leo is in the red collar |
Seeing this and how she interacted with other dogs either on a walk or at the dog park we decided that she could use a puppy friend. At first I was a little disapointed that they didn't "play" together. I thought for sure they would have! But they just needed some time to adjust to each other. I guess seeing as Sequin was living in our house with us that Samali needed some time to adjust to that before she would play with her. Today they were playing together and it was so much fun to watch them together. I can't wait till Sequin is well trained enough that I can let her run loose with Samali and just watch them play. Samali will smoke her with running though. Samali is bigger than Sequin and she is soooo fast. We wonder if she has some whippet in her or something. She kinda has the body of one and people often ask if she does. But man can she run! It's a good thing that she listens when her name is called because there is no way I could ever catch her!
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| Being black she is sometimes hard to find in pics. |
Check back tomorrow and I'll take you through the pain and joy we went through finding our cats.
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