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Sadie is behaving better
I don't know where my dog, Sadie, spent her first year or so of life, because we adopted her at Wayside Waifs. I'm sure somebody treated her well, because she loves people. I have an idea she might have escaped from a house or yard and run away, because she is very hyper, and one of her worst faults has been that if she gets loose, she runs away and will not come back when I call her.
There has been some improvement in that behaviour.
Cliff and I take a daily walk in the pasture; Sadie more or less stayed in our vicinity unless Buddy, the neighbor dog, showed up: then he'd lead her away, and all I could do was pray she'd show up again, because call as I might, she wouldn't come. So I began keeping her on a leash when we walked.
Lately I've given her the chance to redeem herself, and she has actually started coming when I call, both in the yard and in the pasture. There are exceptions, for instance if a new dog shows up. She can't resist meeting new dogs. On Labor Day we headed out to the pasture and, too late, I saw a couple of beagles in the distance. Sadie saw them too, and ran after them. The chase was on, and all three dogs disappeared in the woods, with Sadie turning a deaf ear to my calls. Since I had never seen these dogs before, I had no idea where they might lead my pet... but I had visions of her running across the highway and dying in the same manner as my last dog, Mandy.
So you can imagine my joy when, about five minutes later, Sadie rejoined us. Hey, it's an improvement, because in the past she would not have given up that chase until she was well acquainted with the new dogs.
Yesterday Buddy came bounding across the pasture; Sadie started into the woods in hot pursuit, but when I called, she abandoned him and rejoined me.
She is also trying very hard not to jump on people; she still gets excited when she sees certain folks (I don't know what it is about my son-in-law, Kevin, and my grandson, Brett, but they send her into a frenzy), but you can tell she is doing her level best to keep all four feet on the ground.
So, she's improving in many ways.
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She is such a sweetie. Maybe she needs a new toy for her Mom to throw.
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I think it takes a while for a dog to truely become "yours". Or put another way for the dog to accept ownership of a human.
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Good for Sadie. I know that worried you when she ran off and wouldn't come back. Patches didn't want to mind when we first got her. Now she is doing a lot better. Of course she is in our fenced in back yard. She comes running because she knows she will get a small treat. LOL. Helen
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My beagle goes crazy when my two youngest boys come home for a visit. They are the 2 that spent the most time with him when they were still at home. Now after all these years he remembers and expects them to take him for a walk and play. I bet there were young boys in her previous life. They do remember. Hope you're having a good day...its dark and rainy here. 'On Ya' - ma
9/13/06 3:55 PM
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Jackie
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