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| Name: |
Ursula
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Age: |
Ten months old
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| Gender: |
Female |
Breed: |
German Shepherd Dog |
| Home: |
Kenbridge, Virginia, USA |
I
am a foster mom for rescued puppies in our area. We make sure these
pups are healthy, had their first shots, dewormed, and healthy skin.
Then these pups are sent to a shelter in Massachusetts where they are
spayed or neutered and ready for adoption. With the spay neuter rules so
strict there, they do not have an over abundance of unwanted puppies
like we do down south. So it is a win-win situation. We find good homes
for these sweet innocent pups and they are able to adopt wonderful
little bundles of fur. We send forty puppies a week to Massachusetts for
adoption. Check out our Homebound Hounds on their website.
I heard of two shepherds (six months old) needing homes, so I went to look
... beautiful. One of these lovely dogs did go north for adoption ...
but Ursula found a special place in my heart. If I was ever to own a
GSD, it would be the silver and black coloring, there was my special
dog. I tentatively schedule her to go north, then I just don't follow
through. I know she is here to stay with us.
A funny thing she does has to do with shoes. No, she does not destroy
them, she just collects them. We live on a farm and have to pull boots
and old shoes on and off a lot. If we leave our shoes near the front
door, we better be ready to find them in the yard somewhere. Now that
it is getting colder (late October, 2004) we invite her to stay inside at
night. She does not go into the bedrooms but stays in the living room
area. She must be nocturnal, because when we get up in the morning it
is to find every shoe we own in the living room with her. As we entered
the living room in the morning each person in the family said "Ursula
has been busy".
She is loving and lovable. For a dog that ran free as a bird on a farm
for the first six months of her life, she has adapted to being an inside
and outside dog quite nicely.
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