Successfully Adopting a Rescue Dog. Can anyone around here speak dog?

[hollysmom]

11. I have had 2 rescues, they both picked me out.

The first was at a farm where they allowed a foster home based rescue of dogs to run an adoption day. I had gone to many shelters and looked at dogs, but they either seemed shy of me or something. When I got Sadie out of her crate, she just sat and looked at me for a while. She was the runt of the litter, and had stomach problems most of her life, but thrived on homemade chicken soup, chicken and rice. The hardest problem I had was getting my dog back when I loaned her to people, she was an empath and could take sadness away with a paw on your knee. When ever a friend or family had a death, they always wanted to borrow Sadie. She had one accident when the dog walker had her in the park and was on rymadil until her death from heart failure and 14.5.

For the second dog, I was looking for a harrier, and they had one listed on a farm where they kept unadoptable dogs,. When I drove 3 hours to get there, the people told me she had been listed by mistake and she was vicious and could not be adopted out. They told me to look at the other dogs, but they were all too large for me. So we went though what I would have to do if I wanted to adopt this dog - always keep her in my fenced in yard, keep her crated when I had company, never let her near men or children as she would attack them. So I lied and said I had a fenced in yard and a crate, I met this dog and saw no vicious in her. When they got her out of her crate, she was more interested in checking me out than in running away. She was 7 years old, but not a harrier, she was a hunting dog. 7 years later and she has more friends than I do, everyone seems to love this dog and most people comment on how beautiful and friendly she is. She is 14 and healthy. This for a dog that walked out the house when the workmen were there and got hit by a car when she was 9. (note, I hate a get up, and they moved the gate to talk to me and did not put it back - eeeeee)