After we visited "Dizzy" the dog at the animal shelter today, Anna is able to adopt her!
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Which means... I'm adopting!
Let me explain.
Anna lives in an apartment complex with breed restrictions: it does not allow pit bulls, and Dizzy is a 5-yr-old pit bull mix.
However, next month, Anna and Jeremy are moving to a new apartment complex that allows all types of dogs.
Though their current apartment complex does not actively enforce the breed ban, the animal shelter will not let Anna adopt the dog because of it. However, given the large number of pit bulls that currently roam the large apartment complex unfettered, Anna and Jeremy are confident that they will have no problem hosting Dizzy until they move. I agree with them.
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| Dizzy |
So, here's where I come in: I will adopt the dog on their behalf, and they will take her home with them to their apartment. If it is required, I will foster Dizzy, though I very much doubt Anna's large apartment complex will even notice the dog before they move.
This is a low-risk decision: Dizzy is as sweet as can be, with delightful kisses and real affection, and Anna and Jeremy have proven their mettle as responsible and eager dog owners. All the shelter volunteers are in love with Dizzy, and she scored straight A's on her behavior tests. Anna has had her eye on Dizzy for over two months, and has been visiting the dog regularly. Since Dizzy has been at the shelter since February, it's high time for her to move out!
But there was one catch: Tootsie and Daisy had to prove that they could get along with the new dog, or else the shelter wouldn't let us adopt her!!!
So that's what I did this morning. On the drive over, I gave Tootsie a stern lecture, to the effect of: "We love Anna and want this to work out for her. So you can be the big boss, but be nice about it." --This isn't an exaggeration: Tootsie adores Anna, and indeed showed far greater interest in seeing her than in having much to do with Dizzy.
With animal shelter personnel supervision, we introduced the dogs one-at-a-time (Tootsie first, of course) and observed them each for over half an hour. Tootsie did show Dizzy that she was boss, but in a very mature and acceptable way.
(Daisy, of course, didn't really care one way or the other, as long as the shelter volunteer kept giving her little bits of bacon!)
So with the shelter's blessing (and unspoken understanding that Dizzy would be living with Anna and Jeremy at the apartment complex, unless she really had to come stay with me until they moved), we were given the go-ahead!!! We go back tomorrow morning to get rescue Dizzy!
This is a happy story. I love the dog already, and think she'll be very happy with them. I'm glad I could be a part of making it happen.
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| Dizzy |
