New foster dog - pics

[GalloFino]

Well, we're still working on getting some decent pictures of this little girl, not helped by the fact that the screen on the digital camera that I do know how to use is broken, so I'm pointing and clicking with the one that I don't have a clue about! Here's Chula this morning:

She got the last of her stitches out from her spay yesterday. I've never seen anything like what we went through to get this dog to heal up after her operation. She wasn't infected but had an allergic reaction to the stitches or latex gloves used during surgery or who knows. At any rate, her skin was quite swollen / hivey and she was leaking a ton of lymph fluid from the incision. Neither reabsorbable stitches nor cats gut would hold. She finally ended up with nylon inside and out. With that change, and lots and lots of benadryl, she finally healed up but we were quite worried for a while.

The rescue group that I'm fostering her for is hosting an adoption and information fair in February and Chula and I have been invited to put on a training exhibition. She and I are working on the basics at the moment (heel, sit, down, stay, come), but I want to have her do some tricks to really please the crowd. I'm going to teach her to carry a little bag with treats inside, and also to jump through a hoop, directed. Shake hands. Any other ideas?

 

[b.hromada]

She is a beautiful girl.

Thank you for looking out for her too. Fostering is such a rewarding experience also.

 

[ChickenFanaticAB]

Glad she finally healed up! She's a cutie! Good luck with the training. My dog knows "Bang" to play dead (with hands in shape of gun, of course) and that is always a crowd pleaser. Also if you can get her to sit up and "Beg" for a treat, that's always cute!

 

[drdoolittle]

She's gorgeous! We've had 2 foster dogs----the first one stayed for good, the 2nd only stayed for about a week, as he HATED men and there is one hubby, and 3 teen boys who seem like men to a dog! I would love to foster again---maybe this summer.

 

[sfw2]

One of our favorite tricks/commands for Zoe, our husky mix, is "crawl". We go from a sit, to a down, then get her to follow a treat along the ground. It looks comical when a largish dog does it, and SO cute. Is that something that Chula can do, with her bum leg?

She is really is beautiful, by the way. Here's hoping she gets a perfect forever home!

 

[GalloFino]

Thanks much for the comments and suggestions!

I had forgotten about the "crawl"; many years ago one of my mom's Shelties used to do that...we'd put him on a down and then tell him "down come down come down come...." he'd stay down but crawl forward. We should have given it a proper command but never did. I'll see how she goes with it, she's really quite athletic considering the state of her bum leg, but I don't want to ask her to do too much.

I think I'll also just have her do some "puppy push-ups" cued from hand signals, as it's a bit fun/silly even though it's not really a "trick" and people are always more impressed by it than they should be.

 

[sfw2]

Good luck!

 

[GalloFino]

Here's a video we made this morning showing a bit of what Chula has learned so far. And showing that I really need to work on my sloppy handling!

 

[ChickenFanaticAB]

She looks great! Very attentive! Come train my dog?

 

[lorieMN]

nice looking girl