Tia
Well-Known Member
Well what a rollercoaster week this has been.
A week ago today my old Poppy dog was peacefully put to sleep at home. An hour or so beforehand a vet friend of mine called me to ask me to rehome a dog which was in a very bad way. She is a black GSD, 4 years old; anyway I said yes I would. Well this didn't work out as the owner of the dog would not give up ownership of the dog so the SPCA was going to have to be involved and I thought that this was either going to be a no-go, or a long haul, so we decided to go out and look at some puppies. We went to look at a litter of GSD's but there was nothing which made me want to take any of them home so we left and returned home. However in the afternoon we went to see another litter of pups; this time they were Akbash dogs. We had researched this breed 2 years ago when we ended up getting Daisy instead because we thought the dogs were too big to have around my old Poppy. Well this time with not having Poppy any more, and having previously done all the research we thought we would go and speak with the breeder to find out if this was the right dog for us. Well we decided that yes this felt right.
One of the little girl's chose us immediately and the decision was made to take one. She is the most delightful little creature. She portrays characteristics that Poppy had as a puppy but I had long forgotten them, and to see these coming out in this little puppy is heartwarming.
Clover is 8 weeks old. She is an Akbash and although she is tiny now she doesn't appear to know that she is tiny! She will be a very big girl when she grows up, they are similar to Pyrennean Mountain Dogs.
Anyway enough chattering; please meet Clover.
A bit of an ironic twist comes into the tale though......
Vet friend called me on Sunday to say that they felt that the owner of the black GSD was on the verge of being heavily pushed into signing the dog over to them......so I will hear this week whether she will be coming to live with us or not.
A week ago today my old Poppy dog was peacefully put to sleep at home. An hour or so beforehand a vet friend of mine called me to ask me to rehome a dog which was in a very bad way. She is a black GSD, 4 years old; anyway I said yes I would. Well this didn't work out as the owner of the dog would not give up ownership of the dog so the SPCA was going to have to be involved and I thought that this was either going to be a no-go, or a long haul, so we decided to go out and look at some puppies. We went to look at a litter of GSD's but there was nothing which made me want to take any of them home so we left and returned home. However in the afternoon we went to see another litter of pups; this time they were Akbash dogs. We had researched this breed 2 years ago when we ended up getting Daisy instead because we thought the dogs were too big to have around my old Poppy. Well this time with not having Poppy any more, and having previously done all the research we thought we would go and speak with the breeder to find out if this was the right dog for us. Well we decided that yes this felt right.
One of the little girl's chose us immediately and the decision was made to take one. She is the most delightful little creature. She portrays characteristics that Poppy had as a puppy but I had long forgotten them, and to see these coming out in this little puppy is heartwarming.
Clover is 8 weeks old. She is an Akbash and although she is tiny now she doesn't appear to know that she is tiny! She will be a very big girl when she grows up, they are similar to Pyrennean Mountain Dogs.
Anyway enough chattering; please meet Clover.
A bit of an ironic twist comes into the tale though......
Vet friend called me on Sunday to say that they felt that the owner of the black GSD was on the verge of being heavily pushed into signing the dog over to them......so I will hear this week whether she will be coming to live with us or not.
