Dog Rescue Stories
Roscoe
submitted by Janet Dieter
The story of how we found the most amazing dog, Roscoe
My husband and I decided we were going to get another dog because I wanted to start running again. We have an 11 year old Golden (too old for that much running) and a 9 year old Cairn (legs too short to run that far!). We headed out to the shelter near my hometown.
It’s a small shelter that doesn’t get much traffic. More than half of the dogs were black. In my mind I wanted a medium to smaller female – both our other dogs are males. We started the process of taking the dogs out to the yard one at a time, eliminating each of them for various reasons. We got down to just 2 dogs, and one of them seemed to have a dog aggression, so we decided to take the hyper/crazy one. He (yes, a male) would jump straight up in the air and look us in the eyes. He was between 1 and 2 years old and solid black. He was abandoned on the country road near the shelter.
We brought him home and within half an hour of giving him a bath he was sleeping on the floor with our other two dogs!! It was like he had been a member of our family forever! This hyper, crazy dog at the shelter turned out to be an amazingly well behaved dog in the house!!
I’ve taken him through basic obedience and we are now training to compete in Rally. We’ve also done some Dock Diving. He’s incredibly smart, and is excelling at anything I ask him to do. We had him DNA tested, and it seems that he’s a full blooded Lab. He has goofy ears, but otherwise fits the breed description. I do home daycare and he is so gentle with the little ones. I couldn’t have found a better dog if I had made him myself!!
Who would have thought that the crazy, jumping, wiggling, insane dog at the shelter would actually be a gentle, loving and intelligent dog in a home!! I can’t wait to see how far we can go with him!
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