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"tiny dancer" wrote:

But my
goodness that poor dog must have felt just horrible before.

The first couple of weeks, she basically parked herself on a rug and
didn't move all day. Now, she runs, chases her ball, trots up and down
the stairs instead of a slow waddle. All in all, a different dog.

She had belonged to an elderly couple that never left their
property/home. Not even for the vet - he came to the house. I don't
think poor Nikki ever walked more than 5' at a time before. And they
pretty much gave her a strange assortment of food all of the time, and
fed her something awful and very colorful, which went right into the
trashcan, so I stopped at the natural pet food store on my way from
intake to her foster home and got her the Canidae.

She was living with a nice young Boxer (owner's son's dog) but
supposedly was very dominant over him. I just can't picture it. She's
very docile and actually had not a lot of interest in eating dog food at
first.

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Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com