Picture contributed by Heather, of Kiwi right after she got professionally groomed after she came to live with Heather.
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| I emailed Heather, the ESRA MidSouth Coordinator, on Monday, January 9, 2006, about fostering Kiwi, who had been her foster dog for the past four months. I decided to ask Heather about Kiwi because Heather had asked me to foster her about a week after Jake got adopted, but I told her that I needed at least two weeks of rest period to avoid burnout. So about three weeks after Jake got adopted, I emailed Heather to tell her that I�m ready to foster another dog, and I would willing to take Kiwi, who sounded from her bio that she needed to be in a home without other dogs. Kiwi�s bio says that she was relinquished from her previous home when human kids were added into the family, and because the kids didn�t treat Kiwi very well, she took her anger out on the other dog, a Basset Hound. Picture contributed by Heather, of Kiwi right after she got professionally groomed after she came to live with Heather. |
Heather emailed back to say that she has a mixed breed foster, Marty, who�s a little hyper and was �freaking Kiwi out�. Also Heather said there�s an applicant in Alabama who�s interested in adopting Kiwi, but they�ve already have a male Cocker and a cat, so Heather said it would be best if Kiwi could meet the Cocker first. Photo contributed by Heather. | |||||||
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| Photo contributed by Heather, of Kiwi, Gunther (Heather�s own dog), and Diogi (another of Heather�s foster at the time) playing in the backyard. | ||||||||
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| Photo contributed by Heather. Heather also said that Kiwi�s previous owners put her on Prozac, Tagamet, and Science Diet Sensitive Stomach, but Heather had weaned her off of all three, and now Kiwi�s just on Wellness Chicken dry kibbles, just like her other dogs. Heather added that Kiwi loves food, �knows all sorts of commands, doesn't run off, but in the yard she has a few bad habits. She likes to dig holes and chew up things she finds on the ground which sometimes makes her sick. She gets the gurgly stomach thing. I try to keep her away from those things, but Gunther is constantly bringing in pine cones for the two of them to mulch. I'm afraid I've also let her sleep on the foot of the bed, but she can easily be moved to sleeping on a dog bed. She had accidents in her sleep when I first got her which haven't happened since then, so I think it was just nerves and the weaning of the Prozac. I always ask her to sit and then down before I give her the bowl. She slams to the ground and then hovers as she's so excited. As long as you put a dog bed for her to sleep on, she should be fine. She might try to sneak up in the middle of the night, which is how she ended up sleeping on my bed. She tricked me :-) She would go to sleep on her dog bed then sneak up.� | ||||||||
| Photo contributed by Heather, of Kiwi playing with Tully and Diogi. | ||||||||
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| Photo contributed by Heather, of Kiwi and Tully. | ||||||||
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| Photo contributed by Heather, of Kiwi playing with Tully, a Springer mix, the alpha male dog in Heather�s household. | ||||||||
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| Photo contributed by Heather, of Kiwi and Tully. Heather mentioned in Kiwi�s bio that she did have to keep Kiwi separated from her pack the first week. But after some slow introduction, Kiwi loves spending time with her male dogs and is generally fine with all her dogs. | ||||||||