by josephhanson » Sat Jan 23, 2010 9:53 am
We too have a rescue dog. When we first saw him he was the calm in the middle of a "puppy storm". We asked to see him and he crawled up into my lap and fell fast asleep. We were told that he was a golden retriever mix....a calm dog breed.
My wife held him and he got up, came right over to my lap and once again curled up and fell fast asleep.
We went home and thought about him(for about an hour) we both said at the same time...let's go get him.
We got him, brought him home and he was the quiet joy we desired. The next day we noticed a cough that kept reoccuring, so there was a trip to the vet......Kennel cough.....two weeks later our Dalmation developed the same cough. Apparently kennel cough shots don't work if the dogs are licking each others noses.
As it turned out both dogs got over the kennel cough.
Luke, the adopted wonder dog turned out to be mostly Irish Setter. Once he got over his kennel cough, he never again had any behavior that would be described as "calm". He runs fast, catches squirrels, digs, jumps on everything, but he's our puppy. He's seven years old and we are anxiously anticipating him growing out of his "puppy" stage.....we can hope can't we?
Joe