[QUOTE]Originally posted by kobieeli:
. As they say, you can't save 'em all--although whenever I visit shelters I sure am tempted to try!

This is how we ended up w/ our female lab, Abby. Mu hubby and I decided to take a drive to the shelter, not sure why, just one of those things you get in your head to do and have to do it KWIM?? We had talked about getting another dog but we had JUST closed on our first home and wanted to wait a bit to allow our first dog time to adjust. well we got to the pound, saw this 5 month old female sitting in a cage and her eyes were so lonely I just wanted to bawl. Her papers said she was too hard to house train and that's why the people took her there. i told my hubby that no one would adopt a dog they thought could not be house trained so we took her then and there! it only took us a week to house train her. She is now almost 3 and has not gone on the house since that first week. The previous owners must have been impatient or did not take much time w/ her. I am so glad we went out there that day and found our little angel who is such a sweet girl! I think something made us want to go to the pound that day even though we had said time and time again we would not get another dog for at least 6 more months. I think our Abby knew we were out here and she called for us to come and get her LOL
shannon