I wish I could of taken all 3 but I unfortunately don't have enough room for 3 medium sized dogs. After looking the 3 over I felt Belle was the least likely to get adopted. The other female was extremely playful and would make a good dog for someone and the mother of them was very patient; just sat next to ya and waited to be given attention. I hope the animal control guy was true to his word and took the 2 as strays. Where I live if the owner gives up thier animals to animal control they are put to sleep immediately, if they are taken as strays they are put up for adoption. This is what the owner of the 3 told me, hence why I took at least 1 of them, and the animal control guy assured me he was going to log them as strays.

I've already established that there will be no disciplining of Belle except for biting. I originally had a fear that she might bite out of fear but she's already proven me wrong on that one. For being as scared as she is about, well, everything she has shown no signs of aggression and just takes whatever it is. Be it me picking her up and carrying her or having a the vet get a anal sample or giving her, her first ever bath(yuck).

She's actually proving to be a very good dog as it is. She has yet to go to the bathroom in the house except for the first weekend when I was afraid to let her go into the back yard cause I thought I'd never be able to get her back inside. Now she just whines and I just open the door and move away, she'll do her business and come back. I suppose being outside her whole life that's just where she wants to go.

I've been debating whether I should force her to spend time with me. She stays in the main room I stay in which is basicly the dining/entertainment area. The room is seperated by a island mini-bar with the dining table and chairs on one side, which she has claimed as her area and the futon spread out as a bed/tv/computer/etc on the other. I'm usually by the computer or on the futon. One day I did pick her up and put her on the futon with me. I've yet to do it again since I was concerned that, that wouldn't be the best approach. So I've just left her to her spot, I can see her from the computer, she can see me and I just go over to her every so often and giving her attention.

As of now I've had her for alittle more than 2 weeks. She's taking to my g/f pretty well. She actually will, eventually, go to her when she calls her. For me, if I call her she usually does laps around the table and the general expession is "I want to come but I'm scared". It is alittle disheartening to walk up to her and have her go immediately submissive but I understand and know it will take time.

If you didn't catch it her name is Belle