Karen your note is so exciting and I feel like I was there!!! You did such a good job describing your meeting today with your new little love. She is absolutely a doll baby!! She has the same look on her face that my Ripley did when I first saw him. It just seems to say '''''' PULEEZE take me home!!! ''''' Maybe it is an 'inside thing' that rescue dogs teach each other! LOL!

The info you just got from Byakko's Mom is terrific. I really can't add much to that at all. I remember when we got Bella I had the crate downstairs at night and she cried and cried. This is where I had kept the crate in the past when I had my other poodles and it was OK for them. Through my wonderful friends at Pet Talk, I learned to move the crate upstairs to my bedroom at night. No more crying! She just wanted to be near us! I also had just gone "to look" at the puppies and really was just like you are now - totally unprepared! I had to quickly run out to Walmart and get a baby gate and some other things. (Thankfully the breeder had given me some food! LOL!)

Was your little one a 'turn in' or a stray? The reason I am asking is to find out if you know any of her history. It might help you better understand her needs. I think the fact that she hasn't pottied gives me some indication that this cutie just might be housebroken or at least an attempt has been made to teach her. When I first took Ripley out of the cage at the shelter to walk him outside, he stopped right outside in the yard and lifted his leg for about 5 minutes! LOL! I pretty much knew right then that he was housebroken. He had been holding it until he was in a proper place. I also found out that at his last home his people had a doorbell. We don't have one. We just have a knocker. One night while watching TV a doorbell rang on the TV and Ripley barked and went over to the door. It's these little things that can give us insight as to these cuties' past lives.

Oh Karen I am just in love with your new doggie!!!! I am afraid that if I was there I would have been some serious competition for you! LOL! Isn't it funny the way things turn out? Here you had that other dog snatched right out from under you and now you are a mommy to such a sweetheart!!!! I couldn't be happier and will wait with anticipation to hear more about her and of course see lots more PICTURES!!!! Three cheers for Aaron for being so agreeable to this adoption! What do Marius, Scooter and Sergei have to say?!! LOL! Please do keep us posted!!! ((((hugs)))) and CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Love, Pam