The Dresden Chronicles - Chapter 1.5

It's been three days since Dresden arrived and she seems to be settling in quite well. She's also putting on some weight, no worries she still has her girlish figure.

Since the weather has been quite nice the past few days, I've been taking her out for long walks/runs. She's so friendly, she wants to meet everyone that comes by. She's met alot of dogs on the walks and she gets so excited to play with someone of her own size, (Sorry Xena those 5 whole lbs of you aren't made for rough and tumble).

Dresden also met the little boy that comes over to play. I was a little apprehensive as first, but Dresden was so good. Even with the high energy in the room, Xena going coo coo for Coco Puffs and the boy running around, Dresden totally kept her cool. We were really proud of her. Oh and I totally forgot to mention she's started to pay attention to her name, can sit and lay down and is working on "come". Our next step is to teach her to fetch, I really want to see her just let loose and run. But I'm a little hesitant to just let her off the leash still and want to find a doggie park that's enclosed so she can run around.

Well that's part of today's update. Going to start the fetch training today and see how that goes. She's a smart cookie though so I think she'll get it pretty soon.

Good News For Charlotte - She has a sponsor!

Charlotte aka Dresden has a wonderfully generous sponsor who has contributed a very nice sum which should cover just about all of her heart worm treatment.

A HUGE Thank you to Kristen, Dresden's guardian angel!

The first day

So today is Charlotte's aka Dresden's first day at the Oberoi-Williams home. We got up at 6:00 and went for a 45 min jog/run which she seemed to enjoy. Though she barely broke a pant. I have the feeling that if she had a place she could really let loose and run she'd go from 0 to 60 in 1.5 seconds.
She's great at staying right at your heels, with very minimal pulling on the leash.

After that she had quite the appetite for breakfast which she ate in her crate. She's not thrilled about staying in there, but doesn't complain about it. Lucky for her Jaan was home all day today and could keep an eye on her and Xena so she didn't have to be crated.

She's so affectionate and is quite happy. A good indication of that is when she's lying down her tail keeps wagging till she dozes off. She and Xena are playing some funny version of tag, with Xena of course not playing fair by jumping from sofa to sofa like she's a Cirque de Soleil acrobat not letting herself be caught. Plus I think she likes the height advantage.

Overall it's been great having her as a new addition and I can already see that letting her go will be tough. But as long as she goes to a great forever home it's all worth it.

Here are some photos we took of Dresden the first night she arrived. As you can see she's a beautiful girl. More photos to be updated as the days go by!

Charlotte Makes A Break From The Shelter!

Charlotte left the shelter today and went to meet her new fosters - Jaan, Pri and Ro and her new canine friend, Xena. Since Charlotte is totally charming, the humans took about 30 seconds to win over - those humans are hardly a challenge at all - just a tail wag here, a flop and belly roll there and it is all over. Xena was a little more of a challenge. Xena wasn't so sure at first how she felt about this BIG (I mean, Charlotte is 30 lbs and a leggy girl) extremely (maybe too?) friendly dog in HER house. But within an hour or so. it looked like Xena thought that the company wasn't so bad after all and that maybe it'd be fun to have another canine to play with.

Now that Charlotte is in her new foster home, we're looking forward to more stories about Charlotte's life in Northern VA, her search for a forever home and of course, seeing some great photos (those shelter photos don't do a girl justice at all!)

Meet Charming Charlotte the small hound

Charlotte is a super cute, playful little 1 year old hound mix tho she clearly has something else in her. Look at that face - have you ever seen anything cuter? She also has a wonderful personality - she is friendly, love to play, loves other dogs.

This little cutey is a a rural shelter that we try to help. She can be brought to the metro DC area for an approved foster or adopter. We don't know if she is housetrained and it is best to assume that she is not. Most dogs housetrain quickly and easily and we can give you tips on housetraining, crate training, etc.

Won't you help this darling little dog by fostering or adopting her? We also just discovered that Charlotte has heart worms. This is totally curable but expensive to treat. Please consider becoming Charlotte's sponsor to help cover the cost of making Charlotte 100% healthy. THANK YOU!