Rescue

The past five days Mandy has made progress each day. She is calming down from her puppy rearing ordeal. Before pups came, Mandy was taking chicken bites from my hand and starting to target to get the chicken. I hoped to get back to this point and begin progressing from there.

Rescued German Shepherd dog with history of physical abuse. She started out very nervous, pacing frantically in my presence, using avoidance. In the two weeks time, she graduated to taking food out of my hand while I scratched her chin with the other hand. She was starting to target. Then it all changed. Puppies came on March 3rd. Without going into full detail on what the next 5 weeks held for Mandy and my relationship, I'll tell you that is was one of the most difficult times I have been involved in...

my new friend from Puerto Rico likes to learn

"I think that bird is just misunderstood", I said.  "Yeah, really misunderstood - like we don't understand why he attacks everyone who comes in the room!", she said.  But that wasn't how he reacted to me.

New Sanctuary Training Dogs for Adoption