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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Katoula - Wanna Play?

Introducting Katoula! She came into our lives and stole our hearts from the moment we saw her. It's hard to believe that when we first met Katoula in September she was a shy girl. Very different from our first beloved Ridgie, Solomon, who was Mr. Outgoing and known by everyone in our neighborhood. He died of cancer this summer and we knew we had to bring another RR into our family to make it complete.
Enter sweet, spunky, shy Katoula. We enrolled in obedience training right away, as I wanted to make sure that I was not reinforcing Katoula's fears. With the encouragement of many treats, praises and friends, her shyness and fears melted away. It has been rewarding to see her blossom and grow. She is confident, like RR's should be, and now she just wants to have fun. And lay in front of the fireplace, sniff everything when we go on walks, re-make our beds (apparently we don't know how to properly make them), respectfully hog the bed each night, snuggle, kiss and greet every dog she sees. Katoula even greets the people!
We are so thankful for RRUS -they matched us with the perfect dog.
Does anybody wanna play?

5 Comments:

At 12/07/2006 4:51 PM, Blogger Patti A. said...

What a cutie pie. You obviously have done things right by her. She looks so happy.

 
At 12/07/2006 6:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

LONG LIVE, LOVE AND PLAY, KATOULA!!!!

I'm so happy for you Debi. Christmas has definitely come early for you this year.

And what beautiful light carpeting you have!
The better to see all those muddy paw prints on!!!

 
At 12/16/2006 9:44 AM, Blogger Mich Melis said...

What a wonderful, heartwarming story. She's beautiful: one of my favorite 'poses' of the RRs is when they face you like Katoula and you can see the ridge so clearly. Congratulations!

 
At 12/23/2006 10:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah Kat! We'll have to play someday-
Shellie and CLifford

 
At 3/03/2007 7:43 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

AWW katoula is such a cutie! she is so fun to hang around with!!
she is not shy at all anymore [: she surley stole my heart the first time i met her.that cutie.
-Rebe

 

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