There are always a dozen 'black and tan hounds' in the pound, but this little bouncy one was in the Euthanize kennel, so I took a chance. Ilsa learned to open every door in my house in days, ate one of all my best shoes and then ate the middle out of the turkey in the sink on Thanksgiving day. However, I personally feel that you adopt a pet for life, so she stayed and became irrepaceable.
Then my partner went to the same pound and insisted on getting a beautiful dog, Maraih, who would not come to the front of the cage, was passive and uninterested. We suspected that she had been abused, but it turned out that she was also very ill with tick fever and took months to get well and very very affectionate.
That was over ten years ago and they have traveled, hiked, swam and lived together happily all that time.

Carol Hylton
Sun Lakes, AZ