- that it takes time and a lot of patience to rescue a dog
- that first tail wag might be weeks away
- fears sometimes never go away
- trust is earned over and over again

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Absolutely. After months or years of wondering, just when you least expect it...and worth everything.
Karen & Jack
This post brought tears to my eyes. I often wonder how anyone could have been mean to Cali or treated her badly, she just wants love. And she is such a good dog..... I believe she wants to trust us, but if we move too quick or tend to raise our voice, she hides. We keep telling her its ok, hug or pet her to try to let her know it is ok and no one will hurt her ever( while thinking in my head, I don't know what I would do to the person or persons who knew her or had her before me ). I just can not imagaine why anyone would want to mistreat her in any way. She trys so hard to please us, you can see it it in her actions, and she is such a beautiful dog both inside and out. Deena
Deena, this will be Ginger's third Christmas with us and she has really in the past four months or so, left a lot of that behind. That first Christmas she had been here about two weeks. She was in hiding the whole time. I will never understand either how someone could do bad things to animals. But rest assured, Cali will progressively get better and better and you will celebrate those little things that she has gotten past, too. Then you will be able to write about what "only a rescue mom would know." Give her lots and lots of hugs and kisses. She will come around.
In January, it will be three years that Jackdoodle has been mine. For the whole first year, I wondered if he was waiting for his old owner to come back for him. He didn't really seem unhappy, he seemed to like us, but he just didn't seem to be at home, here or in the world itself. Like he just didn't know what to do with himself. And the fear issues were major, major, major....anything and everything made him jump, cower, or try to run. Some of it was, we think, abuse. But some of it was also from never having been exposed to people, places, things,...the world!
It happens so slowly, the trust; it almost sneaks up on you. One day you realize that you can move almost any kind of way around him, and there's no reaction; he KNOWS he's safe with you. And eventually, you can see that he KNOWS this is HIS house, and his yard, and that he's home. It takes a lot of time and love, as Lynne always says, and there will a step backwards, now and then. The other night, it was very windy outside when we took our walk, and a sheet of newspaper blew at him from out of nowhere, and he was frightened for a moment. But now, when I tell him "It's okay", now he believes me.
It will come for you and Cali, too...time, and love. Hugs to you both. Karen & Jack
- that a scary medical procedure and possibly a lifetime of shots won't make him love you any less!
Reply by Karen & Jack on December 29, 2008 at 6:32pm
Well, God bless you....
Thank you for thinking of that, and telling me.
But then, only a rescue mom would know.
Reply by Lynne NJ on December 29, 2008 at 6:35pm
Love you girl! Remember, you and I started all this.
Oh my gosh, sometimes I could just cry! She came to me, put her legs up on my legs and asked for pets!!!! Woohoo. She accepts my pets now and even lets me scratch the top of her head and touch or kiss her nose. She actually comes over and asks me for them, now. She has been here about 3 years and has been out of the hellhole mill for just over 3 years. Little things, like the UPS guy at the door, will set her back a bit. Her squeeky bark, reminding me again of what they did to her. But she is safe now and I will slay her dragons if I have to.

How I hate those millers...3 years to ask for pets....3 years......I hope they rot in hell.

I am thrilled for her progress and I know she will continue to be OK, but just when I think she has forgotten, something rears it's ugly head in her mind and she's that scared little puppy again. The tiniest successes are so wonderful. Only a rescue mom would know ...
Sleeping with their head on my foot as I sit on the computer, it is the little things that make you so proud of the little doodle bug! One step at a time, no matter how small..... she has made me stop and realize the little things are important..... she needed me, but I often wonder how much I needed her....
Those little things are such milestones for a rescued dog. I am glad you are getting to experience them...there is no greater feeling in the world to a rescue mom!
You will continue to have "firsts." Ginger is three years old and just this summer, let a strange man touch and pet her without cringing or running away. These great moments will keep coming and each one is wonderful and a win for us and a lose for the puppymill/abusers/losers who created these scared babies. Love conquers ALL!

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