Introducing our new foster-dog, Espresso - Pressie to us. She's a 1.5 year old chow mix they say, but we don't see a lot of chow in her, more shepherd we think. She actually reminds us of a black coyote to tell the truth - very lean and tall and just the way she moves. Bryan thinks she looks like one of those black police dogs, except she is kinda small.
She has been at Watermelon Mountain Ranch (WMR) for quite a while now, & she is so horrifically shy and timid - I think she has been "adopted" a couple times but is always returned because of her timidness. So far we haven't seen ANY aggressive behavior in her, but you must move very slowly and talk softly to her or she bolts, its better to just sit, then she'll come up to you. This will certainly be a challenge... She paces a lot if we are up and about but when we go in to watch TV she settles down nicely. Not sure if she is house broke yet or not... guess we'll find out tonight. I do know not to let her outside off-leash as she is too scared to come close to you again and it took me FOREVER to get her back into the house. :-(
Right now, she is trying hard to stay awake. She starts to fall asleep and fall over and that jerks her awake. Se just isn't comfortable enough yet (we just picked her up at 3:30 today) to trust falling asleep here. She keeps nodding off and leaning over then jerking back awake. Poor baby.
