My Dog Sasha

Mike and I LOVE dogs. We love them so much if we had the room we would have a dog farm! We have always wanted a dog. We tried twice before actually. But we lived in apartments and it just never worked out. We felt like we were neglecting them b/c they were cramped in an apartment or else there were neighbors to complain. I do not miss apartment life! We wanted to rescue/adopt a dog and that was our plan until we saw this little girl needed a home or else she would go to the pound. We were the first to contact the woman who had her and she promised to hold onto her until we could get her. We were a week out from closing on our house and had no place to put her until then. I drove out to pick her up March 1st, 2008. A friend of mine offered to go with me so I wouldn't have to go to a stranger's house alone. I was glad she came with me. The house was very dirty and I could tell Sasha was so happy to get out of there. Sasha wouldn't eat for 2 weeks after we got her. Well, she would nibble here and there but she refused to eat. We finally got her into the vet for a checkup and her shots. The vet was able to tell us she had 2 types of worms and 1 of which he said dogs only get from very nasty environments. We felt so bad for Sasha. I was so glad at that point that we had taken her and I did feel like we had rescued her. She was not the only dog at that house so I'm sure the other doggies were sick too. Sasha's medicine to get rid of the worms was not cheap. She also had some type of infection from them. He explained to us why she wasn't eating and what she was feeling inside. They gave us some special dog food that would not hurt her stomach. After a couple of weeks she was well. She started eating normal and she's a very happy dog.

Mike and I love Cesar the Dog Whisperer and we follow all his techniques. It has worked wonders for us with Sasha, not that she was misbehaved b/c she wasn't, but it keeps her in line and she knows who her pack leaders are. =) Once a month I take her to a Pet Motel in Ozark and let her spend the day in what they call Doggy day care. She gets to stay all day and be pampered by the ladies there and have play time with other dogs her size. She also gets a bath and her nails trimmed while she is there. It is a day all about Sasha. And she knows where I'm going to when I take her. She goes nuts when we pull down the street the motel is on. She can see all the other dogs in the play area and she wants to be with them. The ladies up there love her. They always want to keep her.

I wouldn't say Sasha is the perfect dog, but I like to think she is. =) But there are times she tests us and it's just every so often out of the blue. We will come home and she will have some how found something and of course chewed on it....what else would a dog do with it? =) But usually we have done something to make her mad. For example she doesn't like it sometimes when we both get home from work and have to leave immediately for something else. And I don't blame her. She's alone all day and longs for 4pm when Mike gets home and then 5pm when "Mommy" gets home. Mike says sometimes I love her too much and I get in trouble for spoiling her. But it's so hard. She knows when Daddy is mad and then she will come to me and look at me with those HUGE brown sad eyes. She is a nut but I love her.