Reply #8: When Babe got dumped off

[hippywife]

she was one of three that appeared in our driveway together. They must have been from the same litter and were almost fully grown. The vet estimated they were about six months old or so. We kept them all and two of them disappeared after a while. Never found them. They were all very leery of people and wouldn't come near us for a long time. If we went out in the yard, they would sit in the cow pasture next door until we went back inside.

Eventually, Babe and the other girl got over that and we were able to get them fixed and everything. (The boy never did give in to being near us and he never was caught to go to the vet.) The upside to all of this is the cow pasture is the bathroom. No dog doo-doo in the yard except when the odd strange dog from down the road visits. We had another stray that we took in and had for a couple of years before she went completely lame and had to be put down and even she learned to go to the cow pasture. Charlee is learning that, too, and has finally stopped bringing cow pats back with her to chew on! LOL

All the dogs on our road, including ours, roam up and down and visit. We call them time share dogs.