DAY 6 – Today I got major QT. The Foster Lady spent the whole day with me and we went for a long car drive, all by ourselves, no Meathead, no Tubby. The Foster Lady says I am very good in the car…and I am! NO ACCIDENTS! We got to a very quiet place, with lots of trees around. The Foster Lady calls it ‘the mountains’ and she spread out a blanket and I got to be a ‘snuggle bug’ with her in the sun. That was very, very nice. I went for a walk in ‘the woods’ with her; smelled something called ‘deer poop’. Guess I will get to see one of those ‘deer' sometime.

I wonder sometimes if people understand that for some of us dogs that end up at ‘the shelter’, that we have never been inside a house before? We might have lived in a little shed in the backyard, or tied to a doghouse with a 2 foot chain….some of us may have just been on the run for a long, long time.

We have no idea about things like ‘tv’, which I still find amazing, soft things called ‘sofas and chairs’, food that comes from a bag and not the garbage can. I keep seeing other dogs when I look out the window at night and I bark at them. ‘Silly girl Leni’ The Foster Lady says…that’s you…looking at yourself in the darkened window. All that kind of stuff; I do hope that people who adopt us understand that it will take a bit of time for many of us to adjust to a ‘house’. We may leap over furniture, be unable to settle down, but trust me when I tell you, once we get the hang of it, we are very, very happy dogs.