Entered: 01/20/2007
Status: Adopted
Age: 11
Color: Liver/White
Weight:
Gender: Altered Female
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Health: UTD, HW-, Lyme+ and undergoing treatment
Temperament: Good with adults, children unknown at this time, good with other dogs, cats unknown, some submissive urination
Updated 2/15/07: Ginger and her sister, Jenny, are rapidly learning to enjoy the good life. Both of them demonstrate what it means to “dog someone’s footsteps” and follow the members of their foster families from floor to floor. The girls fit right into the family routine breakfast, followed by a walk, and then a lazy day to themselves, uncrated, while the foster parents are at work. Ginger is the more outgoing of the two, and will push her sister aside to be the first to say “hello” to family members or strangers. She still has some submissive urination, but only when meeting strangers for the first time or when she thinks she has displeased her foster family.
Ginger and Jenny do not go willingly into a car, so their foster mom is taking them on field trips to teach them that car rides can be fun. During her first trip to a dog park, Ginger tried to get attention from the humans while avoiding their dogs, but she eventually warmed up to a playful little fox terrier. At her foster home, Ginger enjoys a good run around the backyard and will play outside by herself. Both Jenny and Ginger have learned to “wait” at the front door until they are given permission to go out. Their foster mom thinks this is a critical command since the delivery pizza can come in without the dogs going out!
Original: Ginger, together with her sister Jenny, is experiencing a very fortunate “culture shock” from outdoor life on a farm to the pampered life of an urban house pet. Cars, vacuum cleaners, toys, a noisy household and a warm bed– all of these are new to the girls. But, oh, how quickly they adapt!
Ginger is a short, stocky springer, weighing in at 30 pounds. She has soulful gold eyes and classic dark-brown markings. When her foster family brought her home, she hid from new people. She now competes with her sister for attention and is the first to seek affection. She greets her foster family with little whines of delight. She is very determined to wiggle her way into their hearts and onto the couch next to them. When someone is so cruel as to stop petting her, she wraps her front legs around the person’s leg and looks up pleadingly. She is low-key in the house.
Ginger loves treats which makes her an eager and quick learner. Within the week, she has learned “sit” and sits quietly to have her leash put on and off. She also walks on a leash which she initially feared. Ginger is housebroken. She will urinate submissively but has almost stopped now that she is comfortable in her new surroundings. Her previous owner did not have a car, so she has very little experience with car trips. So far, she has quietly huddled behind the back seat. She has not yet been crate-trained because she was temporarily traumatized by her first experience with a crate, which was combined with a long and scary car ride to her foster home.
Ginger has never been an “only” dog and easily shares her food and water bowls with her sister. Her foster mom can take away her food bowl and remove a rawhide chew from her mouth. Ginger does not trash pick, counter-surf, or dig. She has been baby-gated in a large kitchen-family room area during the day without a problem. Ginger and her sister have been brought in from the cold. Can you go one step further and bring Ginger into the warmth of your loving, forever home?