This is from the person who has Win now.

This is from the person who has Win now.  He seems to be doing great - blossoming - as I suspected he would.  He's playing a little, getting some love, and even tolerating being brushed a bit.

Rescue dogs are awesome.  And my rescue friends are nothing short of AMAZING.  ❤❤❤

Just took the crew outback, only the fence jumping Shiv on line. Mr Win, Shiv the wild, Drago a GSD youth, Escher aka Tener a Great Dane, 10 mos., Banjo now four and Audrey my ACD baby.  A mix most people can't imagine. Drago is well bred but insane lol.  Escher is a puppymill rescue who spent his first six months in a six by six cage with 7 other Dane puppies, Mr. Win who isn't sure at all that humans are ok, Banjo who was beaten starved wrapped in duct tape, burnt with cigarettes and left to die, Cricket a shelter pup, nine pounds of attitude. 

And they went outside, the abused, the abandoned, the well bred and the disasters and they... Played.  Like dogs.  They touched base with me, even Win, they dug, they patrolled the fence and Audrey remembered we don't bark at the horse. 

Butts were sniffed and holes were dug. There were chases and laughter. Bugs were killed and Shiv wondered if she should open the trash can. 

Most of them throw aways. Why rescue? Why foster? Because they didn't ask to be born and someone has to be responsible. 

That's the serious reason.  Joy is the real reason. The first shy kiss from a dog like Win.  The moment when a dog like Shiv shifts from runaway to trust. To watch sickly little Calvin become the massive and joyous Great Boar Hound of the Backyard, and the shattered Banjo become an irrepressible love sponge. Joy, silliness, laughter and beauty. Watching Escher RUN, when he'd never even seen grass.  Seeing Cricket in CHARGE, when I found her weighing only fifteen ounces with Parvo. 

I don't understand people who won't.  Sure 12 million will die unwanted or ill or unsound next year. But these won't.  They improve my life. They give me joy, love, laughter. 

People who've never wrought the shift from fear to trust will never know one of the most powerful things in existence. 

I stopped trying to educate humans. They're impossible.  Watching that weird impossible mix of dogs from 110+ to nine pounds, abused or priviledged all play suggested to me, we have a lot to learn.