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Suga's Tip (June 30, 2006):

Suga is one of our four dogs.  She came to us from the Max Fund, an animal shelter in Denver.  We volunteer there and promised we would not adopt a dog from there because we already had three dogs.  Mike remembered meeting Suga about a month before we adopted her in May of last year.  During this month she had gone to three different homes.  Each person that adopted her returned her with different stories about her attacking their cat (she now kisses our cat Lollipop) and not being able to spend enough time with her.  After about a week of having her at home we realized the real reason they returned her.  Suga was not house broken.  She also would not go potty outside.  Mike would take her for 30-40 minute walks and she would not go outside.  Turns out her first guardian litter box trained her.  She was trained to go inside.  After figuring this out we worked long and hard with her and she now is the perfect dog (although she was still perfect before). 

Suga wants you to take away two tips from this story.  The first one is to volunteer at a local animal shelter.  Even just going once a week is a great thing.  Spend some time with the dogs and cats.  There are so many animals that need our love.  The animals at the shelters need to learn that not all humans are going to give up on them so easily, and that many of us are caring and gentle.  The second tip she has is to be patient.  If you do adopt an animal realize that they have been through a great trauma.  It may take time to figure out why they have the behaviors they have and then we can work with them to help them through these behaviors.