I have a friend how works at a vets office and when she has a poo in need she calls me! Daisy ended up there at her vets office and due to patient confidentiality all I know about her is that she was supposed to be part of a Labradoodle breeding group. Her former name was Chloe, but for all I know she may have been bred by someone in another state. Her past vet records (names have been blacked out) say her last rabies shot was licensed in a southern Indiana county.
The girl who worked at the office did say she came in with 2 black lab females but the vet said it looked like if she had ever been bred it wasn't recently...the labs on the other hand looked like they had been bred every cycle from 6 months old.
The lady who brought them in wanted the labs, but took her in a deal (all 3 for $200) so she just gave her to the girl in exchange for getting to use her employee discount on getting all 3 checked out, wormed, ear mite stuff, ect. I paid the girl $50 to cover her boarding and for a new collar and leash she had bought her and went and got her.
So before me within 24 hours time Daisy went through the hands of 3 people. Daisy went from being part of a rescue from a breeder who was "down-sizing" (the lady who went to southern IN to get the trio and a few others the breeder was selling), to the girl at the vet who in turned called me.
I hope she hasn't been bred before, but I about bet she has...she is so good with the little ones it does make me wonder. She sure does love my youngest son...the minute he cries she wakes up and runs to the baby gate, stands there for a minute, then runs to me..."hey mom, the baby is awake!"
She sits beside the high chair when he eats and lays in the kitchen when he is crawling about the floor...that is where she can see him and keep her eye on me, too. I am hoping that she does better as she settles in more...I guess that you have to be careful when you take a dog like that in.
I mean things could be a lot worse, she could have really been traumatized by being hit or something. More than anything I think she was just totally ignored, and never seen a man before in her life! Her worst fear is men, and the bigger or taller or deeper voiced the worse she is.
John has said many times that Daisy hates him, but even now she has started to come out and see him when he comes into the kitchen. Normally she would just watch him, but now she will even circle around him a bit with her tail up.
If it were me and she is asleep and I come in the kitchen I get "jerk head up, recognize mommy, stretch, itch, groan, get up, come out, poke mom in the rear with my big nose, and when I turn around to say hi to her I get the full blown silly poodle dance. I know you have seen the silly poodle dance?
You know...elbows touching the floor with feet off floor, front end down, back end up, mouth wide open with multiple sneezes and snorts! then they stand straight up and run around in a circle, then flop the front end right back down again. Like a play bow with more involvement?
Daisy shakes the whole house when she does it!
I don't know how big she is exactly in lbs but she is 20 inches at the withers...does that qualify her as being a mini pony? :tongue:
I think she weighs about 80-90 lbs now...she weighed 70 lbs at the vets office in June and I think she has put on at least 5-10 lbs since she got here. She is allergic to corn (found that out at my vets) and had probably been living on a corn based kibble her whole life...and was full of worms to boot. So after worming and new diet I bet she has put on at least that much. I wish my vets scales went over 50 lbs...and she is too big to hold while I stand on bathroom scales.
Most of the ones you typically see here in Indiana are much smaller...although I haven't been to a show in years so they be breeding them bigger now.
I about died when I first saw her, I thought oh no...she is a mixed breed and I am going to be allergic to her and she needs me so badly right now! She was covered in hair, mats, sticks and leaves matted in her feet and it was hard to tell she was not even if she was a dog. I told the girl I guess I would find out if I was allergic to her on the way home in the car...luckily I didn't sneeze or anything!