New Dog on the Farm

by Lorine of The Dog Team

It's been over 5 years since my old dog Suki had to be put down. Suki was a Benji lookalike, very sweet but terrified of everything. We got her from a shelter when she was about one year old. In her past home she'd suffered physical abuse and any sudden movement or noise terrified her.

She was a great dog but after she died I wasn't ready for another one. Until now.

In May I started looking seriously for a dog that would fit our lifestyle. We live on a hobby farm and I wanted a dog that was good with our animals (donkey, sheep, birds) and that might help my husband with farm chores. I had a Suki clone in mind of course.

The shelter brought out a scruffy, terrified, skinny dog with wolf-eyes (nothing like my little Suki!) and that was it. I told my husband she was so ugly that no one would ever adopt her so we had to! Besides she had lived on a farm, was used to animals and best of all was a herding dog! I figured she could help hubby when the sheep got out.

Continue reading New Dog on the Farm, the first in a series: Tails of Barley The Psycho Dog & Webley