Urgent! one year old black lab needs home.
People inquire and I shoot myself in the foot by being honest: she bit me & I don't trust her around babies. Plus she "leaks"and has signs of hip dysplasia. I don't want to waste time with those who will change their mind after they learn these things.
A couple people with dog experience can see beyond the problems ... labs are still a great pets.
So I took her to Florida and posted her down there on craigslist.
Dog Angel wanted to try her out so I drove 2 hours to drop her off.
Here come three dogs down the lane to meet us.
There are 2 horses, 3 cats, and a goose.
Zoie tucks tail while the 3 dogs follow her around sniffing her rear end. Two of them are black labs and one looks just like her.
There is a commotion behind the barn followed by too much quiet. Dog Angel goes off to investigate and I see Zoie running away from her and, oh no, did I see something in her mouth? Oh, please no, Zoie. She will not come to Dog Angel, so I call out: ZOIE! come! She comes to me and drops the shiny black chicken at my feet and looks up at me with a feather hanging off her lip.....Did I do good, Mommy?
That is one very dead chicken, I said.
I say Zoie, no, but I am not very insistent about it. God made her to kill birds and she has not yet been trained. It's too late anyway.
She takes off after the goose. Dog Angel has walked up and she's going NO NOT THAT ONE! I'm after Zoie yelling NO NO NO. She almost had the goose, but she did not get him and it hissed at her and she backed off. Dog Angel says the goose will go after her. Whew! That was close.
Dog Angel picks up the chicken and it's dead neck is hanging from her hand while she says to me, "She's 'a bird dog."
I apologize. I feel awful and I think I've driven out here for nothing.
But Dog Angel says she'd still like to try her for a couple days and that her dogs have done this, too. I used to cry, she said, but they are just yard ornaments. She really loves the dogs.
So I call in 2 days. This is a very sweet dog, she says, and she slept at the foot of my bed. and I love her, but she killed the neighbor's cat.
OH NO! I am so sorry......
I will come get her, unless you know someone who would like her?
So she thought about it all day.
When I call back, she carefully presents the shock collar idea. I sense she is afraid that I will get angry...that I will consider it cruel.
But she would like to try working with Zoie. She calls the collar 'letting God talk to her'. I am very ok with it. Zoie is responsive and it will not take much.
So in spite of Zoie's best efforts to make a bad impression, she has a new forever family. And what could be better for a dog? --life on a farm with a pack of dogs, horses, cats and geese. And a human who will take care of her every need. May they all live happily ever after.
