What A Wonderful Weekend

It's been like a Swedish summer today, we loved being outside today after what has felt like a long period of rain and dreary weather.

We brought home our two kids from the kennel over the weekend, and it was wonderful. Twelve dogs in the house and everyone got along so great. Ariel and Nebbia are two of the dogs we rescued from the "terrible shelter" back in February. (more on earlier blog)

Nebbia was labeled as "aggressive" and sat alone in a small cage. When I met her the first time I knew it wasn't true. And it isn't. She's been tested several different times, in different ways, she lives together with Ariel. She's been with us at Carney Park playing with many different dogs. And, now this weekend, together with the whole pack. She is brilliant.

That's the danger when you label someone, the label sticks and it takes some great heart to see past the label and give them a chance (same goes with humans). If Nebbia wouldn't have told me that she was a kind-hearted dog, God knows what would have happened to her.
Nebbia the "aggressive dog" is resting on our patio and Roberto, who also comes from the same place (remember him with the ligament injury, also earlier blog). Roberto is doing great, happy, yappy and charming and his leg is completely healed.

Ariel has been in four shelters, her whole life; Nebbia in only one but they think for three to four years. Neither of them had ever been inside a house and it was so sweet to see them standing in the doorway, kind of thinking "what do we do now?"

We had to lift them in and they walked around just smelling and looking and then they laid down on their blankets and cuddled up with us. I am so proud over our pack, they are great Amore dogs.