New Addition To The Family!

(Long personal post!  For politics, please scroll down)

Welcome, California Sky!  Aka “Callie.”  This sweet girl takes tidbits carefully, never letting her teeth touch your fingers.  No doggie smell!  No doggie breath!

Around September 1, 2020, this photo, which appeared on our online neighborhood network, appeared with a desperate plea of needing to rehome a niece’s three-year old hound mix (b. August 19, 2017).  She likely has Labrador Retriever in there, too:

The original owner was told that Callie is a Pocket Beagle. Clearly, she is not! But she was very small when first adopted — because Callie was taken from her mama dog at 3.5 weeks:

And Callie is so strong! Until I got an Easy Walk Harness, she was walking me!  The third day of her trial run here, she suddenly lunged on the leash — so suddenly that she dragged me through one of our oak Adirondack chairs and across the front porch! The chair did not fare well; neither did I. My bruises and soreness are almost all gone now, though.

Worse: Callie has never been properly housebroken. I got some help from the owner’s aunt, a dog expert, and from some reliable dog-training sites on the web, and have been working a plan (tether time, crate time, confined area, etc.). Housebreaking is coming along well.