Sunny


I am Sunny, a 2 yr old female.

5/3/12

Hey be sure to come to meet me at the DeBella dog walk on  Sunday.   I will be there from 1 – 3.  Check out the events page for details!
10th Annual Debella Dog Walk
Sunday May 6, 2012
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Time:  11:00am to 3:00pm
Location:  Green Lane Park
2144 Snyder Road
Green Lane, PA
~ Sunny~

 

3/12/20102
Hey Everyone, I wanted to share my first experience in the Physical Thereapy pool with everyone. I loved it and really enjoyed swimming with Miss Toni. I am really making great improvements with my knee. I fall asleep during the lazor and electrode treatments.
My Foster mom tells me that my confidence level is really getting strong. I don’t know what that means but I do know it don’t take me as long to enjoy new experiences. I would like to go to the Reading Pet Expo but I am not sure if I am ready for that. It makes me nervous being around all those people. But I want to go and show off my new life. So we will see….maybe.
I am doing really well with the house training.  I try really hard to wait to go potty until I am outside.  It don’t take me nearly as long to go potty once I am outside.
I am still nervouse about men but I am working on this.  When I see a man come close to me I bark, even though I want him to pet me.  When he comes over and reaches out to me I will invite him to pet me. But then when he walks away I start barking again.  It’s a little confusing but FM gives me treats when I let a man touch me so it is worth it.
I have to go now but I just wanted to let everyone know that “I LOVE LIFE”
Love
Sunny
Feb 26, 2012
Hey Everyone, it’s Sunny here and I am feeling great!  I get my staples out today and can’t wait until I can run again. I start physical therapy this week and my FM said that I will get to swim in a pool.  I really hope there are frogs in this pool that I can play with. FM is teaching me all these new things, it’s a lot of fun.  Everytime I hear a click I get a treat.  Clicker training is easy. I was really busy on Sunday.  My fur-brother hurt his self and couldn’t even pick his self up off the ground.  While we waited for the Vet to call back, I decided to bring all the toys from the toy basket to him.  So one by one I brought them over and laid them by all around where he was laying.  I them laid with him until he was feeling better.  I felt so sad for him so I didn’t want to let him alone.  My FM said she has never seen such selfless love.  I am not sure what she meant by that, but one thing I do know, I love my fur-brother and glad he is feeling better. Well I have to go for now because I need to rest so I can be strong for my fur-brother and my swimming with the frogs.  Enjoy these pictures of me playing nurse to my furbrother!



Feb 19th, 2012
Today has been a much better day for me. I am starting to put pressure on my leg when walking. It’s just a small touch to the floor but it is  right on schedule with what the Dr. said I would be doing.
There is a new boarding a dog that isn’t crazy about meeting new dogs but this dog and I do very well together.  We are walking around the house together as if we been together forever.  I do a great job at greeting and socializing with other dogs.
I am also doing better at greeting strangers. I still bark but I don’t back up when they come to petme.  I barks and wag my tail at the same time.  That is a good sign.
Feb 16, 2012
Hey guys it is me briefly checking in to let you know how my surgery went. I am a little groggy but they say everything went really well.  Turns out my meniscus was completely torn along with my CCL.  So they repaired both and cleaned out the extensive arthritis around the joint.  They also found something (cartlidge or tendant) between my joint so they needed to repair that as well.  My foster mom came to visit me tonight and I was sleeping comfortably on my morphine drip. Foster mom brought my “baby”with her so when I woke up it was next to me.  That is my favorite toy. My temperature was low so they laid some hot water bottles under my covers and then I was toasty warm.  My foster mom is picking me up tomorrow to go home.
Feb 14th, 2012,
Here is an update from Sunny’s loving foster home!  She is having the best Valentines Day EVER!!!!
Sunny is transitioning into home living very well.  This past weekend I thought about just a few weeks ago Sunny would have been outside or in a barn during the snow and windy, cold weather.  I am so glad that Brookline rescued her from all of that.
She has mastered the front three steps to get into the house.  We no longer have to carry her up the front steps.  She runs to the back door when she is asked, “Do you wanna go out?”  She is starting to go in and out of her crate, on her own, to get treats and toys.  We still need to pick her up to put her in her crate at night; I guess she is still not sure if we will still be there in the morning. That will come with time. She is learning that her crate is her safe zone. In the morning, even if we are up, she patiently lies there and quitly waits for us to open the door.  What a good girl.
I am waiting to work on Sit and Down until after her leg is feeling better.  I don’t want to ask her for a behavior that might hurt her.  But we are working on Leave it, polite greeting, and wait.  She is starting to understand to wait at the back door and not enter the mud room until she is invited to go through the door way.  She loves her baby toys.  She carries them everywhere with her.  I have these fuzzy slippers that she thinks are her babies.  She went to pick them up; I asked her to leave it, and she turned and looked at me.  I threw her baby to her and she walked away.  She is really smart and has a very strong desire to please.
We are going to go out and visit people today and tomorrow.  I want her to start to meet strangers and know that good things come when she meets good people.  She is starting to alert bark when people come into our home and only stops when they come up to her and pet her.  She is getting very attached to me.  I spent time away from home yesterday so she can hang out with Kevin and build her trust in him as well.  When I got home, they were all sleeping.  Kevin and Sunny were cuddled up on the sofa and my other two dogs were right next to them.  He also told me, Sunny loves Vanilla Wafer cookies.  He seems to think he should share is sweet tooth with the dogs.  I try, but sometimes………. lol
Sunny is going to get a bath today so she is all clean and smelling good for the Doctor on Thursday.  So I have a busy day ahead of me.  Gotta go, talk to you soon.
Feb 8th 2012
Psst…..over here.  Hi, my name is Sunny. I am a 2 yr old yellow female Labrador.  I love to be outdoors running around with my fur foster siblings but my foster mommy said I can’t until after surgery and I heal.  I have to admit, she is pretty smart because when I do run, it hurts.
You see, I started life out on a farm with a breeder.  I lived in a barn which was pretty cool except when it got cold or when I was lonely.  I didn’t have a whole lot of contact with humans except the ones that would come see the puppies.  One day my owner contacted a woman and said that I wasn’t working out and they didn’t need me anymore.  I didn’t understand why because I thought I was being good and only asking for something when I was really, really hungry or thirsty.
So this super nice lady came with all these great treats in their pockets and talked to me, played with me, and said really nice things about me.  I really didn’t understand what she was saying, but she had a big smile on their face.  If there is one thing I can read, it is body language.  I am really good at that.
Soon after that, I was put in a car to start my new life.  I had never been in a car before, no one told me it would make my belly feel funny.  I was taken to a kennel until my foster home could pick me up.  A few days later my new Foster Mommy picked me up at the Spa.  They had given me a bath so I would look really pretty for my new home.  She too picked me up and put me in her car and drove away. My belly felt funny again but this time I didn’t make a mess.  My foster mommy said I did a good job.
Well here I am, at my new foster home where I found out that the reason I wasn’t working out at my last home is because I have a torn CCL and Meniscus and I need expensive surgery. So as soon as I am off my medicine for my ear infection I can have surgery.  I don’t know what that is, but my foster mommy said it will make me feel better and I will be able to run again.
I can’t wait until I am better and you can meet me because I know you will fall in love with me.  I am sooooo adorable….so I am told.  I am pretty much in love with anyone that wants to pet me.  Sometimes it is hard for me to immediately trust new people but I am working on that.  You have to understand that my experience with humans wasn’t always the best.  I am learning that meeting new people equals a click and then I get a treat.  I can work with that.  I have never done stairs, or gone anywhere so everything is pretty new to me.  My foster home is working with me to experience new things.   I really am a lover and want to trust everyone.  I want to spend the rest of my life knowing that I am loved.  So for now, I will be working on learning how to do steps, that the only place to go to the bathroom is outside, and good things happen when strangers pet me and I don’t need to be afraid.  Get ready, because as soon as I am better, I am coming home to you!