The Twiggy update
ByWell, Twiggy has been with us for several months now and she is doing great. Earlier today we went to the local SPCA Dog Jog, an event that features fly ball and agility demonstrations, as well as showing some of the dogs that are currently in the SPCA waiting to be adopted.
Monique and I took the kids, but unfortunately we couldn’t take Twiggy with us — we just weren’t sure how she would react in that situation and didn’t want to take any chances. We did talk to the organizers of the fly ball club and told them Twiggy has been trained in the sport, so they invited us to a class tomorrow.
I’m pretty excited to see how she will do tomorrow because many of the characteristics we notice in Twiggy were present in the dogs today: high-energy, focus, determination, loyalty. It was really incredible to see so many dogs behaving like she does. We figured that fly ball would be a really good release for her and from what we hear, she was pretty good at it — maybe we’ll have a champion.
When we started fostering her, they recommended she be placed in a home without kids because of her demeanor, but she is doing very well with ours. We couldn’t ask for a better, if not a little calmer dog.
