[pyrnet] Fostering and a cute story

[Rhonda Collins <rhonda@castlepublishing.com>]

Kudos to all of you who foster dogs of any sort. I
don't think I could do it...I'd end up with a house full of dogs, because
I'd never be able to let go of them.

I've got to tell you a cute Newman story. Yeah, I know...I sound like a
proud mama with her baby...showing pictures everywhere, but that's how I
am with my dogs. Each one becomes my "baby". 

A couple of days ago, it rained just a bit in the night, and when I got
up I let Newman out while I got ready for work. When it was time to put
him back in the bathroom, where he stays until my  husband gets up,
I saw that Newman had somehow found enough mud to roll in! He was covered
(literally) from head to toe. He had very few white places left on his
entire 80 lb body! 

Well, I didn't want to leave him outside, as I don't trust him not to dig
out, and the fence in the back is not quite high enough (we're working on
fixing that), so I brought him inside and put him back in the bathroom
and left an e-mail for my hubby to take him outside and squirt the mud
off and towel dry him before HE went anywhere.

Between the time I put him in the bathroom and the time my husband got up
to clean him off, Newman had "finger painted" the entire
bathroom in mud. There was not one square inch of clean in the entire
room! He had "laid" across the dressing table, painted paw
prints on the mirror...and most surprising of all, he had even painted
five inches of mud on the wallpaper that covers the TOP half of the
wall.  Now folks, there was NOTHING on that wall that he could've
wanted. He obviously stood on his hind feet and "painted" that
entire five inches all along that wall from the door to the bathtub
(which was ALSO covered in mud).  So you see, I can tell HOW he did
it...I just can't tell WHY!!!!  He's usually not that hyper. Even as
muddy as he was, I didn't think there was that much mud on his 
body!

Hubby left the bathroom for ME to clean, saying he wanted me to "get
to see Newman's artistic handiwork".