Sunday, April 14, 2019 - Rocky's Home Visit
Juana reports:
Sunday was a very sunny day and perfect for a home visit. My granddaughter Emma helped her Nana (me) accompany Rocky to Terrell hoping to find his forever home. Emma was our photographer today and she did terrific.
Back at our shelter this morning Ronnie had giving Rocky a bath, he was clean and all ready for us. After we arrived to pick him up we drove to this very nice home, we looked at each other and said WOW, hope Rocky gets to stay but that didn’t happened, we were so sad for him.
Juana reports:
Sunday was a very sunny day and perfect for a home visit. My granddaughter Emma helped her Nana (me) accompany Rocky to Terrell hoping to find his forever home. Emma was our photographer today and she did terrific.
Back at our shelter this morning Ronnie had giving Rocky a bath, he was clean and all ready for us. After we arrived to pick him up we drove to this very nice home, we looked at each other and said WOW, hope Rocky gets to stay but that didn’t happened, we were so sad for him.
This nice couple had met Rocky at the Auto Show a few weeks ago and felt in love with him. Their dog Ricky is a 9 year old male who is very submissive and layback. After reviewing their application and deciding it looked good our next step was a home visit. The very purpose for doing a home visit is that we need to introduce all pets in a home to the dog the person wishes to adopt. Sometimes it works out and sometimes like today, it doesn’t.
Most of the time the dog that already lives in the home gets to decide if they want to welcome someone new into their home, but today it was our dog who said no to the other pet (dog/cat, whatever is the case). Rocky was very determined to say no and actually went after their him several times, I had a good hold of him so he was not able to hurt Ricky but you can tell it was a definitely no.
Most of the time the dog that already lives in the home gets to decide if they want to welcome someone new into their home, but today it was our dog who said no to the other pet (dog/cat, whatever is the case). Rocky was very determined to say no and actually went after their him several times, I had a good hold of him so he was not able to hurt Ricky but you can tell it was a definitely no.
Gary, Ricky’s dad, was disappointed of course, he would have loved to give Rocky a good home but he agreed with us that he couldn’t have Rocky not liking his dog Ricky. We talked for a while and he and his wife said they would like to come visit our shelter sometime soon and maybe find a good match for Ricky. I said “believe me, we have plenty of doggies back home” Well, back to the shelter we went with Rocky, maybe next time it will be a lucky day for him.
