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That's great news JR, thanks for sharing....

Molly looks a little beauty.......

I don't have a dog myself at the moment but my daughter has three. She's just had an operation on her foot and so I've been walking them and generally tending to the sick and needy.

One of her dogs is a Shitzu rescued from a puppy farm where she was used for breeding for about five years. My daughter has had her for 18 months and she's been quite withdrawn as you might expect.

These last few weeks she's really got comfortable with me and we're fast becoming best buddies. She'll sit with me for quite a while now and when she feels like it she'll lick my hand as if her life depended on it.

My patience with her is starting to pay off. Happy days.

That’s the love of, and for, a dog, Papgeno 

That's a lovely story Papgeno, thanks for sharing....

Patience is a virtue, the only way to gain a dogs trust in you.

Thanks for the update JR57, Molly looks a real beauty and fortunate to have such caring owners.

Also thanks to Papgeno for posting re the Shitzu.

It's great to have a best buddy especially one with four legs.

I've got three of them really. Of my daughter's three dogs I'd have to say that the Yorkie probably sees himself as my best mate. He's the one she has had longest and as a pup he used to sleep for long periods on my knees.

Now his favourite resting place is along the back of the sofa wrapped round my neck, so I'm sort of wearing him like a fox fur stole! That way he can look out of the window for danger and be close at the same time.

Her other dog is a bit of a mixture. He's got some Shitzu, a bit of spaniel and mainly Bauer terrier. He's just a bundles of cuddles. When he was a pup he could remove a stud earring from the OH's ears without her even knowing and leave it on the floor for us to find.

Rescue dogs are just so special and I'm sure they understand what you have done for them.  Were on number 7 now but our 4th took us over a year to get him to relax and start enjoying his new life with us. he lived until he was 17, a good age for a collie cross

Keep up the good work 

For the sake of accuracy Bailey is a Biewer Terrier. I got the spelling wrong😡🙄

I know there is a thread for talking about books that have been read and recommended but I thought a few dog lovers who do not frequent that thread might like to check out a book that I've just finished reading about a magnificent Pointer called Judy.

This dog was caught up in the second world war and is a true story.

It details her life from being adopted onto a Gunship in China to ending up as a POW in a Japanese POW camp in Sumatra and the humans who looked after her. It is as much a story about their survival as it is hers but the dog is rightly revered. She was magnificent and I would recommend those with a hardy disposition (some of the tales of POW life are hard going) to read it. Ultimately it confirms everything that dog lovers know about dogs and why we love them.

It's called "No Better Friend" by Robert Weintraub.

Thanks WN, I'm not big on book reading but my OH has read the book and keeps telling me to read it.

Animals in a war situation can be very moving. We watched War Horse again on TV the other night and I got something in my eye a few times.