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90 day update on our 3 year old rescue heeler mix nell who did not voluntarily leave her crate for the first 21 days after we brought her home, the moment on day 22 involving a piece of grocery store rotisserie chicken and a childrens book being read out loud that i genuinely thought was silly and it worked, the 3-3-3 rule as an honest calendar rather than a shelter poster, the well meaning neighbor who bent down to greet her on day 8 and set us back four days, and the real answer to whether an adult shy rescue can actually come out of her shell or whether that is a fairy tale we tell ourselves at drop off

Nell is a 3 year old blue heeler mix, 41 pounds, came to us through a rural rescue on april 8th of this year, so we are exactly 92 days in as of writing. her intake photo was two eyes and a black nose...

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fourteen month writeup on adopting a four year old female cavalier from a commercial breeder shutdown where the rescue org pulled one hundred eighty seven dogs in a single intake, the rehab journey from never-socialized adult to a functional family dog, and the timeline pieces the standard rescue dog literature does not capture

Margot is our 5 year old female blenheim cavalier king charles spaniel, 18lb, came to us at age 4 through a regional cavalier rescue that took intake of 187 dogs from a commercial breeding facility...

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one year mark with our pit bull mix who had been returned to the rescue three separate times before us, the turnaround was bigger than i would have believed twelve months ago, writing it down because the rescue feed is mostly heartbreak content and the version that worked is also worth reading

Apollo is a 4 year old pit bull mix, 58lb, came home with us last june from a county rescue that had pulled him from a hoarding situation as a 7 month old puppy. by the time we adopted him he had been...

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three years ago we took home a profoundly shutdown owner surrender heeler mix from a hoarding seizure and wanted to share the year three update because the shutdown rescue conversation lives in the first ninety days and rarely follows families into the long arc, the version of the multi year timeline is the version that families inside year one of a similar case need to hear from the other side of it

Persimmon is a seven year old blue heeler mix who came to us three years ago at age four from a hoarding case that the local rescue had pulled forty two dogs from over a six week period. She was the...

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ninety days into the decompression of a three year old shepherd mix we adopted from a rural hoarding case in february, writing up what the first three months actually looked like because the published resources on hoarding case adoption did not match what we lived through and someone reading this in the same situation is going to need a more honest version

Greta is a 3 year old female shepherd mix, we adopted her from a county shelter that took in 47 dogs from a hoarding case in the rural part of our state in early february. The shelter staff was honest...

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