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The Story of Samone~ While on the theme of goats.....
Hubby and I have this running argument about what foser dogs of ours we "would have kept" if things were different because they were favorites. Keeping this list helps us give them up. These are not necessarily the dogs with the best stories, but they are the ones we personally found in some way most wonderful. Whenever I make my list, Samone is on it.
I first heard about the dog when a backyard breeder phoned my organization. She said she had "show" flat coat retrievers and would my group like to buy them? We normally had people on a huge wait list for us to TAKE dogs for free, so I had to hold back my snort of laughter and say no, I could not buy the pups. Click.
About a week later another volunteer was calling me. The same lady was now "moving tomorrow" and the dogs were going to the pound today if we did not pick them up. I sent my friend over to get them and instructed her to not pay ANY money.
She gets there and there are three pups. Right away she sees that they are not purebred, because the mother dog is there and is obviously a purebred golden retriever. My friend points this out and says that her breeding dog is not even a flat coat, and the woman replies that "flat coats were created using golden retrievers so they were still purebred flat coats." We honestly did not care one way or another and my friend took all three dogs home to foster herself. They were thin and terribly carsick and my friend said the breeder was driving them around in the trunk of her car with the trunk closed! Poor dogs. Samone never liked riding in the car again.
In any event, my friend found all three dogs homes despite them being extremely poorly socialized. However, Samone came back from her adoption, and I am the one who took her in that time. She had never warmed up to the other dogs and the people just did not like her. She was by this time a young adult, sleek, black and gorgeous and looked exactly like flat coat retrievers are supposed to....if my friend had not seen her mom we would not have believed her mom was a golden. Such a loving dog, I could not believe that the people had not liked her. I loved her! So stately and regal and beautiful. Aloof, not like a golden. She never demanded anything. And when you petted her, she would make this soft little moan and hold perfectly still. I guess that is where the family got the name "Samone".
Well, I had nice friendly dogs....perhaps they could warm Samone up, hmmm? Well, no. She hated other dogs. She was the sweetest an most cuddly dog ever and very smart, but she never liked any other dogs. We began looking for an only-dog home for her. But we had also learned Samone had separation anxiety and did not like to be alone. So we needed a home where the person was home a lot AND there were no other dogs.
She could not go to adoption events because she got snarly at the other dogs and internet applications were not doing it for her. But finally (I worked for a vet at the time) a client where I worked was telling me she was looking for a flat coat, did I know of any? I was floored and said I had one, or at least I had a 1/2 flat coat, would she like to meet it? She said it had to be good with goats. I said hmmmmmm.............
I had no goats or experience with them at that time. Neither did Samone. But we took her over there and Samone did great. After a trial, she got adopted! I actually learned how to introduce dogs to goats from that lady.
Later I heard from this person several times as Samone remained a client at that clinic. Samone became enamored with the goats and eventually became a guardian dog! She trained herself. She kept leaping into the pen with the goats so she could be near them. At first her family was worried, until they saw she wanted in there to be with the goats, not hurt them.
And Samone never had separation anxiety again! She had her loving family and her job to do and NO other dogs. She thinks she is a goat!
Since I'd love to have a guardian dog now, I really wish I had kept Samone! But I know that she has had a good life these past years with her family and after all, I'm savingdogs....she would never, never have been the only dog. And the windy road to our house would have been a trial for a carsick dog. But as a guardian dog, she almost never goes anywhere, she is always with her goaties.
Hubby and I have this running argument about what foser dogs of ours we "would have kept" if things were different because they were favorites. Keeping this list helps us give them up. These are not necessarily the dogs with the best stories, but they are the ones we personally found in some way most wonderful. Whenever I make my list, Samone is on it.
I first heard about the dog when a backyard breeder phoned my organization. She said she had "show" flat coat retrievers and would my group like to buy them? We normally had people on a huge wait list for us to TAKE dogs for free, so I had to hold back my snort of laughter and say no, I could not buy the pups. Click.
About a week later another volunteer was calling me. The same lady was now "moving tomorrow" and the dogs were going to the pound today if we did not pick them up. I sent my friend over to get them and instructed her to not pay ANY money.
She gets there and there are three pups. Right away she sees that they are not purebred, because the mother dog is there and is obviously a purebred golden retriever. My friend points this out and says that her breeding dog is not even a flat coat, and the woman replies that "flat coats were created using golden retrievers so they were still purebred flat coats." We honestly did not care one way or another and my friend took all three dogs home to foster herself. They were thin and terribly carsick and my friend said the breeder was driving them around in the trunk of her car with the trunk closed! Poor dogs. Samone never liked riding in the car again.
In any event, my friend found all three dogs homes despite them being extremely poorly socialized. However, Samone came back from her adoption, and I am the one who took her in that time. She had never warmed up to the other dogs and the people just did not like her. She was by this time a young adult, sleek, black and gorgeous and looked exactly like flat coat retrievers are supposed to....if my friend had not seen her mom we would not have believed her mom was a golden. Such a loving dog, I could not believe that the people had not liked her. I loved her! So stately and regal and beautiful. Aloof, not like a golden. She never demanded anything. And when you petted her, she would make this soft little moan and hold perfectly still. I guess that is where the family got the name "Samone".
Well, I had nice friendly dogs....perhaps they could warm Samone up, hmmm? Well, no. She hated other dogs. She was the sweetest an most cuddly dog ever and very smart, but she never liked any other dogs. We began looking for an only-dog home for her. But we had also learned Samone had separation anxiety and did not like to be alone. So we needed a home where the person was home a lot AND there were no other dogs.
She could not go to adoption events because she got snarly at the other dogs and internet applications were not doing it for her. But finally (I worked for a vet at the time) a client where I worked was telling me she was looking for a flat coat, did I know of any? I was floored and said I had one, or at least I had a 1/2 flat coat, would she like to meet it? She said it had to be good with goats. I said hmmmmmm.............
I had no goats or experience with them at that time. Neither did Samone. But we took her over there and Samone did great. After a trial, she got adopted! I actually learned how to introduce dogs to goats from that lady.
Later I heard from this person several times as Samone remained a client at that clinic. Samone became enamored with the goats and eventually became a guardian dog! She trained herself. She kept leaping into the pen with the goats so she could be near them. At first her family was worried, until they saw she wanted in there to be with the goats, not hurt them.
And Samone never had separation anxiety again! She had her loving family and her job to do and NO other dogs. She thinks she is a goat!
Since I'd love to have a guardian dog now, I really wish I had kept Samone! But I know that she has had a good life these past years with her family and after all, I'm savingdogs....she would never, never have been the only dog. And the windy road to our house would have been a trial for a carsick dog. But as a guardian dog, she almost never goes anywhere, she is always with her goaties.
Roy is going to decide if it is worth the money and time to rewire the lights or just sell the 
I didn't know because I'd never met his grandmother (she passed several years before DH and I met).
