Meet Penny! – Oh My Canine!

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Meet Penny, this stunning woman:

In the foreground, a white arm with a black watch band reaches forward to stroke the chin of Penny, a white Catahoula leopard dog with a pink and brown freckled nose, one open blue eye, and one closed eye. Her ears hang down along her head and both have injuries on the tips. The background is blurred to obscure the permanent mess of the kitchen shelves behind Penny.

If we’re linked on Instagram, you’ve already briefly met this stunning woman. Nonetheless, I’d want to formally introduce her and share her story with you!

Nonetheless, first, a actuality: I did not rely on to be introducing a canine to you instantly. Really, I deliberate–and nonetheless do plan–to jot down down two posts about pet loss and grief, one explicit to kids shedding a pet and one explicit to a cat shedding a canine biggest pal. These posts will nonetheless come because of I imagine they’re invaluable. And, moreover, I didn’t rely on to undertake a model new canine until the spring.

Why the spring? Successfully, I assumed housetraining inside the winter may be an infinite ache. Moreover, John tore his labrum (shoulder cartilage… I imagine?) and needed to have a fairly vital surgical process the week between Christmas and New Yr’s. I figured on prime of our frequent crazy life, plus his restoration (no driving for him for a month!!!), it wasn’t the correct time for a canine.

And the universe laughed.

And delivered us Penny.

Penny, the Catahoula leopard dog, with a mostly white coat and a smattering of brown spots on her hind end, reclines on a gray poof with a cream, red, and green knit blanket on top.

10 details about Penny:

She had a LONG journey to our dwelling. Confiscated from a hoarding state of affairs in Alabama, she was bumped to an overcrowded shelter. Then, a private rescue picked her (and one amongst her puppies) up, then she was moved to a foster who wasn’t able to take care of her, so she was despatched to a unique rescue and one different foster, after which–lastly–to our family.
On account of her background, she’s a timid and fearful woman. We have a LOT of skill-building to work on alongside together with her!
Penny is bilaterally deaf (deaf in every ears) and unilaterally blind (blind in her correct eye).
She can’t get ample affection. Like, once you stop patting her to take a sip of our espresso, she nuzzles you until you get once more to it. She wishes to climb all the easiest way into your lap or push in opposition to your hip or lean in your shoulder at. all. events.
Penny is afraid of Newt and Ripley and gives them a WIDE berth. Which is good. It will help them perception her sooner, I imagine.
At her first go to to our vet, she was the popular woman inside the place! She soaked up all the attention, and ended up with a mostly-clean bill of nicely being. She has hookworms (blech) and a little bit of particles in her facet the vet thinks is a bb (grrr) nonetheless in some other case she’s in good type.
Sweet Penny doesn’t have the facility to walk from room to room however. Why? No idea! She’s too scared to enter the kitchen the least bit, and she or he fully will not stroll upstairs. We had a HUGE win when she started strolling from the mattress room to the lounge on her private. Nonetheless, she presses up in opposition to the wall and skitters between these rooms. Throughout the meantime, I merely carry her in all places. She’ll get it, and by likelihood I’ve tons of persistence (for animals)! 🙂
After her first week with us, Penny grew to change into assured ample to run throughout the yard, and she or he is now an knowledgeable at zoomies! She has however to play with a toy, though, so we’re slowly serving to her study to canine.
She’s listed as a Catahoula leopard canine–a breed I do know nothing about nonetheless am having enjoyable with finding out! That said, I’m going to DNA check out her. Has anyone completed one simply these days? Is there a hottest mannequin these days? I haven’t completed one since I did the Data Panel with Cooper and Lucas so would love any insights!
She’s principally white with a smattering of brown spots, along with one heart-shaped spot on her hip.

A closeup of the back right hip of Penny, the Catahoula leopard dog. Her coat is mostly white except a scattering of brown spots across her back end. This closeup shows one large heart-shaped spot in the middle of several brown splotches.

As likelihood is you may already know, our family is finding out ASL already–our daughter, Astrid, was born hard-of-hearing and attends a sign-immersive preschool program at our state’s Deaf faculty, so we already have a steady background. That said, this is usually a full new downside for me as a lifelong clicker coach! I’ve to assemble new skills as I help Penny alongside! I acquired an vital referral for a neighborhood coach to work with, and I’m following these motion pictures on YouTube.

I’ll have somewhat extra to share, in spite of everything, as we get to know Penny and go on this new journey collectively. I’ve always written about issues related to what I’m going via with my very personal canines. That’s what started this weblog and the best way I plan to proceed. So, whereas I lined treatment canine work with Emmett, reactive canine teaching with Lucas and Cooper, pit bull advocacy, and quite a bit further explicit to them, with pretty Penny, I’ve quite a bit further to review and share. Some issues off the best of my head that I’ll be defending: the double merle gene that causes these canines to be deaf or blind, teaching a deaf canine, teaching a partially-sighted canine, her breed knowledge, and further.

What would YOU want to study Penny or what frequent canine issues would you need to speak about in 2024? I’d prefer to know what you’re fascinated by and what you’d prefer to debate!

Throughout the meantime, let’s be a part of on Instagram! I’m sharing gobs and gobs of Penny pics there and might chronicle her journey further usually in that home!