Below is her foster mom's update from July 14th 2008. The scared, timid emaciated puppy has vanished and has been replaced by a dominant, confident (most of the time) love of a dog.
"Well, today is July 14th and Mabel is not remotely the same dog we pulled from Savannah/Chatham AC on July 1st. Instead of the sweet, timid, unsure, wiggly and defensive pup that we've had for the first week and a half, she is now a strong, pushy, dominant AW of a dog!
She is still sweet as can be with us, but make no mistake- she wants to be top dog in our house. We finally introduced her to Maggie and Sabrina [our French Bulldog foster] on Saturday since Maggie came down with [kennel cough] anyway, and immediately Mabel started trying to mount and hump her. Maggie never cares but we corrected and redirected her. She and Sabrina have an issue and need to be monitored extremely closely when interacting- I'm not 100% who is starting sh*t, but Mabel makes her displeasure known. This morning Mabel was the one clearly instigating Sabrina and trying to entice her to run, but Sabrina was having none of it and didn't move from in front of the door.
Mabel's tail is always up and wagging and her ears are now always forward and perked, intstead of back and flat like they have been previously. We have confirmation that she is not housebroken (our poor West Elm rug may not survive the river of urine she flooded it with before my eyes yesterday). She now barks when crated and whines when she has to be separated, since Andrew can't always keep a close eye on the dogs during the day and we don't trust her for a minute!
She is always moving and getting into things, like a typical puppy. It seems she knows her name and she is a total lap dog- as in, when I'm on my laptop on the sofa, she jumps up and sits right on my hands. She loves Andrew and they chase each other in the yard; she has a problem jumping up on us (I have three big welts from her claws this morning) but we're correcting when she does it and she seems to oblige for a minute or so.
She goes back tomorrow morning to have her bandage removed and we'll hopefully find out what the recommendation is about surgery. She seems to be over her kennel cough though we're finishing out the meds, and Maggie doesn't have it badly at all so far- just a cough/hack once in a while as opposed to the constant coughing Mabel was doing last week. Right now, Mabel is supposed to head to Chicago on Saturday and that's still the plan as far as I know. I'll work on posting pics of Mabel from this morning so you can enjoy her progress."
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