Project Izabella!

We are suckers, Doug and I. If someone asks for help, we'll most likely give it to them. We don't do the handout thing, we are a little more thoughtful about where we put our good works. I wish we had given a little more thought about our latest help project: IZABELLA!

Izabella really is a sweet dog and she could be a lot easier to love if she didn't have such bad manners. If we are eating food in the living room and if we're not careful, she'll attack our food like a great white shark eating a seal. I swear I've seen her eyes roll in the back of her head! Izabella is very gassy! She had not been housebroken, only using wee wee pads. I've been trying to get her potty trained but there's only so much I can do in such a short amount of time. She's not been socialized properly so she plays rough with us and with our other dogs, Max and Penny. She has been learning to defer to Max and Penny around meal times but when it comes to snack time, look out! Here comes the Great White Shark!

On the other hand, Izabella is a very good walker and does love to play--she is just over 1 years old, a puppy still in my eyes. She is very affectionate and is a good cuddler. She hardly barks which is great and she loves sleeping in her kennel--fantastic! She even does this cute stretchy thing with her short little legs when she first comes out of her kennel.

If Izabella were 100% ours, I could really love her. But she goes back to her family in a few weeks so I can't love her. Doug agreed to help out a young family when they learned they had to leave Japan suddenly and not take their dog with them. Doug said he would find a way to bring Izabella back to them. So we will. It's been over a month but it seems longer. We leave Japan for a trip back to the States in a few weeks and the days loom over me. I will miss Isabella and I will pray for her happiness.