Stairs and floors

I never realised that so many smells, noises and movement could possibly exist. The prospect of stepping from the now still vehicle into all of this 'newness' was somewhat daunting. I made my uncertainty towards getting out quite clear and after a few minutes of digging my nails into the seats and a bit of wriggling, some arms wrapped around me and placed me on the ground.

Apparently the humans only got word that they had passed the adoption process late the night before, which meant that they still had to buy a few things for me. Charming. Talk about feeling wanted...you would have thought they would have been so excited at being awarded me, that everything would be in place...

Anyway. I was left with the female as the male departed to go shopping. She spoke gently to me as I sat on the ground, looking around. To be honest, I barely took notice of her, there was so much going on around me. I had no idea where I was, let alone where an escape route could possibly be. When I look back at all I am about to tell you, it's a little embarrassing, but you have to remember that all I knew up until this point were the confines of a cage and lately, an introduction into being 'walked' which of course was against my will.

We began to make slow progress..to somewhere..I actually really needed to pee, so I decided not to be as 'wilful' or 'difficult' as advertised. Before reaching a suitable pee spot, I encountered two new things. 'Stairs/steps' and 'grassy hills' There was no way around either, so one had to be encountered. I took the hill. Wasn't so bad, not as freaky as the steps anyway. I mean, what are they all about?! Dangerous looking things. Not for me. No ta.

Feeling quite chuffed at myself for having negotiated the hill and also at the praise I received, I selected a pee spot. Ahhh... :)

So, pee-pee completed and the female turns back in the direction we had already come? Great. It took ALL that time to actually get here, now we are going back? No thanks.This time I really meant it. No amount of coaxing would make me move...infact the only thing that actually did make me move from where I was, was the sound of a 'motorbike' screaming past... it was somewhere shortly after that point, in-between my screams of fear and frantic wriggling to escape (not actually sure where I was planning to go to but hey-ho) that the female lifted me into her arms in a rather undignified mass of sprawled legs and upsidedownness and we began heading back from where we came.

It felt nice in her arms, she kissed my nose and smiled at me, called me a 'daftie'. Some humans walked past and laughed at us, she smiled and laughed back. It felt good.

So, after a short while of viewing the world from a new angle, we entered a building. No big deal, I had been in a couple before. This one had lots of these stair things, so I was pretty glad when we avoided them and went in another direction. We entered a really small room. I didn't know rooms could move, or make noise. But this one could. Seriously? Me no likey. Still, I was still pretty safe in the arms of the human, so I let it go.

A very short time later, we left the moving room to be now outside another door. The female placed me on the floor, telling me that it was very important that I walked in here on my own.
She opened the door and walked in, turned around and motioned for me to follow. Well, I am guessing that you know my reaction to such an invitation. Nope, no thanks. I don't think so.
It smelled so different, it was warm - not so bad I guess, but what was with the shiny stuff on the floor? No way was I stepping on that.

The female sat down on the floor, laying a little trail of treats to entice me inside. It is amazing just how far one can stretch to reach and eat said treats, without actually moving one's legs. A handy trick for the future methinks.

I have no idea how much time had passed, but it was a lot of yummy treats worth and I still wouldn't move. The female human tried her best, but most of the time the noises she deemed 'encouraging' actually just scared me. I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for her, so after a while, I placed a paw inside the new place. I removed it quickly, but every time I moved forward, I got lots of cuddles and praise. This I actually liked more than the treats.

After even more time elapsed, I decided to just go for it, all four paws inside....just for a second though. This resulted in squeals of delight from the female. So I did it a few more times. Interestingly, the shiny floors didn't attack me so perhaps it was not so bad.

I stepped in, and stayed inside. The door closed behind me, leash removed, cuddles provided - then I was left alone to explore.


Here is a picture of me checking the floor for hidden monsters, you never know....

 And another, I don't look very happy in photos yet....

The new Humans

So, I had moved into this new place. Everybody around me had a similar background - some of us dealt with our issues a little differently. I was labelled 'difficult' and 'wilful'. There was a very nice human who saw to me every day, she put a collar around my neck and introduced me to a leash. Lets be frank here. Attaching me to a human by a leash; when surrounded by so much potential danger is really not a good idea - I didn't want to have to walk past other dogs, I didn't want anyone behind me, I actually didn't want to be exposed to so much space... Nope, I would disagree with the labels attached to me and argue the fact that I was actually being very sensible - there really is far too much danger out there.

After a short period of time to my arrival at this new place, my human took me out of the kennels, yes against my will...but there you go. Not long after, vehicles arrived with two groups of humans. Their arrival sparked a huge commotion in the kennels - everyone began barking excitedly. Anyway, one group headed over to a kennel mate and her human and one group began to approached me. Not too happy about that I can tell you. What made matters worse was the fact my nice human handed over my leash and backed away....seriously?
Three new humans attempted to take me for a walk in the woods. I really hated going in there, we had to pass the big dog's exercise area, they would charge the fence barking and growling...I thwarted the humans' attempts as best as possible, despite the fact they had handfuls of yummy treats which they used to bribe each and every step I took. Wilful and difficult huh? Yep I guess I can play that part.
Well things seemed to getting worse, when we got back to the kennels and after a while, my handler led me to one of the vehicles. Not good. I remember being put into a cage inside one of these things, the heat, the smell, the movement and noise. Nope. I don't think so. The humans had other ideas about that and after a short battle, I was placed into the vehicle.
Surprisingly, there was no cage. A female human sat next to me whilst two males sat in front. Regardless of the fact that there was no cage...well actually, the heat and smell weren't too bad either...this thing still moved. So after a short while I threw up. Oddly, I sensed no anger to this having happened,  if anything, the humans just seemed concerned...so I threw up again - just to see...



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First Day

So, here we are with my little tale. It has taken a few months for me to settle and I have been rather ill, so it may take me a while to get up to date with everything.

My life began in Hungary, Europe. I only knew my Mummy for a matter of days before I was taken away from her. I never saw her, nor my brothers and sisters again.

What exactly happened in the first few months of my life is a little unclear, but it resulted in me being left at a place known as a killing centre.

Here I am in my cage. I am next to the dog standing up at the front, to your right. It wasn't very nice, we didn't get much to eat and then it was only the strongest pups that actually ate what we were given. It was crowded, dirty and water was scarce.

Life was pretty much non existent. We waited until it was our time for the humans to come and take us to die. That was all.

One day, a human came in - this one was unlike the humans we saw every day. She walked from cage to cage looking in at everybody. When she got to our cage, she spent a lot of time looking at us all. You never know what is going to happen when a human stands there, we were all a little more nervous than usual.

Anyway. This human took me and some of the others away. It was scary. We were placed into an even smaller cage. This cage made a lot of noise and moved. I felt really ill and threw up. The cage continued to move for what seemed like an eternity. When it did stop, we could hear dogs barking, the barking was different to what we were used to, there seemed to be less fear here but still the usual amount of confusion and stress.
We were taken out of the cage and carried into a room where another human poked and prodded us, putting things in our mouths and sticking sharp things in our necks. The good thing about coming from where we did is that the sharp thing never hurt - we knew real pain.
We were placed into a cage, just a few of us. There were things to lie on! Water too! There was also food in a bowl, but I left that. I knew it couldn't be for me but I watched the others eat it, that was kind of fun!


Things were changing :)