First off, Ms. Nilla is a flat-out wonderful dog. She has solved her housebreaking issues, and has proven herself non destructive, polite, sweet, loving, and relatively quiet. The min pin in the yard kitty corner to ours can get her going, but then I think that min pin has a potty mouth.
Nilla loves to play ball, and she will politely give you the ball back. She pulls a bit on leash, but settles down pretty fast. She is quite good with others in the dog park. At first she stuck close to me; the Chamblee dog park covers over an acre, and has a lot of other dogs in it. Once we did a circuit of it, slowly, as I have come down with another nasty cold, Nilla started to play. The only spat I saw her in was with Maddie, a friend’s Golden. Maddie is very alpha and dislikes other alpha bitches, and is also under a bit of stress right now. I am happy to say that Nilla didn’t start anything. In fact, in the pics below you can see her in several dog scrums, happily sniffing. Check out Nilla and the teacup Yorkie!
Yesterday I took Nilla to our dog-friendly Ace Hardware, and to Pet Supermarket. In both places she behaved like an angel, and she approved thoroughly of the Girl Scouts who were selling cookies. She especially liked it that tweeny girls thought she was BEAUTIFUL and wanted to pet her instead of selling cookies. BTW, I dropped her leash by accident, and still she came right back when called. She did the same in the dog park, too.
Look at her leap!
No, Nilla doesn’t like people at all ….
Nilla with the teacup Yorkie, Romeo. That was Romeo’s Hooman that Nilla was loving on earlier.
Pack play!
When we came home, I took cold meds and went right to sleep, and Nilla settled by my bed. After a while, i lay down on the couch and slept some more, waking up to find Nilla’s head nestled on my shoulder under my chin, and Justin lying on my feet. Speaking of Mr. Justin Wigglebutt, he had fun at the dog park, too. You can see him in several of the pack pictures above, but this series was special. He wasn’t eating up the attention or going goofy with pleasure, no sir, not Justin!
Hi! I’m the person that pulled Nilla from the Decatur Shelter, it’s so great to see these pictures of her. She is an absolute dream of a dog and we loved her for the week that she was here…she was amazing with our dogs and was allowed free range of the house while we were at work every day with no problems. She only had a couple of “accidents” here with her housebreaking…and they were in the first day or two that she was here. Thank you so much for taking her in…I believe you also fostered another dog we pulled from the Decatur Shelter last year, Shep/Champ…he was a totally sweet boy too!!!!
Heya,
Yes, I remember Shep *very* well. He was a total love! If you scroll down or do a search, you will not only see a link to a video of Nilla in action, but you’ll see pictures of Shep, and Shep with his new family. It’s great to “meet” you, btw! Thank you for saving these wonderful dogs.