This very sweet little girl came to us from a shelter in Georgia. Jasmine was picked up as a stray and was in pretty sad shape. She is heartworm positive and needs entropion surgery to fix her severly neglected eyes. We're sure she has some permanent damage and doesn't have good vision. But little Jazzy doesn't care. She is very playful and friendly with people and loves other dogs - both male and female.
We will begin Jasmine's heartworm treatment soon so she will not be available for adoption until mid-June.
Jazzy is about a year old. She's a black brushcoat with a wonderful personality. She's crate trained and house trained.
4/10/07: Update from Jazzy's foster mom . . .
I put Jasmine in the back 1/2 of the house last night and had Moose and Taz with me. Cyril and Sniff go to bed, but Jasmine stands at the gate and just barks, it breaks my heart, but I give her one squirt, which is actually a mist, and I never hear another word. She falls into a deep sleep right there at the gate in the hall. When I get ready to go to bed, she wakes up so excited to see me. She slept in the bedroom with me for the first time last night. I usually put her in her bedroom. She slept right next to my legs. Sniffles would not let her get up by my pillow, that is ONLY for Sniffles.
Jasmine plays a game, I think it is called Catch me if You Can. While I am busy in the kitchen, she runs up to me, does a few Thumper jumps, then puts those ears to the side and runs like hell into the living room. Then here she comes again, over and over. When I act like I am going toward her, she turns around, those ears go back, and she runs like hell...We do this over and over. She is hilarious!
4/16/07: Not good news about Jazzy's eyes. She is totally blind. Both corneas are ruptured. But I'm tellling you, you would not know she's blind. She compensates so well. She already navigates her way around our house and she's only been here since Friday. She is very smart and very, very playful. She wears Molly out during their playtimes.
I realize it's going to take a special person to adopt Jazzy, but I know you're out there!!
7/22/07: We placed Jasmine in a home last Saturday, but it didn't work out. The male pei in the home didn't understand that when Jazzy barked in his face that she wanted to play, so he and Jazzy had two fairly significant scuffles. So Jazzy is back with us. But she's ready for a new home as soon as we find the perfect one!
8/12/07: Today is a great day. Little Jasmine is on her way to her new home in Ball Ground GA. She'll have 3 playmates and a wonderful, understanding mom and dad. Thanks, Regina and Gary, for wanting to give Jazzy the opportunity for a great new life.
UPDATE 8/13/07: Hey Cindy,
So far everything has gone perfectly. Our youngest daughter came over to meet the newest addition and it ended up being a very late night! She is in love and so is Jasmine but Gary is still Jasmine's biggest buddy.
Her meeting with the other dogs was uneventful, thank goodness. We introduced them one at a time..a lot of sniffing, a few licks and then they just stood back and watched her. I think that they can sense that she is different. It's amazing but they move near her very slowly, stop and let her find them. All 3 approach her the same way. I've never seen them behave like that before and they have been introduced to many other dogs.
Jasmine is incredible. I know you will be happy to here that she has already mastered the deck steps. We showed her 3 times where they were and on her fourth trip she trotted across the deck, stopped when she was about a foot from the steps, put out her paw and tapped the deck, inched forward, tapped, inched...until she found them! She then used that same paw to find the edge of each step as she crawled down them. As you can imagine "down" is slow but she practically flies coming up.
Right now she is busy exploring the house. She moves slowly through a room until she has imprinted the obstacles and once she knows where they are, her pace picks up and she can move through that room with confidence. So far she has learned the living room, kitchen, sun room and of course the deck. As I write this she is busy checking out my bedroom. She learned her way around the sun room last night so Gary slept with her there so that she would be in a familiar room. He took the couch and she selected the biggest, fluffiest dog bed (there are 2 in the room) for herself.
So far Jasmine is making herself at home. She doesn't act nervous or anxious when the other dogs are near so I think she doesn't feel threatened by their presence.
I'll send another update in a few days but in th
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