Mountain Out

So I was possibly going to adopt a new dog this weekend. His name is Mountain, he's an 85-lb great dane lab mix, black with yellow eyes and really handsome. Unfortunately, he got into a tussle with both my cat and my dog over the weekend. The cat's fine, just spent a few days completely freaked out, but Shenzi...Shenzi has two small puncture wounds on her left foreleg and is limping. I feel certain she's being melodramatic about the limp, but it's impossible to tell how much is real and how much is faking for sympathy. The wounds weren't deep enough to worry terribly much about, as far as I can tell at least. I'm going to take another look tonight and consider taking her in tomorrow.

So Mountain is not going to work out. And it isn't just his attitude toward my pets. The people who were caring for him said he occasionally gets a little bit of a limp on his back right, but one of them took him on long runs (3-4 miles) and he wouldn't have any trouble. However, Shenzi plays rough and Mountain hasn't put full weight on that leg all weekend. All in all, I think it's better for both Mountain and us for him to find a different home.

Oh well. They can't all be winners. I'm sure more dogs will come along needing homes.