Thanks Lucky for the advice and link. We were one of the lucky ones when we got Buddy from a resuce group. Only now do we realize that we should have done a lot more investigation into this "rescue". Fortunately, with time and love, things have worked out for us,
![Smilie](http://www.pets.ca/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif)
but those first couple of months .... wow,
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they were tough. This poor dog was so freaked out. Lord knows what he had been thorugh. In the end though (six months later), we feel very blessed.
I read a number of posts who had horrible experiences with the same rescue that Buddy came from.
![Sick](http://www.pets.ca/forum/images/smilies/sick.gif)
I wish those kinds of places could somehow be better controlled from developing.