SHAKA: AKA HONEYBEE

A few weeks ago, I was visiting a friend near Santa Cruz and we were playing with our dogs when this gorgeous brindle pittie came up to us. She was sweet as can be and seemed to be looking for somewhere to go or someone to be with. We walked her and than drove around the neighborhood looking for her owners, but none were to be found. So I filed a found dog report at the shelter and on Craigslist. But to be honest, I had little hope that she would looked for. She wasn't fixed, her coat was dry and bleached out, she was covered in cuts and scabs and she wasn't fixed. So...of course I brought her home with us!

Here she is at my friend's house:

First of all, she was a maniac in the car which I am not used to! My dogs act like they are in a coma when they are in the car and she was panting like crazy, pacing back and forth and sticking her head way out the window. Luckily, by the second car ride she figured it out and laid on the floor like my dogs (maybe they showed her). Second, I had no idea how she would be with the cats and had to consider Gina being so young. So when we first arrived home I wanted to have her on leash and do a proper intro, but Marty jumped right in the car (he likes to greet the dogs when we get home), jumped in the back and started rubbing up against her and purring. I kept waiting for the ball to drop and for her to notice him, but she never seemed to care! I carefully fed her alone that night just to make sure she wouldn't recourse guard, but she really couldn't care less and so she came in to settle down for the night.

Does she look at home?