About Rockrock

I adopted a��%BD%A0 38 pound��%BD%A0one year old female, named Rockrock, from the Queens ACC. She was on the euth list and her photos showed a sad and scared little black pit mix. It read that she was soft and wiggly when she was brought to the shelter after being found tied up to a pole in the Bronx. Rock must have been a stray as she treats gutters as buffets and eats a lot of leaves. On her own for a while, feral and wild, she is learning manners. During her 7 weeks at the pound she began acting out. She was in a popup crate with most dogs only going out for a short walk once a day. She began, throwing herself at the door to her cage and wailing, so they put her on the euthanasia list. The scabs on her knees, that are healing and becoming scars, are from this trauma I believe. The ACC, in an overcrowding crisis, has stopped taking in dogs and is on a killing spree, so, fearing for her life, I went and got her. She has been decompressing and is sleeping a lot. My vet did a checkup and says that she is healthy. Rock seems to be a medium energy dog so she should be fine living in a city. She is a pocket pit with big expressive eyes and a forehead that crinkles when she thinks. She is bright (bright dogs have the toughest time being incarcerated.) She loves fetch (ball dogs makes exercising your dog easy) and seeks affection, often leaning into me for a pet.��%BD%A0 She is a good watch dog. There are people coming and going into the stairwell right next to our door but she only barks when they come by our door. She has an impressive bark and anyone wanting to do mischief would go to a different place rather than deal with the dog behind that bark. Rock's quirks are that she grunts while she sleeps, picks up and carries leaves and her right ear sometimes stands up while her left ear doesn't. She is playfully mischievous, very cute and easy to fall in love with. Today she play wrestled really hard with a large young male Husky until he ran for cover behind his mom. With the females she has been hard bodied, so she might not like other female dogs. As I am w/o many years left, my younger sister has promised that as long as the dog is dog and cat friendly she will take in my dog in case something happens to me. I must respect my sister's wishes and not possibly put her in a heartbreaking position if my dog is not dog and cat friendly as she will not be able to take the dog into her home. Rock was feral and not house trained.��%BD%A0 I don't have the heart to force her into the crate and lock the door for potty training. She doesn't want to be locked in a crate, and after the crate trauma she has just been through, who can blame her. (As long as I don't close the crate door, she will sleep in it.) I have had the best luck potty training by taking the dog out at least every 4 hours. But, my elevator is not in use until January at the earliest, so getting in and out of my home is logistically complicated, taking time and energy. Still decompressing, Rock pulls. Yesterday I took her out five times, went further and she didn't pull as hard. I believe that the pulling will ease when she is fully decompressed and has an outlet for her puppy energy. (She bites at the buttons on my shirts/sweaters.) She is beginning to relieve herself outside more. Yesterday she went to the front door and whined because she had to defecate. She is a good girl who wants to cooperate - most of the time. She wants to play. with kids but does not yet have good enough manners.

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