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[quote=Anonymous]Our rescue dog, whom we love and adore because he is the best dog in the world! :) came from a GA shelter, whom we adopted from a picture the shelter had posted.  A friend periodically sends out emails about dogs in need, and this particular email had a list of dogs on the euth list, so unbeknownst to my DH, I went through the list dogs of with a shelter volunteer and finally decided on a large mixed hound.  She promised this dog would make a great family dog and had a good temperment with other dogs and cats. He was young and I had heard wonderful things about hounds, so I paid his neuter and transport fees through Paypal, and then had tell my DH.

So, my DH picked him from transport of Route 50 and promptly called me to say that this dog wasn't the beagle I had told him we were getting.  I sort of lied about his size. The second our sweet boy came home, we all fell madly in love  - this was 4 years ago.  But this sweet boy chewed 4 dining room rugs to shreds, ate furniture legs, dug under fences, chewed up an expensive pair of sunglasses and got on my furniture.  For the chewing, we gave him chew bones and watched that he didn't go for the furniture.  He was approximately a year old when we brought him home, and by 2. the endless chewing was gone.  He and I go on a 4 mile walk nearly every day, so he's fairly relaxed the rest of the day.  Walking is key to happy and content dog!  All the puppy behavior is gone, and so is the digging.  Seems the long daily walk really calmed him.  He was filthy dirty when we adopted him and freaked the first couple of baths we gave him, so we had to take him to our vet to be bathed.  He now jumps into the tub to be bathed.

He's absolutely wonderful with children and with all the children my son has over to our house - even attends all the sleepovers and games in the yard.  OP - you sound very dedicated to make this work, so I'm sure it will :)  We were consistent with everything, including his baths.  He's a dream dog, and though we didn't meet him before we brought him home, we couldn't have asked for a better dog for our family and children.  He knows he's loved and he knows what we expect from him.  The dog understands English, too.  We can't imagine him not being with us.

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