Day 96 - ADOPTED!

Today, Lana was adopted - by us, of course. We thought we had to act now since she looked all gorgeous on the new Petfinder photo.
We have just become so used to her and she's become part of the family.

She has found new confidence and is now even following me up the main staircase. She still won't go downstairs, but I'm positive that one day she'll just get up and do it.

So here the story ends......
Hey, at least it's a happy ending!

Day 94 - Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Last Thursday we got Lana groomed. Since we don't know anything about groomers, but heard from our neighbors who not to go to, we asked our vet. She said they had a groomer come up from Ponca City once or twice a month, that she was one of the best in the area, and loved poodles. Bingo! She was due to do her magic in 2 weeks and although I would have liked to have Lana groomed immediately, we decided to wait.

When I delivered Lana to the vet's office the groomer hadn't arrived yet. The vet assistant asked me what I wanted to have done, but all I could think of was: "Just make her beautiful!"

In the afternoon, Tom picked her up and when he got her out of the car I couldn't believe my eyes! I didn't think it was the same dog, because indeed, she was beautiful.

The groomer went all out, even painted her toenails pink. I've always frowned on people putting little ribbons on their dogs and painting their nails, but I'll be darned - it doesn't hurt the dog and it made her look so pretty.

As long as we don't treat them as fashion accessories I guess it's o.k.

We totally think Lana noticed a change, because she carried herself much differently - just pranced around with her head held high.

But see for yourself:

We are now seriously thinking about adopting her. She's still not o.k. with the cats, but has gotten much better. We think there's hope that in another few months she'll be able to fully ignore them.

The shelter took a new picture of her and posted it on Petfinder.com so we'll see what happens.