Today DUSHI’s adopter celebrates 1 month from her arrival in their home
We have seen many stories in 6 years of experience in Ringo Land shelter for stray cats and dogs, but indeed Dushi's story has developed into a beautiful saga.
Dushi was brought from Cornetu kill shelter in an operation in which 53 dogs were rescued from euthanasia. We were lucky enough to have a generous group of sponsors that wanted to bring dogs to Ringo Land so that they could be rehabilitated medically and behaviourally and later placed into adoption.
Among all these, one story does stand out: Dushi was seen in the shelter and Femke Weijers knew from the first second that she would adopt the sweet scared dog, retreated in a corner.
She was brought to Ringo Land, she entered our rehabilitation programme, her progress was consistent, but her true blooming into the wonderful dog that she is today began the very day she reached her adopter.
From the very second day in Femke’s house, she seems to have reverted to a life she had once had – with loving and protecting older siblings, with loving, protecting and caring owners, with the freedom to run and explore, with a “crazy” joy for life as her adopter says.
Her progress has been tremendous with an almost instantaneous opening after arrival in her new home. All our experience with so many rescues and rehabilitation stories has made us grown trustful into a positive energy that dogs feel when they arrive at their adopters' homes and which helps them bloom to their full potential. It was Femke’s positive energy and persistence that helped her achieve Dushi's direct adoption with all the meanderings/obstacles of bureaucracy and now she can say: "It was all worth it!" Her positive energy engaged into this adoption is now turned back to her through the positive energy that Dushi pours onto all the family. We can only be grateful to Femke for having trusted Ringo Land team unconditionally with all the steps of her rescue, rehabilitation, reintegration!
Two days after her arrival, her adopter was writing to us: “Thank you to all the wonderful people in Ringo Land, you saved Dushi, if you hadn't had a place, and Dushi had nowhere to go, things probably would have turned out differently. But, fortunately you had room for her, and a lot of experience with scared dogs, because she was so scared, but I never doubted Dushi for a day, despite videos of her being really scared... I also couldn't have imagined that she would change so quickly here, but we are not there yet, we still have a way to go, but I am very grateful that she is in our lives, we are so grateful to you for all the work with Dushi and all the other dogs, and also for your trust in us.”
The adopter has since documented every day of her beginnings in her new home: the victory of the first “happy tail”, Dushi being brave around her siblings, Dushi’s first contact with adopter, wonderful small, daily victories which would pave the way to her future life.
Testimony from the adopter: “Dushi is doing really very well, she is so sweet... she really likes attention, she likes to cuddle and she is a bit crazy. If I have to get something and she doesn't see me for 1 minute, she almost jumps over me with joy when she sees me again. She is becoming a bit naughty, but we encourage that a bit so that she becomes a bit tougher. She loves the other dogs, they help her a lot, and especially Mira – she plays with her all day long… We are really very happy with her and every day she makes progress and shows us new things... I think we have made her very happy, and when I see her running around so happily on our land, I can only be very happy.”
Dushi is today the family’s little fox. The adopter records in her diary her daily shedding of a new layer of fear. She will keep us posted and, in turn, we will continue documenting Dushi’s saga.
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