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Reading your travails with a foster dog, I feel so lucky to have been able to adopt our Max. He has been almost the perfect dog. I say almost because he did chew the edge of a (formerly) valuable oriental rug the first night we had him. And he did try to rip the skirt off my couch the 2nd week we had him. And he destroyed almost every toy we ever gave him -- starting with the labels. He HATES labels which I soon realized that is what he was going after on the rug and on the skirt of the couch.

But, he never barks, he learns quickly, he never whines. Now that his allergies have been treated and are under control, he is simly perfect. He did chase a turkey away this morning, but I can forgive that. He's just a love.

Max Guarding the Garden

Our current foster dog, Nemo, is a prize. He picked up the potty training extremely quickly and is very good about asking out. He freely and willingly goes into the crate at night when we tell him to crate, and he doesn’t bark at all until he wakes up at about 6:00 am and needs to go outside to pee. He barks a couple of times to let us know he needs to go out and then waits for us to come get him. His only behavioral “fault” is that he wants to chew on every sock, shoe, towel, or pillow that he finds, so we have to redirect him to the right toys, but even that is pretty easy. He will be having surgery in a couple of weeks to have the bad front leg removed. I am confident that once he gets used to being free of the pain that he has in that leg and gets proficient at navigating around on three legs, he is going to be extremely playful and fun (he already is, but he will be moreso when he doesn’t have to deal with his deficient leg) and will be adopted very quickly.

they are not perfect, but i love them both : )

SG i just rediscovered photobucket, i can upload your oliver pic and post if you want me to>?