The Family Dogs - Sadi & Mocha

Just for background information, I wanted to add one post about our family dogs, Sadi and Mocha.  These are not foster puppies, but just our regular family dogs who have lived here all their lives, and will live here forever.  I'm not the only foster Mom in the house, Mocha is a foster mom too, and Sadi is a foster-sister.  They do really well with the fostering, and I couldn't do it without them.

Mocha is a mix of some sort .... Some people call her a Border Collie Mix, some call her a Shepard Mix, and she has the coloring of a Rottweiler, but much longer hair and she's not as big as a Rottie.  She's the most mild mannered doggie the whole world, and gets along with everyone.  She's ten years old now, and has been with us since she was six weeks old.  We got her from the Humane Society of St. Louis, MO when she was a puppy.  Even as a puppy she was mild mannered, stoic and fairly calm.  I had a one year old little boy back then and she was great with him.  They grew up together.  Nowadays, she's a dog that refuses to work for food - will not fetch, doesn't enjoy walks, and really acts very cat like in her demeanor.  She wants attention constantly, but is not about to stoop to the level of doing some sort of trick in order to get your attention.  That sort of thing is just above her.  She's very prissy, very frilly and girly.  Doesn't like to get wet, or dirty - ever, and is quite picky about treats, table scraps, and everything and anything else.  Still though, she's the sweetest temperment.  Through my description she sounds kind of mean, but she is SO far from it.  She's just .... well, moody.  Last year she had a very large lump on her side that we had surgically removed, and we're very hopeful that it wasn't a malignant tumor.  It was a tumor of some osrt, but we didn't want to know what kind... because I can't imagine putting her through chemotherapy, so instead we had the tumor removed and now she's fully recovered and very happy again.  She's very motherly with the foster puppies that come through here too.  She cuddles with them when it's nap time, and checks on them when they whine or cry.  But - she does NOT play.  When the pups are being rambunvious and crazy, Mocha finds somewhere else to hang up and gets the heck away from them.  She's not about to chase them or rough-house in any way.  She tells them very clearly that she's not into that and then she goes away.... but come nap time, she's right there with them making sure they are warm, and safe goes right inot Mommy-mode.  She's a great dog, and we can't imagine life without her.  She has become a huge part of our hearts and our family.  We love her very much.

Then there's Sadi.... our four year old Black Lab Mix.  We got her from the Animal Protecive Association in St. Louis when she was eight weeks old.  I've taken in a lot of puppies in my lifetime, and I thought that I knew puppies - every kind, every age, and I could handle anything ... and then came Sadi.  I thought that puppy would be the death of me.  I later found out that lab puppies are all pretty insane, and that they stay puppies for a very long time.  For two years that puppy was a complete terror.  She almost destroyed everything in my entire home.  She redecorated our bathroom, removed some drywall in the hallway, ate a couch, left me completely shoe-less... among many other things.  She was a fun one that's for sure, and honestly - still is.  By the time we'd gotten Sadi, I'd quit work and way a stay home Mom, so Sadi grew very used to the fact that I was ALWAYS home.  This created a problem when it came time for me to even walk to the end of the driveway to put the kids on the school bus, or get the mail.  Sadi would back up as far as possible from our front bay window, run as fast as she could towards it, and throw herself against the window, over and over again whenever I was out front and she wasn't with me.  I'm still surprised that she never broke that window.  Lord knows she tried!  I've had a lot of dogs that I've loved, but I've never been as close to a dog as I am with Sadi.  She's next to me on the couch 24-7, sleeps with me, thinks that she's my husband.  We're very attached to each other.  She's still very much a puppy, and very much a Lab.  She'll retrieve anything, anytime, and she loves - LOVES - to swim.  We have a baby pool in the back yard just for her, and for any puppies that are interested in swimming.  Sadi loves to lie in the pool, belly up and roll around to get wet.  Most of us she loves us though - kids included, and she's the best dog ever.  I keep saying that she better be the first dog ever to live fifty years because I don't know what I'll ever do if she has to leave me.  We love her very much.

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