every one of the dogs we have ever had have rescue dogs the current pup is a female and we think mostly a foxhound with a bit of husky in her the idiot that owns the mother lets her run free and she has had 3 litters so far most of the pups end up in the pound we have been able to find homes for some of them but a lot are in the pound.
katie is one of the ones my wife just couldn't say no to, she has blue eyes sadly I think the owner had mistreated her since she was scared of her own shadow at first and even now has a hard time looking me or my wife in the eye even now she is real skittish but is coming around.
currently we have 3 rescues, lost another one unexpectedly last fall to cancer we found her years ago wandering down the high way and whoever had her had really abused her, it took a LONG time before she would trust either one of us she was a very special dog in the end and I miss her as much now as I did when she died.
all said and told we have been able to give a home to more than 20 dogs over the years and have enjoyed each and every one of them, and found good homes to countless more.
The are able to run outside we have an invisible fence and dog door for them give them their shots other than rabies ourselves and feed them well.
the best part is in the past a few have went on to become service dogs.
Watching how Katie is doing I am going to talk to the sheriffs office and see if she is a candidate as a drug dog she has a sniffer that can find anything, she is showing a lot of smarts more and more each week she is about 6 months old and I know they want them a year old to start training her biggest problem is the skittishness and hopefully she will get that out of her system.