There goes Deigo!

We have a new foster dog named Diego and he doesn't like me so much, unless I'm laying down in bed in which case he'll try to lay on top of me. Diego has had a pretty rough start to his life. He's about 5-8 months old and spent the last couple of months in a prison shelter in Dallas. We don't know much about him before that since he was a stray pup. He's since gotten neutered and a nice little gash on his side from another dog that bit him during a temporary foster. He's a bit nervous, for good reason.

Diego is more like to befriend you if you are a girl, under the age of 6, and short. Since I don't fall into that category Diego runs as far away from me as possible. He lets the girls pet him and he actually seems to be interested in them (or at least not terrified). But basically Diego is afraid of his own shadow and startles very easily.

We're hoping that as his latest trauma we'll be able to find the puppy in him (which shows on occasion when he plays by himself in the backyard). So we'll need some good dog whispering skills for that (whatever that might be).

Diego is also a clean slate: he can't do anything a normal dog can do except eat and poop; and he does that in the house very well. However, because he's a very sweet and very attentive dog I have hope that he'll be very easy to train once he's recovered from his wounds and has adjusted to a more stable life.

You can see from the pictures just how skinny he is. He kind of looks like a funny old-man dog. Also, he obviously has some more growing to do because his feet and head are disproportionately huge compared to his body (despite his low body weight). I think he'll be a pretty good-looking dog, but hunting is something he'll probably never do.