Hi everyone, I’m Gracie and my foster dad (FD) said that I should tell you a little about myself. I’m not quite sure what to say but he gave me a few suggestions of things that you all might be interested in.

First of all, I just turned 8 years old just before I came to my foster home. I was born and grew up on the farm with a lot of other dogs. I spent my days there having and raising puppies. When my mom and dad said it was time for me to retire, they contacted RAGOM and asked if they could help me find a nice home and family.

Both my foster mom (FM) and FD said they were surprised that I’m not scared of people like many of the retired breeder girls that they’ve met. I really do like people; they don’t scare me at all once I get to meet and sniff them. They found out that I was the runt of my litter and my mama rejected me so I was bottle-fed as a pup. They think that this might be why I’m so comfortable around humans.

I do have to admit that some of the things in my foster home do scare me at first. I still hesitate a bit going through the front door. Sometimes loud noises startle me. There is a big, noisy truck that comes every Monday to collect the garbage and I don’t like that at all! FD says I’m getting better every day though.

I’m quite proud to say that I’m getting much better with the vacuum cleaner. I can’t say that I love that noise and vibration, but now I follow it around, at a distance of course, because I’m kind of curious about why FD wastes so much time and energy on it.

There are so many things here I’ve never experienced before. FM and FD are pretty good at taking things slow and giving me time to get used to new things.

Let me tell you about some of my favorite things. I found out that I really like car rides. So far, I’ve gotten to ride to the vet, to doggie daycare, and sometimes we just ride around to see the countryside. I’ve learned to hop right in and out of the van. Sometimes I like to look out the window at the world rolling by and other times I curl up and take a nap.

Walks are also a fun part of my day. My foster brother Sooner and I head to the door when it’s time for a walk. I sit nicely to have my leash hooked up (I almost always get a treat when I do that). Usually Sooner, FD, and I go out together. We walk up to and then along the road. FD says we walk for about a half-mile at a time (whatever that means).

We do this at least four times a day. I think I could walk a lot farther than that if FD would let me. Cars coming along the road don’t scare me anymore because I know that FD won’t let me get hurt. When we get back home, Sooner and I run into the kitchen where we each get another treat.

Twice a week we do my new absolute favorite thing. Since FM and FD don’t have a fenced yard, they say that they don’t want us dogs to be outside unless we are hooked to a tie-out under their supervision or are on-leash.

But, twice a week, Sooner and I get to go in the van with FD and we all drive to what they call doggie day-care. Is this ever fun! We go into this big building. Sometimes there are five other dogs there and other times there might be fifteen dogs there. We play together as a pack or a couple of packs.

Since I’ve been with other dogs all my life, I’m definitely NOT scared of them! When the weather is good we all go outside to this really BIG yard where we can run and play, roll in the grass, and do whatever we want. We all kennel up once in the morning and once in the afternoon to take our naps and then we get to play some more.

FD comes by in the late afternoon to pick us up and we go home to eat supper. You wouldn’t believe how tired we are when we get home—but it is a “good” tired. One day I went to sleep after our post-supper walk before FD got my leash off!

All in all, I have to say that I’m enjoying my new life here. FM and FD tell me that they are starting to look for the perfect forever family for me. Much as I enjoy things here, I really think that my very own family would be a wonderful thing. If you think that you are the ones for me, please let RAGOM know. I would love to meet you!

Thanks for reading about me! Love, Gracie