Shadow, who I will start calling Bailey in her updates, is doing great. She had a busy holiday season and is now heading into the new year looking for her furever home.

The Proin that Bailey gets for her incontinence is working like a charm. No accidents! She gets one tablet twice a day. We give it to her when we feed her in the morning and at night. Wrap it in some cheese and she gobbles it down.

When Bailey gets fed we learned she doesn't like her tags hitting the bowl. I tried to pull to collar around so the tags are behind her ears but we found it is easier to take her collar off and then put it back on after she is done eating. We also gave her a low cereal bowl to eat out of and that has helped too.

Bailey really loves being outside. It doesn't matter if it's raining, snowing, sleeting or sunny. I think she may have some shepherd or husky in her. Her coat is shorter but it has a very dense undercoat. We gave her a bath a couple of weeks ago and I was able to brush quite a bit of hair out.

One funny thing we discovered about Bailey is that she doesn't like walking on smooth floors. We have a fair amount of carpet in our house but our kitchen and dining room are laminate floors. We do have quite a few rugs and mats down since we have older dogs in the house and don't want them to slip. One day I was sitting at the kitchen table and Bailey was laying not far from me. She started with a little growl. Then she did it again. I couldn't figure out what she was doing. Then she let out a "woof". I finally figured out that the problem - she wanted to get up but she wasn't laying on a rug. I helped her up and got her to a rug. She starts scrambling and her feet go out all directions. I think she scares herself.

Another funny floor story - We let our dogs out at night through our garage when the weather is bad. We have a piece of carpet down right as you go out the house door. Bailey would stand on the carpet until I got the service door open to the outside and then she would run across the concrete as fast as she could to the outside. Foster Dad put some big pieces of cardboard down for her so that she could walk rather than run to the door. What a funny, silly girl!

Bailey might be meeting a family in the next couple of weeks. Let's keep our paws crossed that she will start out in 2017 with a furever home!