Try, Try and Try...You'll Succeed at Last!

Hi, Friends, it’s me Laz and today I have happy news to share. I LIKE my foster daddy!! It has been a long, hard road for me to get to this point but it has finally happened. I have turned the corner from fear to trust!!

Mommy says my life is a play list of Jimmy Cliff songs so for this episode she has been singing: “Try, try and try…you’ll succeed at last” (I don’t know either, google it). My daddy has never been anything but loving, supportive and caring towards me even when I growled at him, skittered away from him, or barked at him. He never gave up on me – he did all kinds of crazy things mommy asked of him to get me to trust him. He hand fed me, took me out to potty, greeted me first thing in the morning, gave me tasty treats when he came at night, practiced my skills with me, was mommy’s shadow when she moved around, let mommy make a big deal over him when he came home at night all so I could see he was a good guy. You see, he loves me and wants me to succeed, wants me to be free from the demons of my past. (my previous owner was not nice to me and I was a little scared of men)

So many days he watched as I cuddled and smooched with mommy, looked at mommy with adoring eyes, wagged my tail wildly at her and jumped with glee when she came home. He often said how much he missed a dog loving him like this and this made mommy so sad, she knew how much love I have to give if only I could find the courage to trust my daddy. Mommy and daddy’s last doggy died in November, he was 13 and had an undetected internal mass that ruptured. His name was Patch and he was the last doggy that loved daddy this way and daddy has missed the love of a dog very much.

But he NEVER gave up on me!! (Try, try and try, you’ll succeed at last) He loved me thru all the issues I had to work out and I am working them out quite nicely! I surprise mom and dad every day with my amazing progress. They are so very proud of me, it’s nice to have someone be proud of me!

So, just last week I started going up to daddy and giving him kisses!! And then one day I started to play with him!! And then one day I walked right passed mommy and went to daddy for affection! That has never happened before – I chose dad over mom! WOW WEE! We go in the yard and play, we play in the house, I go to him for affection, give him kisses, eagerly greet him when he comes home, I follow him around the house, I seek him out.

If you want me to adore you like this I will! Go to www.fugeesrescue.org for more info on me, Laz! Or ask my foster mommy.

It truly is a brand new world!!