I actually found her in our local classifieds. Apparently, the wife of the couple that was getting rid of their dogs just had knee surgery on both of her knees and so she was unable to care for them anymore while her husband went to work.
We bought Calliope's kennel and she went in it fine, in fact the first couple of days she rarely came out she just observed us.
Her previous owner's I think trained her pretty well, she's not very territorial about food, about toys, about her special beds throughout the house, and I don't get the sense that she is territorial about her kennel. She is pretty good at listening, when we tell her "no" she stops what she is doing and will go about something else. It's only when we've been gone a couple of hours and leave her in the crate that she reacts this way, scared, growling, about to attack. Umm...like I said, she does the attack position on her toys, but she is not shaky scared with us throughout the weekdays when she is out. And she sleeps fine in her kennel at night, that is aprrox. 7 hrs. and she comes out in the morning happy. So, I'm figuring it's not staying in her kennel for long periods of time that is causing her to react this way because she stays in there throughout the day 2-3hrs. to sleep or just chill, when we are home. I think it has something to do with us leaving her alone for those couple of hours.
Like yorkietalkjilly pointed out, I don't know what kind of life she had. I'm thinking that Calliope was taken care of and trained early on as a puppy because she knows not to chew on things that aren't hers, she was potty trained, she knows simple commands, and knows how to stay in a kennel. But, I have a feeling that after the wife had surgery that the dog was neglected. The husband informed me that he had to leave the dogs while at work and that's why he wanted to quickly rehome their dogs.
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