I am trying to upload her picture, so I hope it came through!
We were told that Annie was surrendered because her original parents lost their home. She was with her foster family for 2 months before she was adopted. She was with that family for two weeks before she was returned because their dog could not get along with Annie.
When we arrived at the foster home, there were several dogs of all sizes and everyone seemed to get along fine. I was a little disappointed to discover that foster Mom wasn't going to be able to meet with us because she was running late for another adoption. We talked briefly by phone and were instructed "to sign one contract, and take the other for our records." She repeated this several times. I asked to get a sample of Annie's food so that we could be consistent and she replied that she didn't have any food, she had to go buy some.
I also didn't get any of her heart worm or flea medicine. Shouldn't I? With our previous yorkie, we gave her medicine every month.
When we left, I was trying to give the foster mom's young daughter the fee for Annie, and she was too busy watching TV and said "just leave it on the counter."
When we got Annie home, she was totally clueless as to what a wee wee pad was. I attributed this to everything being new. Even though the foster mom told us that she uses wee wee pads. To this day, she still is clueless. We were really hoping to continue this practice as we have hawks in our backyard and I don't want to take a chance with anything happening to Annie.
After doing some research on the YT website, I now am training her like a puppy and things are working great! Though, I would like your all's advice on how I can train her to go inside. She seems to like to do her business first thing in the morning on the wee wee pads, but everything after that she wants to do outside.
I asked if she had puppies, and was told no she did not. Well....this girls boobs are bigger than mine!! LOL!! Not that it matters, but just one more thing I don't believe we were told the truth about.
I contacted the foster mom with our concerns about her house training, and her response was "if you don't have the time or patience for her, then return her and we will find someone else who will." I explained that I will not be returning Annie, and that I was only trying to seek some advice on how to help her....meaning what was her routine,etc.
Was I expecting too much from the foster mom?