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01/28/2014 -Had a good conversation with Laura Cox. I really liked her. Yes, she is young, 25, and her husband is too, 29, but she is intelligent and sensible and thoughtful and they have a plan for their life and it includes an Airedale. She works for an ad agency and can take her dog to work. Their agency does a lot of pro bono work for the Greenville Humane Society so the company urges employees to bring their dogs to work. I asked about their typical day: they both are out of the house by 9; she comes home for lunch for 1 to 1-1/2 hours then back to work till 5 or 5:30. Her husband works further away and gets home around 6. During the week, they don’t go out except 1 night for bible study. On weekends they may go out with friends 1 night, but they are doing a lot of projects on their house and yard so they’re pretty busy there and are homebodies. She said they want to have children but will not do that until she is able to stay home full time. We talked about people giving up their Airedales because they have children (thinking here of Nadia and Ruthie) and she said that they could not imagine doing that, but again, she will be a stay-at-home mom.
Neither of them have allergies but she’s thinking of the potential for a child to have allergies. I told her Airedales are not hypoallergenic and she understood. We talked about Airedales needing training and though neither of them have training experience, she said her husband is the kind who will read everything he can get his hands on about training. They have friends with dogs, some of which are well-trained, some of which are not. They do not want to be those people with a dog that is not trained. I recommended Whole Dog Journal and Pat Miller as training guides.
Told her that her Airedale could not stay out in fenced yard if neither of them was home. She agreed to that; no problem.
They sound like good candidates even though this will be their first dogs as adults. Just need a HV in Greenville, SC.
01/20/2014 – Vet reference is ok.They saw one of the Dobies once before it was euthanized and the other one just a couple of times. His last Doberman was euthanized last year and his male in 2011.
01/20/2014:
From Gary:
I have been excited too after our conversation. Gail is my mother. We do live in the same house. She is retired and home most days. That said she sometimes travels and Ellie would probably be in her kennel but we try to coordinate schedules so that they don’t have to stay too long. Normal day I am up at 7:00 and leave for work around 10:00 my mom is here unless she.goes shopping or to visit my brother and his family. I return home and either exercise here or go running. Ellie and I can run, walk or play fetch or some basic training and grooming in the backyard. Then off to bed. Weekends, we will visit parks, doggie park near here, I am always running errands on Saturdays and we will do sme training and gain some exposure to other people. Most of the time she.will go with me if at all possible. She will do a great amount of riding and walking. Sunday’s I work around the.house and yard and bake bread and dog treats. i also go visit family and most places I go are.dog friendly.
As for roughshod over the six year old, both will be fine. I will never leave the dogs and children with one another for.their own safety, however, they both have to learn and when I’m confident they mutually understand one another I will leave.them alone for short periods. My children (dobemans) really would play with the kids for a little while but if I left the room they just followed me.
Hopefully, I have answered your questions but if you have more just let me know.
Best,
Gary
On Jan 19, 2014 8:25 PM, “Jackie Cash” <airedalemail@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi, Gary. I am so happy to hear this. But, now I have some clarifying questions. I made an assumption (dangerous, I know) that Gail was your wife/partner. But, she does live with you or you with her, correct? Frankly, I got so excited about the possibility of a home for Ellie when I was talking to you, I failed to ask everything I should have. You say on the application that your Airedale would be home alone 3 hours a day. Please describe a typical day and typical weekend.
The current foster mom is concerned about Ellie’s ability to run roughshod over a 6-year-old. You said your children are accustomed to big dogs, so that is a good thing. I take it your children would be supervised with Ellie until you are quite certain that they all are safe.
Thanks for your patience, Gary, and for clarifying for me.
Steven Frederick, who I believe is also a vet, has volunteered their (his and Dr. Winkler’s) services if we need them in their area.
01/18/2014: Had a couple of emails back from Bonnie. House didn’t go through but they’re now looking at another one and should be moving soon. They’re still interested and will keep us updated. They saw Ellie on the site and said maybe she’ll still be around. I told them we couldn’t guarantee it, but…
1/19/2014: P. Gary Lee is a delightful man who loves dogs and grew up with an Airedale. He most recently had two Dobermans, both of which were rescues and he was a volunteer with a Doberman Rescue Group in Texas for a couple of years. He knows that with rescued dogs, you may have to work with them to learn their true personalities and that they may take more training and patience than many people are willing to invest. I clarified with him his answer to where Airedale would stay when he was at work or away from home. He answered “out if safe but have a kennel as well.” I explained that the Airedale cannot stay outside when no one is home. He didn’t mean outside; he meant out in the house. Excellent.
I mentioned Ellie to him and explained her past and he said that was how his female Doberman was. She came from a man and woman who were too busy and basically kept her in the sunroom all her life until they decided to give her up. He had to teach her everything. She had not been socialized to other dogs or humans.
We need the vet reference and a home visit. I like him a lot and want to move fast on this.
01/16/2014: They adopted an Airedale from NCAR but his wife’s and son’s allergies would not allow them to keep it. So they have withdrawn their application.
01/16/2014: Called and emailed Kathryn apologizing for waiting so long to respond. Asked her to let me know a good time to talk if she wants to proceed.
01/16/2014: Sent email apologizing for delay and asking if they’re still interested and if so to let me know when to call.
01/16/2014: They adopted a terrier-mix (but looks like a hound) from their local humane society and are very happy. I told them if they decided to add an Airedale later on to just jump back in.
01/16/2014: I emailed Paul Gary Lee and asked him if he was still interested to let me know a good time to talk. I “lost” this app in my emails. Sorry.
01/16/2014 I emailed Bonnie:
Hi, Bonnie. I hope your New Year has gotten off to a good start. You and I last spoke the first week of December and you and Terry were about to move to a new home and were planning to build a fence to accommodate your Wheaten, George, and potentially an Airedale.
If you are ready to proceed, I’ll contact one of our volunteers so that you two can plan for your home visit. If you’re not ready, just let me know and we’ll keep your application active.
We do have a couple of young female Airedales who are looking for homes.
I look forward to hearing from you.
