Kierstienne is a CCI pup who turned 1 on July 4, 2024. Her puppy raiser is a delightful older woman who found herself in over her head when Kierstienne was about 5 months old. She reached out to the CCI community asking for help. Ideally, she was looking for a co-raiser. I reached out and said that I could help but likely did not have time to be a co-raiser. At that point, she brought her over for a visit and I gave her a bunch of tips.
A little while later, we took her for a day and worked on some stuff that she was having trouble with - including being resistant to her gentle leader. We played gentle leader games with her and BAM - fixed that problem!
The awhile later, the puppy raiser ended up in the ER and had no one to watch Kierstienne and didn't know how long she would be in the hospital. Jim ran over (I was at the cabin) and rescued Kierstienne from her crate and brought her to the cabin. We had her for a couple days and brought her home once the puppy raiser was released.
Most recently, the puppy raiser had a more significant medical issue and reached out to let me know since I am invested in Kierstienne. She had talked to the Puppy Program Manager who told her she had a couple choices: re-home Kierstienne or find a co-raiser. And then she had a longer term option of sending her to San Quentin in November. The inmates would work with her for the month, giving the puppy raiser a break.
If you have read this far, you have figured it out: We agreed to take her for a week to allow the puppy raiser to rest. After the first week, we checked back in and she asked if we could keep her until Aug 10. Because I am living at the cabin right now and not going to the office, the answer was an easy "yes". So this is our guest, Kierstienne, living the adventurous life that we give our dogs.
She is a great dog who is super easy to manage. When she first came to us, she was dog crazy. She just could not get enough of the dogs and played a bit out of control. But these last couple weeks of having dog friends 24/7 has solved that problem. There is so much they learn from other dogs that this has been a really good experience. Plus I have seen her confidence grow as she watched the other dogs do stuff that she was not sure about.
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