Text Box: - An Update on the Activities of Westie Rescue -   We hope this letter finds you in good health and enjoying all the joy and enthusiasm  that your Westie(s) brings to you on a daily basis!   We have had many Westies in our rescue program and foster homes over the past year.  creating challenges for all the people and resources that make up Westie Rescue. We would like to share some of our successes with you.   Dwight  Sometimes receiving and placing a dog can be so easy. Dwight was born in Germany and purchased by an American family working overseas that was eventually transferred to Colorado.  A year or so later, a transfer to another country came and the family did not want to put Dwight through a very long quarantine period. A close friend with a Westie volunteered to adopt Dwight and it looked like Dwight’s future was bright. In his new home, he got along well with his Westie brother, but the home also had an extremely petite  cat that Dwight, in typical Westie fashion,  figured was put on this earth just for him to play with. After three weeks of Dwight’s attention, the cat had been to the vet twice, the last time with a broken bone in its paw.  Tearfully, the new owner called Westie Rescue. It was a  simple placement.  Dwight spent a  day in a foster home and was adopted by a family that had another Westie - and no cats!   Maggie  The family that bought Maggie  from a  puppy mill expected a quiet lap dog, a common mistake people make when they look at these cute, cuddly little bundles of white fur. Maggie, however, was an exceptionally bright, active dog. Compounding the problem was that Maggie was confined to a crate during the day while her owners were at work and at night when they were asleep. The time she was out of the crate, she was not anything like the calm lap dog her owners expected. They hoped her energy level would decrease as she got out of puppyhood, but it did not. This was another easy problem for Westie Rescue to solve. Simply find a “Westie savvy“ home for Maggie. Maggie’s new home had an older Westie who quickly became rejuvenated with such a bundle of energy in the house. Maggie now gets to go to a local dog park twice a day, and usuually  romps with  her “soul sister” Jezzie, a young  Llaso Apso with whom she wrestles and chases around the park. For months when first adopted, Maggie would cower, head for a corner, and bark and growl protectively  if someone came into her sleeping area at night, but now if her owners come down in the middle of the night, she greats them with a wagging tail.