This Dog is Not Digging a Tunnel Back to Home

This little hound is Elfie, named for sail-like ears atop a delicate skiff.  Elfie, wings alighted on the traveler herself.

Elfie awaits her trip home.  Not back home, to whatever terrible place she was kept before our rescue partners in Spain found her in a Spanish shelter (note her terrified look in the photo above, taken when she arrived at the shelter), but here to Hound Sanctuary in California, where she will be loved and prepared for more love in her forever home. Home.

Right now you might be thinking, "Well that's a really adorable little girl, but wow I don't want a rut like that in my yard!"  Elfie wants you to know under no uncertain terms that she did NOT dig that ditch.  She is only making the most of what someone else has given her. And isn't that a great quality?  Perhaps taking Elfie into your home will get you out of some rut or another; perhaps she can show you how to make the most out of life.  Here she is, stopping to smell not just the flowers, but the weeds! 

Enjoying the sounds of the country day.

A simple car ride with a new friend.

Elfie's foster mom in Spain has been working with her on her fear of people, and she has made great progress.  When she arrived in late 2014, it appeared no one had ever really cared for her.  Look at her expression when she was presented with a large meaty bone for her very own at Christmas:

Her foster mom said it was as if she was shocked--as if she could not believe this all was really just for her.  Poor sweetheart.

But she saw that the other two pods who came in with her also got their own bones!, and she began to believe that it might be true . . . .

and she was glad.  Perhaps for the very first time.