ACE Jimena, how are you now?

 Friday, August 27, 2021

Five months after her adoption, Frida (ACE Jimena) seems pretty used to her new life. This morning in the woods she did a few brisk sprints and tried to get a few dogs to run after her (which unfortunately doesn't work often enough).

At the end of March, when I first visited her with Neeltje (our other dog) with Irene and her mother (her host family), I could never have dreamed of this. And not when I went to pick her up a week later.

She had come back from adoption because there was no other dog for her to hang out with and that's how she ended up with Irene. There it immediately went a lot better, because there was also an old acquaintance of hers from the shelter in shelter and there were also 3 house dogs. She was able to relax there and she was well taken care of. I still have a lot of contact with Irene and a few weeks ago we even had a reunion with, among other things, a walk together with all our dogs, great fun!

It soon turned out to be a golden match between Frida and Neeltje. Neeltje, who had become a bit insecure towards other dogs after the loss of our previous dog Tinka, has more confidence with her buddy Frida by her side, because Frida is very good at dog language. And Frida learns from our everyone's friend Neeltje again that people are not that scary at all. In fact, they often have tasty treats with them. She already knows exactly who she can get something from, but letting herself be stroked extensively by a stranger (although he still has so many treats) is still a step too far.

Because of the fine course of events with ACE, the pleasant contact with Irene and seeing Frida blossom, my dear Simon and I thought more and more about taking care of animals ourselves. And so it happened.

Since more than 3 weeks we have had ACE Persian in shelter, a very nice young male (the black kitten in the picture) that has come back from adoption. Next week another dog from another foundation will be added and the following week ACE Naila will also come to our shelter.

So much fun to look forward to. We think Frida might still have a lot of support (and fun) from the new shelter dogs later.