Energy and animals. I always find it amazing how animals sense peoples energies. We do the same thing, but we cover that up with words and intentions and a ton of other things. Then animals, they sense it and accept it for what it is and that is just so neat.
Not too long after our golden retriever Bebe passed, we started looking for another dog. We went to golden retriever rescue group and waited while they processor application and had a dog that might be what we were looking for.
The lady who was fostering this dog e-mailed me pictures of the dog and told me that someone else was going to look at him the day after Thanksgiving. I replied that I was interested in the dog but did not want to know more until a new whether this other couple wanted them or not
Checking my mail the day after Thanksgiving, I found e-mail from her stating that the other couple had looked at the dog and decided that he was too much of a puppy for them. We set up a time to see the dog the next morning
Upon walking in the house, we met the dog right at front door. We let him sniff us over, and then I get down on my knees and started petting him. He just stayed there and let me do it. The foster mom had come into the living room and sit down, and the dog came over in laid at her feet. We picked up a toy through it a couple times and he ran after and got it and brought it back to us. But for the most part, he just stayed with us and was not very active. The foster mom told us that this was a totally different dog than the other people had seen the day before.
While this dog was not a purebred golden, he was part Golden and part Labrador retriever. Golden retrievers can be quite hyperactive with lots of energy. Labrador retrievers tend to be more laid back and calm. This dog, whom they were calling Judd, seemed to have inherited both of those traits. Not knowing his birthday, they figured he was between one and two years old. He could very much be the puppy, right at that moment he was being very calm and very laid-back.
We got taken home that day for a two-week trial to see if he worked out with our other dog and our cat. After the first week, we saw that he could be both a very active in a very calm dog. Most the time he laid by my side. Even if I got up to go to the bathroom, when I came out he would be sitting outside the door waiting for me (and he still does that to this day). At that point, we have decided that we're going to keep them and agree named him Tyler which he responded to a lot more than he did Judd.
But when I look at how it all came together, she read our energies from the moment we walked in the door at the foster home. He decided in those very few seconds that we were the people he wanted to go home with. The day before with the other couple, he must've sensed that it would not be right for him and had been much more rambunctious because of that. With us he decided it was absolutely right, and played the role of the super calm dog to make that pointÂ
Animals know. They really do. There is no doubt in my mind that this dog chose us.