I just can't understand why she would end up at the pound. She has no habits bad enough for someone to kick her out, but I guess people do things for many different reasons.
Thanks for the info, whitsend! Fortunately, she only barks when something is actually going on. Unfortunately, the deer are usually going on...
But they usually go by reasonably quickly and Nilla does not bark long. And also fortunately, she does not really dig (that's Shadow's forte, dang it!).
Your Flower sounds like she was wonderful. And the really ironic thing is that the name they gave this one in the pound was Petal.
Miss Stocky, Sweet and Solid just did not fit "Petal" in my thinking, so she became Sadie, at least until I went to Petco to get her bathed and there were two other Sadies there.
So she became Nilla, and Nilla she will stay.
Thanks for the pic, Vaughan/Steve!
Susan