Introducing Kimmy

This is Kimmy...

You have seen the picture of Chloe

on the sidebar.

Chloe is our easy dog to love.

She is cute and has an amazing

personality. She welcomes people and

absolutely loves to be "adored".

Kimmy is the opposite of all of that.

She pants...a lot.

She barks at any strange noise or person

who dares to come near our home.

She gets carsick.

Too much water at one time doesn't sit well, either.

She is kind of hard to love.

When we brought Kimmy home from the

Amish farm where she was born

she made a horrible mess in the car and

then went into a terrible

form of shock and was out of it for hours.

We decided that we had brought home a "dud".

But then there is this side to Kimmy,

she is loyal.

She loves her family...so much!

She is especially bonded to me

and will be sleeping at my feet -

(she prefers my lap but she is over 40 pounds now)

at every possible moment.

Once she really trusts someone

they are her forever friend.

Friends who come over regularly are

met with much joy

while those who she

sees as "new" get the horrible

growly bark.

I guess that is how it can be with

people too.

Some are naturally easy to love

while others have this

guard up over their heart.

They test those around them

to see if they can trust them.

Then when the friendship is formed

and the trust is there

the appreciation and beauty of

their true personality can come out.

I hope that I can give the "Kimmy" people

enough time to see that I can

be trusted and that I

want to be their friend.

We don't know what happened in

Kimmy's first few months to cause her

fear...we are just glad that we

have spent the time to get to

know her sweet side.