I am not like all the rest -you can see them any day of the week... I am Kirby, the magnificent.  My foster mom says I am a doggy genius. And like many geniuses, I have some eccentricities. I have seen things and lived places that would have killed a lesser dog. I was captured on the street with a pack of wild dogs who were untouchable, but I had a something they did not have. When I was a baby, I was loved by a girl, and I remember that. So when a lady savior came to the cage of my pack and all the other dogs froze or snarled, I crawled into her lap and held on for dear life.  She walked out of there with me in her arms and  took me to a miracle lady and her husband who kept me for a year while I learned how to be a pet again. It took months before I trusted the man and made friends with some other dogs. And now I am in NJ where I have learned to be a dog who can walk on a leash.     I have flashbacks. I have post-traumatic-stress disorder! Sometimes, especially when I go to a new home and am snuggling with my new person, I notice another person walking across the room and I imagine the trashcans and alleys of my past and rush at that walking person and try to drive them away from my beloved new human. I forget that I am in a home again and safe with plenty to eat.  (three times I have been returned!) I chase  away dogs and cats, I try to control my world..but I only do this until I feel safe. It takes a while. I don't do this at my foster mom's house anymore although I don't like new animals coming to steal her time from me. Oh..and I curse. I have some bad language. I need a person with confidence who can take me to a training class, spend plenty of time with me and who understand that it will take time for me to trust more than one person at a time. I might even need to be leashed in my new home at first so I don't chase people who want a glass of water! And I need someone who can laugh at my cursing because I will stop the second you kiss me on the nose. Really, you have to understand my complicated nature and know that I will love you with every silky hair on my tiny body. If you are looking for a really special companion, one who will love you and realize how rewarding rescue is, then please apply to adopt me, Kirby, at:  www.wagoninn.rescuegroups.org and go to website features, forms and applications and please fill out an adoption application for me, Kirby.  I just know that there is  someone special out there, who is as special as I am, and we can live our lives together in love and peace....
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