Samba Mainwaring, June 2007

Samba was less than a year old when adopted from Buddy Dog way back April 2002. Lives with three cats. One she plays with, one she ignores, and one that she disciplines if she hears the cat scratching on furniture.

Canela and I fell in love!!!!

ALESSAM wrote: This is my first time on http://groups.google.com/group/satofamilies?hl=en

This is my Sato story:

I've been volunteering at our local animal shelter for about 5 years. After about 2 years, we started taking in a few Satos when we had room for them. We received out first group of 6 on a Thursday nite, and I was taking a couple of them to Petco for adoption day on Saturday. On the way there, Canela and I fell in love!!!!

I had never had a dog before (I've had cats since I was 5 years old), and I was going to wait until I retire to adopt a dog. I started volunteering just to be around dogs and to help them in any way I could. Well, when I fell in love with Canela, I knew I could not let her go, and I adopted her. She was 10 month old, and cute as a button. I took her home and realized she was not house-trained, or if she was, she reverted back. The first few weeks or so, I used to cry myself to sleep at night wondering what I had done. I was not ready for this!! How could I say I made a mistake? I wasn't sleeping at night, and was coming home to poop all over the house that took me hours to clean up. Well, each day got a little better than the day before, and now, after 2 years, I have such a wonderful companion, that I can't imagine my life without her.

Isn't she the cutest thing you ever saw???