Apr 19, 2021
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I have to admit up front, Sissy is currently my favorite dog in the shelter. I adore her! Though she and I did get off to a bit of a rough start. Sissy is just about 2 years old, and is a 58 pound hound/shepard mix. Sweet Sissy’s first couple years were rough. Rougher than any of us would ever want to go through. She came to OHS in early March as part of an animal hoarding case. She had previously lived with as many as 7 little dogs, and didn’t particularly like any of them. Much of that was probably due to the kind of ‘everyone is out for themselves’ spot that often comes from hoarding cases. When Sissy first came to Oregon Humane, she was very scared, shut down, afraid of touch, afraid to play, and very barrier reactive toward people who came past her kennel. And her kennel was in a tough spot. She was in kennel 1, which the first one everyone walks by when entering the dog kennel pods. Every time I (and others) walk