Quote Originally Posted by ad4mg View Post
Congratulations on giving Finnley a home! Penny, in my avatar, is a golden retriever / great Pyrenees mix. She will turn 8 years old this winter. She was a rescue that came from where my wife worked for many years, the Appalachian Great Pyrenees Rescue Group here in Varina. They are actually located in the Richmond National Battlefield Park (Fort Harrison), just down the road from us.

Knowing the breed very well (I volunteer at the rescue group), I would wager that Finnley had the best intentions in mind when she wasted that ugly, fat, useless old "whistle pig". They can do considerable damage to gardens and such.

BTW - Finnley is a very nice looking girl!
Well, she did just get a trip to the spa (bath, trim, nails, the works) on Saturday. And yes, she is.

Cost me, though. See, she decided that she didn't want to get up on one of the tables, or even move. So she sat down on the floor at the grooming salon and wouldn't budge. So it took two groomers to work on her... thus an extra fee.

That's what floored me about the whole thing. This is a very shy dog, a little skittish around people, has some anxiety issues, is DEATHLY afraid of ceiling fans (not the slightest clue WHY though)... and she goes after a groundhog, a BIG adult one (almost 2 feet long, weighed in the neighborhood of 30 pounds), grabs it by the neck with her teeth, drags it, shakes it until it's neck is broken... and then does that 2 or 3 more times until it's not just mostly dead, but all dead. (And no pockets holding loose change, either).

I wonder if your rescue group would have any connections that could tell us her backstory? A long shot, I know. But all the Greater Pittsburgh Great Pyrenees Club folks could tell us is that they got her via (at least) one other group, and that she'd been fostered by them for about 6 months or so. OTOH, maybe we're better off not knowing.