Success Story - Sophie
DAWG had paid for the adoption fee and medical care for the dog we adopted in Feb of 2016 (Sharpie - we call her Sophie now). She's been a great dog, has good manners, quickly got over her anxiety of being left alone for a few hours etc.. Not sure why she was at the shelter as long as she was, but everyone else's loss is our gain. :) We've recently started taking her to the La Paws park, she's still aloof but has found a few friends she likes to play with.
Candidly, I think she prefers to just go for walks with us. This is her patiently waiting for me to take a break from work. The monkey is identical to one she had at the shelter, we bought her a new one when the original got too ratty and put them in a plastic bag together overnight. As you can see, she's still very attached to it.