[Help] Thinking of fostering/adopting dog that was injured (or possibly abused?). Already have a dog. Would like advice. Slight twist involved. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J About 6 months ago we went to our local shelter to get a dog. There was a litter of 4 girls and 3 boys that was 5 months old. We got one of the girls. It was a rough couple of initial weeks where our lives got turned upside down, but then things started settling down more and more. 6 months after we got her, we've got a wonderful 11 month old dog, who is sweet and well socialized (doggy daycare and the dog park most days), although she's quite velcroed to me (to the annoyance of my wife) and probably quite used to being an only-dog at home at this point. We did a DNA test on her a while back and it turns out she is 50% Doberman and 50% German Shepherd. On the 6 month anniversary of getting our pup, I gave her a special chicken/banana/peanut butter dinner and that evening I was feeling a bit nostalgic so visited the social media page for the shelter we got her at (which I usually avoid). Imagine my horror when I see a posting on there from just the day before with pictures of my dog fairly badly injured. But my dog was with me and just fine. I was pretty sure it was one of my dog's sisters. I called the shelter the next day and asked if the dog was chipped and had been adopted out from there on/about the date that I had gotten my pup. They confirmed that the dog was chipped, and didn't quite confirm the adoption, but kind of implied it. They asked if I was her family, and then I explained that I believe she was a littermate of my pup. They told me that her family was supposed to come in that day (two days after she was brought in injured). The day after that (today), I called the shelter again. This time, they did tell me her original ID number in their system. I still had the ID numbers of the four girls from that litter written down. Sure enough, it was my dog's sister. They were a bit unclear on what exactly is happening with her family, but started mentioning that they have to give the family 10 days, but assuring me that she was with a good medical foster. There kind of seemed to be an implication that they thought she wouldn't be returning to her family. My wife and I have talked some about it, and we are thinking of seeing, if she doesn't return to her family, if we can do a foster-to-adopt with her. We first and foremost want to make sure that it doesn't turn into a nightmare scenario for our own pup. After 6 months, we figure they won't remember each other, but were curious if others have had experience with (same-sex) sibling dogs reuniting/living together after some time has passed? Is it more likely that they'd get along because they are closely related, more likely that they'd have issues, or their relatedness not likely to make a difference on the chances of them getting along after this much time has passed? Any recommendations or advice? Are we crazy for considering this? We know that she wouldn't be a clone of our dog, but figure that the energy levels and potential for eventually fitting into our lives in a similar way to our current dog is likely there, but that she may have issues due to her injuries (or if she was abused- we don't know), and not having been with us and trained the same way. dogs throwawaycontainer

About 6 months ago we went to our local shelter to get a dog. There was a litter of 4 girls and 3 boys that was 5 months old. We got one of the girls. It was a rough couple of initial weeks where our lives got turned upside down, but then things started settling down more and more. 6 months after we got her, we've got a wonderful 11 month old dog, who is sweet and well socialized (doggy daycare and the dog park most days), although she's quite velcroed to me (to the annoyance of my wife) and probably quite used to being an only-dog at home at this point. We did a DNA test on her a while back and it turns out she is 50% Doberman and 50% German Shepherd.

On the 6 month anniversary of getting our pup, I gave her a special chicken/banana/peanut butter dinner and that evening I was feeling a bit nostalgic so visited the social media page for the shelter we got her at (which I usually avoid). Imagine my horror when I see a posting on there from just the day before with pictures of my dog fairly badly injured. But my dog was with me and just fine. I was pretty sure it was one of my dog's sisters.

I called the shelter the next day and asked if the dog was chipped and had been adopted out from there on/about the date that I had gotten my pup. They confirmed that the dog was chipped, and didn't quite confirm the adoption, but kind of implied it. They asked if I was her family, and then I explained that I believe she was a littermate of my pup. They told me that her family was supposed to come in that day (two days after she was brought in injured).

The day after that (today), I called the shelter again. This time, they did tell me her original ID number in their system. I still had the ID numbers of the four girls from that litter written down. Sure enough, it was my dog's sister. They were a bit unclear on what exactly is happening with her family, but started mentioning that they have to give the family 10 days, but assuring me that she was with a good medical foster. There kind of seemed to be an implication that they thought she wouldn't be returning to her family.

My wife and I have talked some about it, and we are thinking of seeing, if she doesn't return to her family, if we can do a foster-to-adopt with her. We first and foremost want to make sure that it doesn't turn into a nightmare scenario for our own pup.

After 6 months, we figure they won't remember each other, but were curious if others have had experience with (same-sex) sibling dogs reuniting/living together after some time has passed? Is it more likely that they'd get along because they are closely related, more likely that they'd have issues, or their relatedness not likely to make a difference on the chances of them getting along after this much time has passed?

Any recommendations or advice? Are we crazy for considering this?

We know that she wouldn't be a clone of our dog, but figure that the energy levels and potential for eventually fitting into our lives in a similar way to our current dog is likely there, but that she may have issues due to her injuries (or if she was abused- we don't know), and not having been with us and trained the same way.

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