Kiwi's Arrives in Nj

Kiwi foster plans changed a few times over the first few weeks she was in NJ. She spent her first week in a temporary foster while we finalized plans for her long term foster. An opportunity came up for us to partner with Camp Bow Wow and they offered to foster Kiwi for us long term. We decided to give this option a try and since the Camp Bow Wow was located near me and I would plan to pick Kiwi up some days/weekends to make sure she still got to spend time in a home environment and get a break from the daycare environment.
Kiwi was extremely nervous when she first arrived at Camp BowWow but quickly warmed up and seemed to enjoy mingling with the other dogs. All of the staff at CBW instantly fell in love with Kiwi and found that she was so mellow they were able to use her to calm down some of the craziest and most high strung dogs.
I went to visit Kiwi today to meet her and get some pictures for her petfinder. I was surprised when I met her that she did not seem nearly as large as the picture I had seen of her made her look. She was a bit nervous and skeptical of me at first but very quickly warmed up and began to nudge up against me wagging her nub looking for attention.

Here are the pictures

Kiwi's Past

A wonderful woman named Marie contacted Tri-State Weim Rescue and informed us of a senior weim located in the Coastal Humane Society in Maine. They do not have a local weim rescue and she was willing to personally drive Kiwi out to us if we would take her in.
Kiwi's background is a sad story of being used as a breeding machine. We are unsure of how many litters she had but her poor belly shows it was def quite a few (shes in need of a tummy tuck!). In 2007 she apparently stopped "taking" when bred. She was spayed and than given up in 2009 because she was "getting older"..this was the actual reason written on her surrender paperwork.
Kiwi's skin and fur are a bit of a mess as she had a flea allergy and apparently had fleas...she also was diagnosed by the shelter vet with a hypothyroid condition which she is now on medication for. The first picture of Kiwi that Tri-State received make her look like one of the most overweight weims we have seen yet!

It took some work as the shelter Kiwi was at had a Distemper outbreak scare that turned out to only be Canine Flu outbreak so all dogs were quarantined and put on a hold. We thought we were going to have to wait months to bring Kiwi to us but it turned out she tested negative so the shelter allowed Marie to bring her to us. So Kiwi began the journey to her new future.