We have Anzac back

The reason my friend took Anzac was as a replacement, companion dog for Hanako because they're other dog had aggression problems so they were forced to put him down. Now Hanako, being a dog and not fully able to communicate with humans, has no idea why her old friend has gone, she just knows he's no longer around and I'm guessing she misses him. So when Anzac, a strange, new dog arrived, she was still pining for her old friend and decided she would not accept this new dog, so she didn't.

For a week Hanako totally ignored Anzac, deespite his best attempts to make friends with her. My friend's parents brought a couple of their dogs around (they have 4 small dogs) and Hanko played with one of them while Anzac played with the other, they all had a great time and played together, except when Anzac tried to play with Hanako and she just turned her nose up at him. She'd play with the other two dogs but would snub Anzac. My friend would go out running with Hanako and Anzac and they'd run side-by-side, but they may as well have been worlds apart.

Hanako wanted nothing to do with Anzac.

So I went to pick my dog up this afternoon, knocked on my friend's door and called out to him and there is ferocious barking from inside house telling me to get the f**k away from the door.

I call out to Hanako and am amazed when a black & white Border Collie head appears at the door. Anzac was so at home at my friend's place that he was protecting it, from me, his owner.

Despite this, with Hanako still giving Anzac the cold shoulder, there was no way Anzac could stay there. My friend said he could see that Anzac was trying so hard to make Hanako like him, and that he was getting depressed when Hanako refused to be friends.

So, we have our doggie back home, but I still need to find a good home for him.

As much as I love him, he needs a family with a house with a big yard where he can run and play.