Jack now Jackie

So I am techno slow, so I have no picture of Jackie. Jackie came to us as a Foster in October. She was our first foster. She is a pickle, likes to run and some other issues. I wasn't sure she would fit, we don't have a fenced yard but we have made it work. She has run a couple of times, thanks to Erin for coming to my house at 5am one morning to look for her in the dark. :) She has only run away a couple of times in the past few months. Little stinker, ends up back at our doorstep when she wants, and looks at me like "aren't you going to open the door" . Jackie has had a rough life but not as bad as many dogs. Surrendered a couple of times to SDR before she came to us. She is a good dog, but had some very undog savy families and a beagle is not a breed for the unsavy. She is a love bug and sleeps under the covers in my arms. She was on several home visits, did some trial overnights, and actually got adopted and then re-returned to us over the last 5 months. So over
the past 5 months she has been in and out of our home. Everyone else had problems with her but she would come back to us and do fine. Everyone who brought her back said as soon as she got close to our home, she would get crazy happy. Well we even had a dog behavior person come to our house to try to see if we could make her "more adoptable". This gal was amazing and gave us some tips and we are taking Jackie to her class starting this week. So after some coaxing and some deep prayer, it was obvious that Jackie kept coming back to us, because she had already picked her forever home and just like a beagle was bound and determined to make it so. Our good friend calls our house Club Med for dogs, so no surprise she wants to stay. We adopted her! I now run her while I ride my bike to burn some of her energy, even in the snow. Pray that we can reign in her desire to run a bit, my heart can't take it.