wombat's history

 
we got in touch with the woman who originally rescued wombat from the pound in perth and got in touch with the rescue place in melbourne that we adopted her from. we asked her if she could had any information about wombat's previous life before we got her.
she was owned by an alleged drug dealer who used her purely as a puppy producer. once her pups were sold she was dumped (still with her rego tags on!). she was pregnant again when this woman got a hold of her (i'm assuming that she's probably a vet). they desexed her and removed the pups. she also gave wombat all her vaccinations and made sure everthing was good.
as for her aggression towards other dogs, the woman assumes that its probably partly from not being properly socialized as a puppy and that behaviour was probably encouraged by her previous owner.
we're still working on her aggression but i've got her to be pretty focused with me when other dogs are around (she still has issues with zac a lot of the time). we started her on "smakos" today (cuz "dogs go wacko for smackos"-- we now know its true). they seem to work really well (doggy junk food)- much better than the peanut butter cookies or even the disgusting meatball things we got from the refrigerated pet food section. we're just gonna keep workin on getting her to focus on us and realizing that other dogs aren't a threat. she's very smart. she knows a lot of the neighbourhood dogs that bark behind back fences and she knows to completely ignore them now. its just getting her to completely focus on us when random dogs are on the footpath or in the park with us.