Sikou's story

We got Sikou when he was about 4 years old from a refuge called the American Eskimo Refuge Sanctuary. Before he went to the refuge he was trained to be a guard dog and a breeding dog. He lived outside almost all of his life. He was given up by his old owners because they wanted a bigger house, a bigger car, and a bigger dog. They took his dog house, and left him. He ran away and the American Rescue League took him. The people who owned the American Eskimo Refuge Sanctuary (Stacy and Perry), saw him and took him to their refuge. He lived there with about 15 other dogs. The refuge is a small house so it was very crammed. I had wanted a dog about the time he was there and I had studied dogs until I knew a lot about them. We had narrowed it down to American Eskimo, Keeshond, and a Norfolk Terrier. We choose American Eskimo because we couldn't find any Keeshonds or Norfolk Terriers. When we got there Sikou was all excited and jumped up on the bench we had sat on licking our faces. At that moment we knew we had to take him. But when we had taken him home, he acted like he had never been in a house before. At the refuge he had lived in a large cage in the garage. My mom and I have had Sikou for almost 3 years and he has turned out to be a fuzz ball of joy! He has trouble with others dogs though because around when we first got him he was attacked by 3 dogs. He is now scared of big dogs and black dogs because 2 of the dogs that attacked him were black and the other dog was big, but he is a very good boy.