@TheEddieShow
My husband saw her on Craig's list right after he got home from a month in the hospital. She was the runt of a litter of eight and the only one that hadn't sold. She had food related anxiety and wouldn't eat consistently.
He really wanted to give her a home so I called the breeders. Her parents were well regarded hunting dogs. The owners didn't know what they were going to do because she was very small, wouldn't eat and no one wanted to train her as a hunting dog.
I made a generous offer to buy her and drove hundreds of miles to bring her home.
She and my husband immediately bonded. It has been three and a half years now. She is our first dog.
She isn't small anymore and would probably have excelled as a hunting retriever. She is amazingly smart, athletic and has a soft mouth.
We got very lucky that no one else wanted her.