Letter to Jessica:

Next weekend we're scheduled to be babysitting my friend Heidi's two kids overnight. After yesterday, I was really worried that Ziva would be the same with them that she was with Cole. We haven't seen them for a month, although they used to come over every week.

Ziva barked ferociously when she saw them approaching our house. But once they came in and she got her first sniffs, things went much more normally (normal comparing to how she was with them in September). She was still tightly wound for the first 20 minutes or so, but she was able to settle down some, and then after an hour, she was totally fine with them.

None of this is to suggest you come over again before you're ready. Not at all. It's just to say--more to me than you, probably--that there is hope.

Yesterday was pretty traumatizing for me. I struggle to make my home welcoming to others. Obviously Ziv0's behavior toward strangers makes that exponentially harder.

We have an appointment with Pet Village to have her evaluated next Thursday. But today was encouraging, as she acted much more normally.

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