The Adventures of Sir Henry the Hound: Lady Luna

Big news: Henry now has a little sister! She's a golden retriever/heeler mix (the vet thinks) and we named her Luna. We weren't planning on getting another dog, anyone who has met Henry knows he's more than enough dog for anyone, especially first-time dog owners but she's here and she fits right in with our crazy pack.
This summer I have an internship where I do speech therapy home-visits with families for children under 3 years old. Most of the town I live in is considered "low-income" so my supervisor and I see a fair share of "not ideal" situations - Luna being one. We drove out to a placed called Corinne, Utah, which is basically just farmland for a home-visit with a family. When we got there, no one answered the door so we called and the mom said she'd be home soon, so we told her we were happy to wait on the porch. While we were waiting, out from under the porch crawls my future dog. She wasn't putting weight on her back right leg, she had 3 ticks (that we could immediately see) on her, her fur was matted, dirty, and covered in dust, and judging from her white gums she was severely dehydrated.
She walked right up to me, sat on my foot, and licked my legs as if to say "Hi. I'm your dog. What the hell took you so long to get here?"
Within seconds I knew that I wasn't leaving the house without this dog and, luckily (which seems to be a running theme this week), my supervisor felt the same way. We agreed that whether we take the dog now or we come back later that night and steal her, we were taking custody.
Again, luckily, at the end of the session when my supervisor casually mentioned we were admiring their beautiful dog on the porch, the owner said that she hadn't fed "the dog" and they tried to scare her away because the farmer they worked for hates dogs, and that they didn't want her...and when we mentioned we would take her, she was more than happy to tell us we could do what we wanted with her. She didn't even say goodbye to "the dog"- she said "the dog" was probably under porch, and with that she closed the door behind us.
Since then, the new pup has been fully vetted (Luna had never been to the vet or had a vaccination), bathed, brushed, clipped, trained, and named (twice, actually. First "Leila", which was changed to "Luna", as I was outvoted by Chris and Murphy's owner, Kate). In less than a week she learned to walk on a leash, sit, come to her name, and is potty trained. Her and Henry play constantly - and I mean constantly. When they're not eating or sleeping, they're wrestling toys from each other or nibbling each other. She's fantastic in the car (she drools excessively but then immediately falls asleep) and completely ignores other dogs.
The best part of all of this is how well she and Henry get along - I'm so thrilled. Chris and I have been talking about getting another dog on and off for the past few months, but never seriously. And this one just fell into my lap...actually sat on my foot, but same thing.

More on Luna to come - Friday she gets spayed...eek! Poor thing.

When Luna got to the apartment for the first time she immediately went down and fell asleep - and her fur was so matted! This was even after the vet cleaned her off.