But, even early on, when we put Reddi in a situation he was familiar with, you'd see him visibly relax, like "oh, cool, I know how to do this, and this will keep me in their good graces for now."
We do foster care and prefer that our kids come to us and never leave, so we don't very often have a new kid but occassionally something changes. I think kids new to our home (Stephanie is the only one we've ever taken that had language) feel they've fallen into the hands of benevolent captors. I have that same feeling with some horses. We seem nice, but ... they didn't ask to come here. Nancy
