Chloe Binns
Sad News 5 August 2022
Chloe’s mum wrote, “It is with a very heavy heart that I’m writing to let you know that our beautiful golden girl lost her gallant fight with lymphoma on 5th August after being diagnosed the first week of the New Year. She was a sweet, gentle soul and everyone, human and animal, fell in love with her. She has left a huge hole in our lives, which she enriched since 2013 thanks to IRR. “
History
Age: 18 months
Sex: Female – spayed
History
Zoe is being surrendered to IRR by her owner.
Personality:
Zoe is good-natured, good with children and loves to be included in family activities.
Zoe’s Dream Home:
Zoe is a young dog, so she would appreciate an active home where there’s always something interesting happening! She will make a fabulous pet.
June 2013
Chloe (was Zoe) has gone to her Forever Home
ONE YEAR ON (SEPT 2014)
Being just over a year since adopting Chloe, Gillian has very kindly sent us this lovely update.
“Well, where to begin? As our third rescue Goldie, we felt pretty well prepared for whatever Chloe had to throw at us. How wrong we were!”
Gillian could see Nicky and her family had done a wonderful job as fosterers but Chloe had taken a lot of comfort from their dogs and found herself a little lost in her new home without them. It was clear she had been left to her own devices by her original owners, with no training, so she seemed to lack the willingness to please that is normally expected of the breed.
Gillian told us “We had to keep her under permanent supervision or else a trail of destruction would soon emerge! She particularly liked to “help” in the garden – earth moving and pruning being her speciality! We lost many things those first few months; shoes, towels, plants and a pair of hair straighteners to name a few! The one thing Chloe did know how to do was open doors (less than ideal with a dog that was not entirely housetrained!).
Our biggest worry about bringing Chloe home was whether she would get on with Jack, our house rabbit. This, like everything with Chloe, had no quick fix. She found him very exciting (which is understandable) but, with time and persistence, she has learned that he is not a cuddly toy. In fact, she now sees Jack as “top dog” after he put her in her place with a little nip to the nose, and they are thick as thieves together.
Building up her confidence has been a slow process, but over the last six months Chloe has really started to blossom. She was prone to worrying and spooked easily (a sneeze would send her scuttling from the room) and, although still not a totally confident dog, she is so much better. Initially we couldn’t drive her ten minutes down the road without her being sick from worrying. Lynne kindly sent Flower Essences to help and we persevered with lots of short trips. Now we can take her to visit family members, who are a two hour drive away, without incident. Also her fear of people, particularly men, has almost completely vanished, to the point where she will introduce herself to just about anybody in the hope of a fuss.
Chloe has come so far since we collected her last summer both with her behaviour and her confidence. She has just been accepted to do Pets As Therapy charity work and she is already very popular with the residents (and staff) at the care home we visit. We couldn’t be more proud of her or happy that she is part of our family. Thank you so much for bringing her into our lives.”
