Lottie

WONDERFUL NEWS FROM THEIR FOREVER HOME (JUNE 2018)

Their forever Mum, Astrid, told us “We have had a lovely week with our girls. Already, they have brought so much joy to us. They have really made themselves at home, lounging on their beds or the sofa and are amazing in the house, so quiet and gentle.   

They are enjoying all the love and attention and Ana (Gladys) no longer has a sad look in her eyes, she smiles.  Lottie (Georgia) is a fusspot, she wants all the strokes and cuddles and pinches all her mum’s leftover food.  

They have been exploring the open fields around our village. We can let them off individually to run around.  It is so lovely to see them having fun running through the hay fields and swimming in the MUDDY stream. Ana doesn’t much like the shower down when she gets home, though, but Lottie does. She is a proper water baby. They will both be going to obedience training after our holiday on the Isle of Wight as their recall needs some attention but we will get there.  

Thank you to IRR for letting us share our lives with these two beautiful angels”.

HISTORY

Gladys and Georgia are mother and daughter aged approximately 5yrs & 3yrs respectively. They are both spayed Golden Retriever x Labradors   IRR took them out of the pound and placed them in the kennels which we always use.  

They have both been health checked and rabies vaccinated so they were legal to travel to the UK where they were placed in foster together with Malcolm and Marilyn who, after their first assessment, told us “The girls have settled in to the house like a dream.  They get on really well with Cody and we feel as if they have been here for very much longer than 4 days. 

They are calm and relaxed, yet playful with their own individual personalities. Gladys is still obviously physically recovering from the birth of her last litter.  She is older and therefore more mature than Georgia and prefers to spend her time quietly and peacefully relaxing in the sunshine or on the sofa!  Georgia, on the other hand, is a little more extrovert and enjoys teasing Cody in a playful manner”.

After their second assessment we were told “The girls continue to be a pleasure to foster.  They both have delightful temperaments and have grown in confidence over the last few days. They have always been clean and dry in the house and are still calm and relaxed but happy to play with Cody or even with us though they are obviously unused to playing with toys and balls. They have been friendly on meeting other dogs, humans of all ages and especially our three young grandchildren”.

PERSONALITY

 The girls have beautiful temperaments, both of them being gentle, friendly and eager for company.  They both have their timid moments,  but they respond to gentle encouragement and reassurance and we are seeing them grow in confidence on a daily basis.

They are delightful dogs who deserve a loving home.  We feel they will settle quickly and respond well to further training whilst giving loyalty and devotion to an attentive owner.

HEALTH

Generally both girls appear very healthy, although a little on the thin side.  Gladys still has a vey flabby and sagging tummy as a result of recent pregnancy but, overall, she seems very healthy. They both have lovely coats and we know of no problems with anything else.

SOCIAL LEARNING

TRAVEL:  They are both happy and content travelling in a vehicle

HOUSETRAINING:  Both are fully housetrained

BASIC TRAINING:    They are still learning to respond to their names when called but have improved with “sit”, “wait” and “ok”. They know some basic commands such as sit and paw and are demonstrating to us that they are fast learners and will now both of them respond to wait and “OK” at road crossings. 

LEADWALKING: They will walk on a split lead as well as on individual leads and Gladys especially walks on a vey loose lead with no pulling.  Georgia is getting much better at walking on a loose lead especially when she is taken out for a walk on her own. It is easy to walk all three dogs together.

FEEDING: We are still feeding the girls separately from our own Cody and have noticed that Gladys is always the first to finish and would eat Georgia’s as well as her own if she were given the chance. Georgia does not like to eat out of a metal bowl and we believe this is because of the noise it makes on our wooden floors/tiles.

RESOURCE GUARDING:  They show no evidence of resource guarding

SEPARATION ANXIETY:  We have left them alone in the day to go shopping and there has been no trouble at all.

They sleep through the night in the same room as Cody. They do wake us up around 5.30am to be let out but then go immediately back to sleep. 

ADULTS:   They are both very friendly with adults

CHILDREN:  The girls are very friendly with children. Gladys and Georgia have now met all three of our grand children aged 2, 3 and 5yrs and have been exemplary in their behaviour.  They do not jump, mouth or get excited when visitors arrive at the house, but they do love any attention on offer. 

DOGS:    They are very friendly with other dogs. Both girls seem to be well socialised and have greeted all other dogs and humans so far in a friendly and non-confrontational manner.

CATS:   We believe that they are both tolerant of cats but have to point out that they have not really been tested in this. 

THEIR DREAM HOME

The most important thing for Gladys and Georgia is that they are rehomed together. Both girls would make superb family pets and complement each other to form a delightful unit of love and affection. They are very easy to live with, being undemanding but at the same time eager to please, gentle and keen to be part of a family group.