Foxy sure is a loving girl! Foster Mom Thea reports: ‘Foxy has been a doll… She loves my backyard and wants to be out there all the time, or on a walk. On Thanksgiving morning I took her for a 2 hour walk across Central Park — we checked out the Macy’s parade for a minute too — and she was wonderful…at home…She loves playing with her toys and chewing on her rawhide. Foxy wants petting love a lot and she is very affectionate. She did great with a bunch of strangers in the house for turkey. She loves her belly rubs and my favorite- when she rolls back and forth on her back, tongue hanging out!’.
Foxy would do best as an only dog that will gets lots of love, attention and the ever important walk time. She love humans so much. She’s polite and sometimes shows interest in other dogs on walks and on playdates but prefers the company of her people.
Posted on December 1st, 2007 by zennia
Filed under: Foxy
I am a retired school administrator who shares his brownstone home in Brooklyn with my partner, also retired, who lives here and in the Netherlands. I also board a foreign student who has one of the upstairs rooms. I have had dogs in the past; my last dog, a shelter dog I adopted when he was 2, died at age 14, four years ago. Since then I have travelled and lived abroad but have now returned permanently to Brooklyn. I fell in love with Foxy, especially after reading more about her. Would it be possible to meet her. My telephone number is 347.413.7148 or 917.676.2735.
Hi Lester
Thanks for writing! Foxy sure is a love!
The first step is to fill out an adoption application. You can download it from our site at http://nycshibarescue.org/adopting-a-shiba/. Just click on ‘Adoption Application’, fill out, and fax it back to us.
We have our potential adopters meet our Foster Shibas after both the reference check and home visit are completed.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Is Foxy still available? I have fallen in love with Shiba Inus. They seem to be the just opposite of Pugs which is the breed that kindly kept company with me for over 25years. Our Baby Zoe died at the age of 18 and has been gone for 2 years now. I will miss her for the rest of my life but it would be nice to share some quality time with a lovely dog like Foxy. Does one have to live in NYC in order to adopt from you? If not, I will download an application , fill it out, and hope for the best.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Allie
Hi Allie
Thanks for your post!
Long distance adoptions are difficult, but not impossible. We don’t mind the dog being out of our area as long as the adopter passes our approval process. We would find someone in your area to conduct a home visit. Then after your application is approved, you’d need to come to NYC to meet the dog you are interested in. We have a 24 hour waiting period after that meeting, so you’d need to stick around for a day to complete the adoption. Alternatively, we could bring the dog to you for the meeting and WE would have to stick around for 24 hours and then complete the adoption. We don’t mind doing it, but you would need to cover our travel expenses in addition to the adoption donation.
That being said…our adoption process starts when an adoption application is submitted. (An application can be downloaded from http://nycshibarescue.org/adopting-a-shiba/ ) After we review an application, we check references and conduct a home visit. After the home visit, if we have a dog that you are interested in and we think is a good match, then we set up a time/place for you to meet the dog.
We look forward to hearing from you!