Chad continues to do great in his foster home, he is such a good boy. Earlier this month, Foster mom Irma ‘gave him a bath and he was FABULOUS! No Shiba scream, no scratching- he was an angel’. She brushes him at the dog run where ‘he sits down like a furry gentlemen and welcomed the brushing’.

He’s ready for the perfect forever home- one that has a friendly female dog for him to be best friends with!

Posted on July 10th, 2007 by zennia
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Chad is doing really well in foster care and we’re getting a good idea of what his perfect forever home should look like.

For the first week that he was with us, he didn’t show any signs of separation anxiety at all. His previous owners had warned us that he has accidents inside when left alone - even if only for a very short time! For the first four days, he went willingly into his crate when his foster mom had to go to work and seemed perfectly happy when she left and when she returned. However, after a wonderful four day weekend spent at the beach with his foster mom, a friend, and 3 other dogs, he’s now showing signs of anxiety when left alone. He went under the bed once when it was time to go in his crate and had a couple accidents in his crate that day and the next. The good news though is that he and the resident dog have become such good friends already that we’ve decided to stop crating him during the day. Our hope is that when he is free to snuggle with his doggie friend, he won’t be anxious about his human friend being away.

Although Chad is wonderfully well-behaved, healthy, neutered, and up-to-date on all of his vaccinations, he is not available for adoption quite yet. We want to figure out what it will take to avoid his separation anxiety, before we choose a home for him.

Posted on May 30th, 2007 by jenna
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Chad recently turned six years old. He is healthy and neutered and VERY sweet. When I went to pick him up, he snuggled up next to me like he’d known me for years. Chad has been very well taken care of… our first foster dog that we know actually had a really good life before coming to us. His owners were very conflicted about giving up such a great dog, but they were afraid their young toddler was going to torment him past his tolerance level and they were very stressed all the time trying to watch Chad and the toddler and keep them apart. Chad wasn’t getting the kind of play time and freedom at home that he had all his life and his owners decided it just wasn’t fair to him.

Chad won’t be available for adoption immediately. We’ve been told he has some separation anxiety issues, so we’re going to take some extra time to evaluate him and decide what the best home situation for him will be. He’s being fostered with a resident dog now and we’re thinking he should be adopted by someone that has a sweet, female dog to keep him company when they can’t be home.

One of my partners, Lily, spent some time with Chad on Sunday and this is what she said:

"Chad seemed shy, but after a few minutes he suggested we play tug by pushing a stuffed toy on my lap. So I tugged, then he tugged harder, then me, and it was ON. He was sliding across the hardwood floor as I was pulling the toy with him. From one side of the apartment to the other, we were sliding across the floors and it was fun! LOL! When I was tired and dropped the stuffed duck toy, Chad wanted to play again."

More about Chad to come soon!

Posted on May 23rd, 2007 by jenna
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