Entered: 03/30/2008
Status: Adopted
Age: 0
Color: Liver/White
Weight:
Gender: Altered Female
Location: Goochland, VA
Health: UTD, HW-, treatment for ear infection complete
Temperament: Good with people as young as seven, good with other dogs, cats unknown
Update 04/11/08:
Abbie has responded very well to the retraining she has been going through in her foster home. She has learned that she is no longer the cute and loveable, one and only, “BOSS.” She is now thriving with someone else being her leader. Abbie will need humans committed to keeping enough structure in her life to ensure that she always knows she is not the boss. In return, her family will get a wonderfully sweet, loveable Springer girl that adores them…sounds like an easy trade to me.
Ear cleaning is not something Abbie particularly likes, so her foster mom has been making extra efforts with her ears. If Abbie lets her foster mom clean her ears, Abbie gets a piece of hot dog – and she runs to get her piece of hot dog as soon as she is done! Abbie’s foster mom has been working with her so that she can take food and toys out of her mouth. Abbie has done very well and now her foster mom can take anything from her.
Abbie is a very small Springer, only weighing about 35 pounds. There is a lot of brains and love packed into that small body. MAESSR will be requiring Abbie’s new family to complete two series of obedience classes with her to help reinforce everything that she has learned in her foster home. Abbie will not be placed with children under the age of 16. This is not because she does not like children; it is so she can get the structure and attention she needs from her new family.
She continues to get along well with other dogs. Abbie rides well in the car, loves to sleep in the bed with you, and is crate-trained and house broken. Her favorite activity is cuddling with you. Her second favorite activity is being with you.
If you are willing to make the commitment to Abbie, she will pay you back many, many times!!
Original:
Abbie came in to MAESSR with her brother Chip. They had been purchased by separate families as puppies. Chip began having some behavioral issues so his family took him to an animal behaviorist. The behaviorist stated that the behaviors the family was seeing and the testing that was performed proved that his issues were genetic and only going to get worse. Chip’s family then made arrangements to relinquish him. When Abbie’s family heard what the behaviorist had said, they were concerned that she might also have “genetic” issues so they relinquished her also. MAESSR considered long and hard about the decision to take these babies. It was finally determined that due to their age, they would be brought into foster care and evaluated to determine if they were adoptable or not.
There will be more info coming on these babies as time goes on and they are evaluated.