Entered: 02/27/2022
Status: Adopted
Age: 8
Color: Liver/White
Weight: 53 lbs.
Gender: Altered Female
Location: Aston, PA
Health: UTD, HW-, treatment completed for ehrlichia, treatment for ear infection completed
Temperament: Good with adults, good with meeting children 5-12 (younger unknown), generally good with other dogs, unknown with cats, fine with horses!
Original: “She’s not super-velcro but has a great Springer grin and is looking forward to her new home.”
Daisy was purchased as a pup from a Pennsylvania breeder. The first family re-homed her when she was about 1 year old because of too much energy. She lived with an older woman for the next 6 years. But after that Virginia owner went into assisted living, Daisy lived alone in her home for a year. The neighbors and basement lodger fed her and took her for walks several times a day but her life was lonely, her weight increased and the family reached out to MAESSR.
Daisy has been completely housetrained in foster care, circling and giving a minor “woof” by the back door when she wants to go out. She doesn’t love being put in a crate, but with open crates around, will often self crate during the day because it’s comfortable. At night, she sleeps on a dog bed under the table. When her folks aren’t home, she’s closed out of the kitchen but has free roam of the 3 rooms where the resident dogs are allowed.
This love is a little bit of a counter-surfer, occasionally putting fluffy paws up on the edge to look around, but she knows “off.” She doesn’t get into the trash, and other than the dog specific day-bed, she stays off furniture. Daisy loves toys but isn’t destructive with them (her favorites are stuffed with squeakers). She doesn’t chew inappropriately, dig or consider jumping out of the 4′ high fenced yard.
Daisy loves walks but tends to pull a bit especially when starting out and if in tandem with her foster sister. She’s happy to see folks and wags her stump of a tail. Offer her a car ride, and she hops right in, ready for more adventures. She’s had several visits to her foster mom’s horse barn where she just hangs out.
Used to being an only dog, Miss D. initially didn’t seem to know what to think about the resident hounds. Are they allowed to storm back in from the yard at that speed? I’d better stand at the head of these stairs to slow them down. After a few days, she began doing the “storm back in” as well. While she does not actively play with her foster sibs except for an occasional “chase” outside, she sleeps in a pile near them at night.
Daisy knows “sit,” “fetch,” and has a good energy level–mellow during work hours but ready to play and cuddle or romp around if the humans use the “happy voice.” She’s fed separately from the residents because she eats quickly and to keep her from trying to borrow food from the big male’s bowl.
The first grooming visit is still to come for this fluffy gal, but she was good at the vet and for her nail trim. She LOVES being brushed, sits for ear cleaning and is a cuddler. Other than an initial “yowl, the humans are leaving” or a “peep-peep” when gated away and the foster folks are in the other room, she’s fairly quiet. She will join the resident dogs in “Arf-arf” when family members return home.
Her only protective behavior seems to be inside the car when strangers come close. Full serve gas station attendants and the auto-repair guy installing wiper blades are 2 examples. This only seems to occur when her human is in the vehicle. She can hang out in her foster mom’s Jeep in cool weather at the barn and just watch many folks go by with nary a sound out of her.
Because Daisy can be a bit of an Alpha type gal, she’d probably do best in a home without another female Springer. She’s a good cross between “adventure-gal” and home-body. She’s quiet and flopped out during the work day somewhere within fifteen feet of a human. She’s not super-Velcro but has a great Springer grin and is looking forward to her new home.