Adopt Wendy

Mixed Breed · Female · Young · 2 years

Introducing.. wonderful Wendy! [Koda's sister - we would happily look at putting these 2 in a home together <3] Wendy is a worried, young dog that has had a really tough start in life. She was rescued from a Romanian shelter where she'd spent her life growing up with her brother, Bob . Wendy was offered space with a rescue over in the UK and, as upsetting as it was to split the siblings, it was believed that they could cope without each other and the opportunity for Wendy to start a new life in the UK was a rarity so it had to be taken up. After a long trip from Romania to the UK, Wendy was placed into a foster home . Unfortunately, the foster carers left poor Wendy alone for more than 6 hours on her first day and in a panic, she ripped up their lino and they immediately wanted rid! She went to the rescue that had accepted her but she was so scared and was trying to escape her areas to get to the other dogs. Wendy has only every known dogs her whole life and they are her safety blanket, understandably, she wanted to be with them to feel safer than it felt to be alone, especially after the past few days that she had just endured. The rescue said that they couldn't keep her and that she needed to leave straight away. They said she was broken and they would send her back to Romanian. Luckily, the charity that organised Wendy's travel to the UK over stepped in, they put Wendy into boarding for the night and then called us to see if we could help. We'd just had a dog rehomed the night before and so we had a space available for her. We jumped in the car and drove a 5 hour round trip to collect the frightened and confused soul. Oakwood will be Wendy's last stop now before she goes on to her forever home, however long this may take to find. So far, Wendy has shown that her confidence really grows when she is around other dogs. Although we are still not able to touch Wendy, when she is with all of her doggy friends, her whole demeaner changes and she is so much happier, she has even started coming over for little sniffs of the staff when the other dogs are there to back her up. We believe that Wendy will need to live with another dog as she completely shuts down when she isn't around one, preferably a male dog. Wendy is untested with cats. We need to work on being able to handle her and have her be confident enough to have a collar and lead on to be able to take her for cat testing. Wendy is currently quite shut down due to being so timid. She is a young dog that has a lot of confidence to gain and once settled, she could have moderate to high energy levels We believe that with another dog, Wendy would be fine to be left for 4-5 hours but time alone may need to be slowly built up. Wendy is not yet lead trained, she's still far too timid to let us attempt this yet Wendy has no form of basic training. This will all come in time once she has settled and learnt to fully trust her adopters

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