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Roxanne is available for adoption.
She is 7 years old and weighs 13 lbs.
Her adoption fee is $ 750.00.
Hi, my name is Roxanne and I am new in Rescue so my foster mom will tell my story.
We had no issues in the car on our way home from pickup—she laid down and slept for a good portion of the ride, cuddling between my teen (human) boys in the backseat. She has been to PetSmart with us to pick up a few items and rides in the car wearing her safety harness without any whimpering or barking. At PetSmart, she looked at the other dogs but didn’t bark, act aggressively, or appear to be scared. She allowed strangers to pet her, and she calmly enjoyed the attention.
Her first five days here with us, she is doing well with her potty manners. She seems to respond to the cue “go pee-pee” vs “go potty.” We do two loops around our yard and that seems to be enough time for her to get everything done.
I can take toys away from her with no issue as well… unless she is trying to play with you, then she locks her jaws and play growls, but she’s not tried to bite. So we’ll need to work on the “drop” command.
She gives lots of kisses to me and my husband.
She does pull on the leash on her walks, and boy, does she like to go on walks! We walked her ½ a mile on her first day with us, and on day two, we walked her two miles and she never slowed down (she probably could have kept going!). We’ll work on leash manners.
She’s a jumper! Our bed sits 30 inches high and her first night here, she just jumped up on the bed like it was nothing. Caught us off guard and gave us a good laugh! She can get up and down just fine on the couch. We do have stairs for her to use by the bed and couch so she can safely get down.
And speaking of stairs, she navigates going up and coming down just fine on our carpeted stairs.
She’s not a barker. The only time she’s made a sound was when we put her in the ex-pen her first night during dinner—she let us know she was there! But even on our long walks, when we passed other dogs, she didn’t bark.
She is food driven, but does get an upset belly if she eats too fast, so I’ve been only allowing her to eat her ½-cup-serving of kibble a ¼-cup at a time, spaced out 30-45 minutes apart for her breakfast portion (so a total of ½ cup in the morning), and then the same portion/timing again for her dinner (for another ½ cup total in the evening). I’m also using a cognitive puzzle toy that lets me “hide” the food so she can “seek” the food for to eat out of to help her slow down, and it’s not been an issue.
She’s shown no food aggression—I was able to stick my hand in her bowl/toys while she was eating and not even a whimper from her.
She knows of the sit command, but won’t do it consistently when given the command or hold a sit. So we’ll work on that.
For training, we started “treat diving,” which is part of Susan Garrett’s “Homeschool the Dog” online obedience class. This game will teach her when she can search for food on the floor when given the command of “search,” and when not to search for food on the floor. Helps eliminate the dog from eating something off the floor that they shouldn’t. I’ve been using a portion of her daily allowance of kibble as her treats, mixed in with some yummy freeze-dry liver cut into tiny pieces. She loves this game!
We are also working on learning to love being in our ex-pen, and we’re working on learning Susan’s Garret’s “It’s Yer Choice” game, where she learns to make smart decisions and she earns a yummy treat. Right now, the choice I’m offering her is I sit next to her on the floor with cooked chicken breast on a plate, and if she sits/standly calmly she’ll get a tiny nibble, but if she does not act calmly/tries to steal the food/demands the food, etc, she does not get a yummy treat. This works on her not trying to take food/items out of people’s hands/steal food, etc.
Overall, though, we do feel she’s doing great her first week here.
Roxanne is staying with Shannon and her family in Dillsburg, PA.