clio
Sex: female
Age: born around april/may 2010
Neutered: yes
Size: large
Clio is a beautiful, affectionate and loyal 3-year old spayed female. She has some knowledge of basic commands, even responding to her name with reasonable recall, and she would greatly benefit from continued obedience training as she is quite clever. Clio has been successfully house trained and has overcome an initial chewing phase. She is playful with other dogs and has not been interested in cats when out on walks. She walks well on a lead using either a harness or a Halti head harness. She can sometimes be wary of new people but is playful and cuddly once she is comfortable with you but does not jump up on people. She travels well in a car, settling easily and has been fine when left at home for a few hours. Clio is still overcoming her fears of new sounds and each few days, a new hurdle is passed. For example, she is now fine with the television, vacuum cleaner, knocks at the door, cars, etc. Clio is fine with being bathed and groomed. She has been overwhelmed and fearful in her only encounter with young, boisterous children and all their toys. My personal feeling is that she would do well in a quiet home with or without older children or other dogs. I think it would take a calm, patient and experienced dog owner to take her in an urban environment due to her barking and growling at new sounds.
Age: born around april/may 2010
Neutered: yes
Size: large
Clio is a beautiful, affectionate and loyal 3-year old spayed female. She has some knowledge of basic commands, even responding to her name with reasonable recall, and she would greatly benefit from continued obedience training as she is quite clever. Clio has been successfully house trained and has overcome an initial chewing phase. She is playful with other dogs and has not been interested in cats when out on walks. She walks well on a lead using either a harness or a Halti head harness. She can sometimes be wary of new people but is playful and cuddly once she is comfortable with you but does not jump up on people. She travels well in a car, settling easily and has been fine when left at home for a few hours. Clio is still overcoming her fears of new sounds and each few days, a new hurdle is passed. For example, she is now fine with the television, vacuum cleaner, knocks at the door, cars, etc. Clio is fine with being bathed and groomed. She has been overwhelmed and fearful in her only encounter with young, boisterous children and all their toys. My personal feeling is that she would do well in a quiet home with or without older children or other dogs. I think it would take a calm, patient and experienced dog owner to take her in an urban environment due to her barking and growling at new sounds.
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You are interested in this dog? You would like some more information?
Be aware of the fact that the information is based on where our dogs are staying right now, which is the shelter. It could be in a kennel, it could be on a terrain. Usually we do not know very much of the dogs.
FAQ is 'can this dog be with children?' And 'how is this dog with cats?' Or 'can the dog go for a ride in the car?', these are all questions which are being answered from this situation and this is not easy to answer.
Being nice with children in the shelter is a whole lot different than being together with children for 24 hours a day.
If a dog doesn't chase cats, it means they don't chase cats there. Being nice with the other dogs is also in this situation in the shelter. This basically means that there is a big possibility that a dog can learn to live with children, cats and other dogs. But people must be willing to teach the dog and train him/her.
Children can be best fiends with dogs but it doesn't go all naturally. Both dog and child will have to learn this. Small children and dogs don't understand each other: like a child pulls the dog's tail, hurts the dog and starts smiling, dog makes a play bow and scares the child and the child cries.
This means parents have a job and responsibility in this: teach the child to respect the dog, as living sentient being and not as a toy!
More important is to know if the dog is looking for contact with people, has a bonding with people. You must know that most of our dogs have been under a lot of stress. They spend most of the day with other dogs, and over all they will probably know better to communicate with dogs than with people.
For the happiness of these dogs there are some essentials which are rest, safety, being clear and a reference, like another dog or human.
Be aware the dog may not be potty trained.
A dog doesn't talk but he does communicate through his body. And if we humans are able to understand him, it will save a lot of frustration. A very good book to learn about dog body language is 'Calming signals' by Turid Rugaas.
A dog learns and learns through his entire life. It is up to us to teach him.
Be respectful to your dog and he will be respectful to you. Be patient and let him be dog. Realise that the dogs observes you and sees everything. Learn to understand your dog. And if your dog does something wrong to you, think for yourself and try to figure out which signals you were giving him. A dog is what you make of it.
Whenerver you decide to adopt one of our dogs, we can't say in advance when the dog will be coming. Of course we try to make this happen as fast as possible, but there are different factors which we are depending on.
Text: Dierenhulp Zonder Grenzen
Be aware of the fact that the information is based on where our dogs are staying right now, which is the shelter. It could be in a kennel, it could be on a terrain. Usually we do not know very much of the dogs.
FAQ is 'can this dog be with children?' And 'how is this dog with cats?' Or 'can the dog go for a ride in the car?', these are all questions which are being answered from this situation and this is not easy to answer.
Being nice with children in the shelter is a whole lot different than being together with children for 24 hours a day.
If a dog doesn't chase cats, it means they don't chase cats there. Being nice with the other dogs is also in this situation in the shelter. This basically means that there is a big possibility that a dog can learn to live with children, cats and other dogs. But people must be willing to teach the dog and train him/her.
Children can be best fiends with dogs but it doesn't go all naturally. Both dog and child will have to learn this. Small children and dogs don't understand each other: like a child pulls the dog's tail, hurts the dog and starts smiling, dog makes a play bow and scares the child and the child cries.
This means parents have a job and responsibility in this: teach the child to respect the dog, as living sentient being and not as a toy!
More important is to know if the dog is looking for contact with people, has a bonding with people. You must know that most of our dogs have been under a lot of stress. They spend most of the day with other dogs, and over all they will probably know better to communicate with dogs than with people.
For the happiness of these dogs there are some essentials which are rest, safety, being clear and a reference, like another dog or human.
Be aware the dog may not be potty trained.
A dog doesn't talk but he does communicate through his body. And if we humans are able to understand him, it will save a lot of frustration. A very good book to learn about dog body language is 'Calming signals' by Turid Rugaas.
A dog learns and learns through his entire life. It is up to us to teach him.
Be respectful to your dog and he will be respectful to you. Be patient and let him be dog. Realise that the dogs observes you and sees everything. Learn to understand your dog. And if your dog does something wrong to you, think for yourself and try to figure out which signals you were giving him. A dog is what you make of it.
Whenerver you decide to adopt one of our dogs, we can't say in advance when the dog will be coming. Of course we try to make this happen as fast as possible, but there are different factors which we are depending on.
Text: Dierenhulp Zonder Grenzen