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Phoebe​ - NOW ADOPTED

Sex: Female
Age: Born around April 2015
Neutered: Yes
Size: Medium
In the shelter since: 

Microchip Number: 977 200 009 178 765

Phoebe is now fostered in the Uk and looking for her forever home here is what her foster says about her: Phoebe is an intelligent and little lively dog, she has fitted into family life very quickly so I assume she has lived in a home at some point.
She loves her walkies and sits to have her harness put on, She trotters along nicely beside you. She jumps in the boot of the car and happy to look out the window or go to sleep until we get where we are going.
She is timid of people or dogs coming towards her but happy to meet them and accepts cuddles and treats. Once she and other dog have sniffed she is happy around them. She gets on terrifically with the resident dog and does look to her for guidance.
She is crate trained but she is as good as gold left with the run of the house during the day and at night, so we no longer use it.
She is food orientated and is already learning the basics but will need further training especially recall. She will eat almost anything and has a good appetite
Phoebe is house trained and will ask to go out if the door is closed by worrying you and putting a paw on you. 

This is her Greek past:

Life in Greece for any stray isn't easy but for a mum and her babies it's a living hell. They are seen as a nuisance by most locals and face poisoning, abuse, starvation and death.

This mummy dog has six tiny puppies. Stavroula was called to see them by a man in a remote village and by the time she got there it was clear that mum had mastitis and was in agony when the puppies tried to feed.

Six beautiful pups, some more confident than others but all adorable and sleeping out in the open with their mummy. Stavroula was working and couldn't catch the mum or all the pups so she left them some food and had to leave so she called the man who had first told her about them to check up how they were. She was horrified to hear that as she hadn't taken them they had got rid of the problem themselves in what is a typical Greek way! The brother of the man had somehow rounded up the seven dogs, put them in his car and driven them miles away from his house. When he thought he had driven far enough to stop them finding their way back he simply stopped the car, threw them all out and drove away leaving them to die.

S managed to get a rough location of where they had been dumped so went off searching for them. Many KM from familiar smells and surroundings, next to a busy road she found a mummy dog so completely traumatised and stressed she could barely walk. She found six scared, cold, hungry and confused puppies.

And she did what we all love her for, she took them home to safety. Since then they've been checked over.
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. Realize 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.

Whenever 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.

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