“I know we have recently been in contact with you about Mary, however, we do now have an additional GSD looking for a rescue space. Elsie is a sweet girl, who enjoys a fuss. She is excitable and does act quite puppy-like, and she will jump up when you enter her kennel. She is quite dog reactive when other dogs walk past her. When tested with another dog she did show aggression towards the other dog, but showed no signs of redirecting onto the staff member. She does flinch when your hand goes around her head, and if she hears loud noises, signifying she may have had a difficult past. I have attached a behaviour assessment and a photo of her. Would you be able to help her at all?”

Elsie was in council kennels so of course we said yes. She is microchipped but it was not registered. Vaccinations will be restarted.

No young children as we do not know her history, and she will be getting careful introduction to other dogs.

This beautiful young lady will need a GSD experienced home to continue to give her the training and socialisation she seems to have missed out on please.

Update from Foster Mum

Elsie is a gorgeous girl, a pleasure to have around, she gets complements wherever she goes on how friendly and attractive she is. With people she is very friendly greeting everyone with enjoyment and interest. She is happy with visitors to the house. She has been great with all the children she has met and gets on very well with my eight year old child. She is affectionate and loves to be around you. She is bright, very alert and has picked up training commands easily. She can walk nicely on a lead (with a few corrections). She really loves playing with balls. Being she is still young, she has puppylike attributes, which is very endearing.

As far as I’ve seen/experienced so far, she does not suffer from separation anxiety, toy or food aggression. She is clean in the house. She can be bathed and showered. She was good at the vets during her booster vaccination. Elsie has been to various pubs, a local win bar, garden centres, high street shopping centres, school drop offs, she has been excellent with all new places and people. She has loads of potential.

Elise has met allot of new dogs. Initially she needs careful introduction to new dogs as she is a little fearful, once she knows the other dog is going to be friendly, she warms up after a bit and then just wants to play with them. She does have a tendency to bark quickly at a new dog she meets “up close”, then she backs away to check it’s safe.  At a distance she is not reactive with other dogs, it’s only when another dog comes close that she has become defensive. Hence, this area needs work with continued positive experiences off new dogs.

She is still a young dog, so she wants to play, which is lovely. She is not a high energy GSD, with the right level of exercise, she is lovely and calm. She gets on very well with my older male GSD. She went to a dog fun day where there were over 25 GSD’s in a field, she met allot of the dogs off lead, she was really well behaved and I was very impressed with how she coped with so many new dogs.

She has had exposure to horses and she is good around calm horses.

 

 

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Location:

Hampshire - IN FOSTER

Sex:

Female

Age:

DOB 11.7.23 (est)

Neutered:

No

Good with children:

Yes - Older Only

Good with other dogs:

Careful introduction

Good with cats:

Unknown