Lucy is available for adoption!
🎁 Female
🎁 Age best guess 7-8 years old
🎁 Breed Best Guess: Javanese Cross
🎁 20 lbs
🎁 Located in South Edmonton
💝 Best with kids 10+ who can respect her boundaries and are willing to earn her trust.
💝 Fine with dogs that respect her space.
💝 Untested with cats but foster suspects she'd be fine as long as they left her alone.
Adoption Fee: $435
💝💝💝Other details:
Lucy is slowly settling in. She wants to be with people but is still wary. She is warming up to foster dad faster than foster mom.
She is starting to greet us when we walk in the door; she hangs back, but happy wags her tail. She is also starting to approach us when the other dogs are getting affection. You can tell she really wants it, too, but she's still unsure. Lucy likes toys, but doesn't play with them. She just likes to collect them like little treasures.
She does resource guard from the other dogs a bit with food and toys (just a growl or bark, no snapping) but that seems to be settling as she realizes no one's going to take it from her. Does not resource guard anything from people.
Lucy is house trained, but will also use a pee pad if available. She will sometimes cry and howl if she is alone, but does settle after a bit. No issues leaving her out while we aren't home. She sleeps in our bed, but would probably be fine in her own bed as long as she's in the room or at least close by.
She's not a fan of walking on a leash just yet.
Lucy recently had most of her teeth pulled, so she needs softer food. She prefers to eat in a separate room away from other dogs and humans. She won't usually touch her food until she's alone. She is starting to take treats from our hands, but still prefers if you set them down.
Quirks:
- Will go up and down the 3 concrete steps to get to the yard, but won't try the inside stairs. We have to carry her up and down. Also hasn't tried to jump on the couch, but did jump off once.
- Whines/cries a lot. Not sure if it's fear based or pain but it's slowly decreasing.