Simba

Hi I'm Simba and I am six years old. When I am with you I am a happy little guy who loves to curl up in your lap and follow you to bed if you let me. I will be friends with everyone who comes to your home, or, who you take me to visit.

I didn't live with another dog but am now fostered with one and things are going fine. Once I make friends then I've made friends. It's better if we can get to know each other off lead though. I like to go for walks but if I get distracted I develop this funny thing called 'selective deafness'.

I am very good at doing all those odd things humans ask me to like, sit, lay down and shake for treats. I don't know what they are for but I am happy to oblige. Like lots of dogs, I do not like storms and fireworks but fi you are with me I can be calmer.

So now to the reason I am looking for a new home in middle age. My family were so important to me that I started to get scared when they went anywhere. So when I got scared, I could smell that they were scared and that meant I got more scared, so that in the end, I ran out of the house and into the car and then I used my angry voice to say, 'Please don't leave me alone.' I can even scale low fences to try to find you so you will need to have a very secure yard to keep me safe.

My family were really sad to let me go but they knew they couldn't help me and want me to be happy so now I am looking for you. You need to be home almost all the time. You need to want me close to you a lot! It's not healthy for me to be so scared so you also need to be able to leave me when you have to and maybe do some learning about how to reduce my fear. You need to not be scared if I use my angry voice when I am scared.

If you can do these things then we can be best friends and spend lots of wonderful times together keeping each other loved and happy.