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About Dakota
We are looking for a ✨very special✨ foster or foster-to-adopt home for our big girl, Dakota, to help her settle back into home life and allow us to learn more about her outside of the shelter. To ensure that Dakota's second chance is as successful as it can be, we will be *very* specific about the type of home Dakota will be going to.
Please read below for more information about our gorgeous Dakota (AKA Scary Spice):
😄The Good Stuff😄
🐾Lovely confident girl in the environment - haven't found anything that phases her yet, including trucks, trains, forklifts, and heavy traffic
🐾Loves exercise and also has an excellent off switch
🐾Good leash skills and enjoys walks
🐾Loves the car and travels fantastically
🐾Comfortable with her own company and loves to snooze in the sun
🐾Loves her food and is very willing to train - knows sit, drop, shake, touch, 'Look' and 'Watch', and is learning spin and rollover
🐾Sociable with dogs of all sizes, however, is tense and sometimes reactive with entire females
🐾Super big cuddly bear with her people - check out her 'blep face' in the photos
🐾Has a history of being good with small children, however, we WILL NOT place her in a home with children due to her reactivity with unfamiliar people
❗️Not so good stuff❗️
🐾Strong guarding instincts! In her previous home, Dakota would not allow unfamiliar people in her yard or house without her owners present. She is doing much the same here at SCAR, earning her the nickname 'Scary Spice' due to her antics while in her kennel
🐾Dakota is naturally standoffish with strangers and has displayed some reactivity towards unfamiliar people while in the welfare system. While this hasn't been an issue for us on street walks, she requires some specific management in close quarters with unfamiliar people and we have worked hard on cooperative care with Dakota in order to complete her vet work.
🐾 No cats please!
📋Requirements📋
🐾A large, secure yard where Dakota can sleep in the sun, chase her ball, and enjoy some outside time.
🐾An adult-only home willing to manage Dakota's introductions to new people (including themselves!) under our guidance
🐾Observant and kind humans experienced with and comfortable managing guard breeds and in using reinforcement-based training methods
If you would like to foster Dakota to help us learn more about her so we can find her the best home for her needs, or if you think you and your home might be just what Dakota is looking for - get in touch with us either by calling our shelter on 0393570834
or emailing us via adoption@secondchanceanimalrescue.com.au
This pet has been adopted and found love with its new family.
The rescue group has removed this pet and it is no longer available for adoption.
The rescue group is no longer taking adoption applications for this pet.