Willow is a 3 year old female English Springer Spaniel. She is being fostered in Gloucestershire in an adult family home with other dogs. Willow arrived in our care after being found dumped on the streets of Bristol and...
Willow is a 3 year old female English Springer Spaniel. She is being fostered in Gloucestershire in an adult family home with other dogs.
Willow arrived in our care after being found dumped on the streets of Bristol and not claimed from the stray pound.
The first day when she arrived so unsure
Meeting new dogs to make sure she was ok with them
Underweight as you can see from the pictures she was 8.3 kilos the Vet said she so easily could have died – a lot of her skin was red raw and she had that broken look about her, so very timid and scared.
Being examined at the vets
Very slowly over the weeks Willow has gained weight, her skin has settled down and her confidence grows a little every day.
Her foster home has worked so hard with her to help her understand that some of us humans are good people and nothing bad is going to happen again. Its all now paying off .
A different Willow
Willow is a lovely dog, with a lovely temperament but can be unsure at times and gets scared initially with new people and new situations. We believe she has not lived in a home environment with kindness and love so can take a while to accept new people but can be easily bribed with sausage which speeds things up and she will soon snuggle in with you.
She gets on well with the other dogs and we feel this is a must for her rehoming criteria as they give her confidence. She has learnt to travel in the car, been to secure fields where she is now starting to enjoy the freedom rather than be worried by it.
This was the video in the early days over the secure field so you can see the difference to the most recent one
and the most recent
Willow is a proper rescue dog she would suit someone who has experience with rescue dogs particularly ex-breeding dogs. Another dog is a must and a country home. An adult-only home that is not busy and can take over where her foster mum has left off and guide her through to becoming the crazy happy Spaniel she always should have been. A quiet calm home where she can feel secure.
She has changed so much
Bedtime for Willow