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Booker
was surrendered to Furever After Small Dog Rescue by his owners due
to excessive barking related to anxiety. We agreed to take him
into our care as his owners were at their wits' end and we felt that
Booker's anxiety would only become worse in a shelter environment.
We believed that Booker's behavior would improve with some
confidence-building and a consistent approach. When
he initially came into our care, his anxiety level was sky-high and
his incessant barking tried his foster mom's patience. But
patience won and Booker continued to improve under the loving care
of his dedicated foster mom. After spending 4 1/2 months in
foster care, Booker was ready to find his forever home. He was
adopted by a recently retired couple in Nanaimo who are committed to
working with Booker and are able to provide him with the calm
and supportive environment that he needs in order to blossom.
***An
update from
Booker’s
family:
"Booker continues to do
well. He really is a sweetheart. Our cat, Tigger,
keeps trying to get Book to play with him but so far, Booker has
declined. It is obvious that it is going to
happen one day.
We had our friends and
their dog, Sage, over for dinner on Saturday. Booker
barked his little head off when they came in. We did a
time out and our friends ignored Booker as instructed.
It took about half an hour for Booker to calm down enough to stay
in the living room with us all and about another half hour before
he settled down completely. However, after that he sat by
Sage to get treats and they went outside together to go to the
bathroom. We were pleased at how it went.
Our other friends came
down with the flu last week so we had to put our little "meet
and greet" sessions with their dog, Mikey, on hold for a
time. Monday we had two sessions that went fairly well and
we took a short walk together on the second session. Yesterday things went well enough with the "meet and
greet" that we actually did a full walk together. It is
so great to watch Booker make progress.
In short, we are pleased as
punch with Booker."
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