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Romanian Rescue looking for quiet rural home
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HQ3b-7g9c
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Advert Type
For adoption
Breed
Health Checked
yes
KC registered by collection
no
Microchipped by collection date
no
Neutered
yes
Pet Age:
3 years, 2 months
Pet Available
2024-04-01
Pet Viewable with Mother
no
Pets in litter
1 female
Vaccinations up to date
yes
Worm and flea treated
yes
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Nala is a 3 year old Romanian rescue dog (mixed breed but we did a DNA so have breed info as it's useful for training).
She is mostly Italian Segugio, Airedale Terrier, German Sheppard, Transylvanian Hound.
We have had her since December 2021.
She is looking for a rural or semi-rural home without kids, where she is the only pet.
We have done a lot of training with her & seen a behaviourist (she loves to learn) and overcome most of her anxieties & reactivities.
She loves walks in the woods & coast, investigating smells and chasing squirrels. She loves going on walks with other dog friends and/or meeting other dogs to play or chasing squirrels. She is playful & sociable.
We joke that she is quite lazy!
She will happily spend most of the day laying on the sofa or in the sun, we suspect that when we are out she doesn't even go to the garden, though she does have access to it!
It's a common assumption that big dogs need big walks, but Nala is vert scent orientated as a hound dog & will be stimulated & happy by short walks that are slow enough to let her smell lots.
She likes it when everyone is home, though she isn't destructive when left alone (unless for long periods in the day if things are left in reach in the kitchen or bin, but I can go to work for 6 hours fine).
When everyone is home she likes to slowly take all her toys out of her basket and play with them - she really only does this when we are home, as if she is playing with us, it's a sign she is very happy.
Once she trusts people she is a big softy and really likes to just have cuddles, she is a very tactile dog - I can't emphasize how much she loves a cuddle. She is just a really loving dog. Despite being nervous of people she does go to a dog sitter sometimes and this has never been a problem.
Outside the house:
She is nervous of people without dogs and her reaction would be to run & bark.
We have done extensive training and seen a behaviourist and she rarely does this now.
Her recall is very good & she loves to please, be trained and learn things. She wants to do what she's told and is generally looking/waiting for commands.
She is fine with other dogs.
On the lead she can bark & pull, but we use rewards training (treats) to keep her focus on us not the perceived threat eg. commands of 'what's this Nala or Nala walk on, with a treat in your hand to lead her.
When we moved house this summer she started barking at the cars when we went to cross the road; literally a few sessions of crossing the road being told 'Nala wait, walk on' and being given a treat at the other side and she never does it (but does expect a treat on the other side).
During walks she will pause to wait for you or look back, at which point she needs to hear 'NICE' and then she will come to be given a reward.
Inside the home:
It is in her nature to guard the home and this is the behaviour I have found this more tricky to overcome.
It's good for her to have a safe space, she gets tired and over stimulated and will happily take herself off to bed in the kitchen/ utility/ spare room etc - she does this if we stay up late on the sofa. This space is also somewhere she can go if you have visitors and don't want to try to manage her with them - a safe space & a bone/ kongs to lick etc will generally soothe her.
She will bark & possibly jump towards guests until she knows and trusts them (at which point she'll be very over excited for cuddles). We tend to keep her somewhere else if people are over or she goes to the dog sitter - either way it's just removing the stress for her.
She has food anxiety as part of the guarding behaviour. With humans this is fine. With other dogs & our cats I always remove bones & toys, I would always feed her separately to a visiting dog. She doesn't guard her bones with us, but she does with our cats (which has lead to her re-homing).
She would be happy in a quiet home with minimal guests (or at least the same people) and minimal children visiting.
Her Background:
She was brought to the UK with her sister by a (rogue!) charity and stayed in a foster home waiting to move to her adopter.
The adopter was a family in Manchester in lockdown with 3 kids under 10. After about 5 months the family tried to rehome them.
We adopted both of them in December 2021, but weren't really given any of the correct information and had to contact the family directly.
The sisters fought quite badly (apparently this is common with siblings coming into season) which we weren't previously aware of though the previous owners had told the charity. They had a bad fight in which my ex-girlfriend got their hand injured trying to separate the dogs.
Following this we re-homed one and kept Nala.
She has really changed a lot, through training and seeing a behaviourist - the dog sitter she sees said she is like a totally different dog.
Our cat had a severe bite wound 2 weeks ago and although the vets say it could be a badger or fox my concern is that it was Nala guarding her bone.
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