Description
🐾 Meet Poppy – Beautiful 1 year 8 month old Cockapoo x Poodle.
📍 Ruislip, West London
⚠️ Please read everything below to see if you could provide Poppy with her forever home:
Poppy is a well loved Cockapoo x Poodle pup who is regularly mistaken as a chocolate Labrador 🥰. She has known love all of her puppy life, since my mum brought her home at 12wks old. Sadly her world was turned upside down after my mum fell ill and passed away earlier this year, shortly after Poppy’s 1st birthday.
Poppy has lived with us since then, but sadly is struggling to share her home and her new master (me) with another dog (our dog) now that my mum has gone.
Other family members have also wanted to rehome her, but due to having other pets themselves, we have made the very hard but kind decision to let Poppy find a home where her needs could truly be met.
🤎 Personality & Nature
Poppy is a confident but sensitive soul. She can be very timid when meeting new people and needs to familiarise herself with people before she feels she can trust them. Once she bonds, she is the most loyal, playful and protective girl who adores being by your side for cuddles on the bed/sofa or pottering around the house and garden as your little companion.
She can be a little shy/wary with men, but once they’ve built her trust and she’s familiar with them her guard slowly comes down. The way to her heart, without doubt, is her ball 🎾 … Poppy is obsessed with fetch and would happily play all day if you let her!
🐾 Life at Home & With Others
House-trained and clean indoors
Sleeps happily in her crate at night and, if needed, up to 3-4hrs max during the day if ever we need to go out, although this wouldn’t be ideal for every day due to the fact my mum was retired and we work from home, so she is used to being out of her crate for most of the day.
Car travel kept to minimum as Poppy can become anxious.
Loves her walks and enjoys off-lead time in places where she has lots of space to run and not too many other dogs around, as she can be reactive to unfamiliar dogs. Poppy would much rather spend time with her people and because of this, we feel she would be happiest as an only dog/pet where she can soak up all the love.
She has met visiting children and family members in our home but we believe her previous quiet life with little socialising outside her one lady household has shaped this side of her.
🌿 Challenges & Sensitivities
Poppy can be extremely fearful when it comes to certain situations. Primarily her reactivity to other dogs or human males, although visiting the vets has never been an issue. This is part of who she is, and something her forever family will need to accept and work with.
🏠 The Home Poppy Needs
Poppy can be very excited to greet you, once she is familiar with you and trust has been built, happily jumping up to show you the toy she is holding onto.
If feeling nervous, she will likely stick close to her master and quietly watch you, but she may well be persuaded into a game of ball! For this reason, we would love her to find a local home, or a family willing to visit a few times, so she can build trust at her own pace.
Her ideal home would be:
A calm, adult household (no busy family homes). Older children who can understand her boundaries would be ok.
Someone home most of the time.
An active person or couple who will give her the walks and adventures she loves, with the patience and understanding of giving a sensitive dog the space, boundaries and time to integrate into her surroundings and blossom.
If in a couple, a man who is willing to take things very slowly, knowing Poppy’s bond will come in time.
💖 In Return…
For the right person, Poppy will give her whole heart. She is a sensitive, quirky little girl who just wants to feel safe, loved, and understood. With patience, kindness, and a ball to chase, Poppy will be the most loyal of companions and deserves nothing less than to start living her best life.
Poppy is:
Spayed
Vaccinated up to date (with exception of Kennel cough)
Microchipped
Flea/worm treated
Has a crate and blankets to bring with her to help her settle in.