Daisy

Hello Daisy

We have officially added one to our terrier quota.

Daisy is my lovely mother’s new dog. She’s from Hope Rescue and is 8 months old. She was originally bought as a Christmas present for an 80+ yr old lady, who realised pretty soon that she could not cope with a working type JRT puppy. I think she was born and sold in Wales, but we picked her up from Oxford. She’ll hopefully be a flyball dog, first and foremost! She will do some agility as well, and will therefore be my first Small dog, because she is a tiny munchkin. She weighs 5.7kg and is maybe 12″ tall?

Daisy

She’s only been here for a few days so far, and we’re still getting to know the real Daisy. She’s a real sweetheart, but she does like to get her own way. She’s very athletic and very fast, considering her size!

She’s more dog-reactive than I was expecting; Hope said she was fine with other dogs but sometimes “bullied” younger puppies. I can’t judge her on puppies, but so far I’ve seen that she’s afraid of larger dogs or dogs who aren’t appropriate with other dogs (which I guess includes pups?). She esculates pretty quickly from calming signals to showing her teeth/growling. This is pretty minor but has mainly been aimed at Dylan (the social introvert), who has handled it very very well (I’m very proud of him!), and it is something we need to work on. She has tried to get Dylan to play as well however. She adores Rio, and is wary of Kim. She has no reward system in place, and she only knows “sit”. I think we’ve broken her heart by not having any tennis balls, because she’s tennis ball obsessed. She has some resource guarding issues which mainly manifest when she’s feeling insecure or anxious.

She is absolutely cute as a button though. She has her silly moments of utter puppyness and she’s affectionate and her happy dance rivals Pogo’s. We have a few games of tug and she won’t be hard to switch on to that! Her recall is awesome, and she loooves her home comforts.

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