About Iris |
- Status: Adopted!
- Adoption Fee: 250.00
- Species: Dog
- Rescue ID: 2011-048
- Color: Black w/tan
- Current Size: 80 Pounds
- Current Age: 16 Years 1 Month (best estimate)
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(3 yrs old) Good with dogs, large and small, cats, and older considerate kids.
Hey Everyone! Iris is an incredibly sweet, contemplative, bi-color female. Her exact background is a bit hazy, but I suspect there was some abuse, or at the very least a lot of neglect. Her personality strikes me as a dog who spent much if not all of her life in a crate before being rescued.
She has been in foster care since April and has come a very long way in the last few months. All Iris really wants is to feel safe and secure. She is a dream at home and is completely house trained as well as crate trained. That said, I leave her out at all times and she's never damaged or chewed on anything. She is also very quiet, in fact no one has heard her bark since came to the rescue in April. She has great door manners, and here lately has started following me room to room like a little shadow. Iris, at this point, is not a very affection hungry dog, she prefers just to sit quietly beside you and let you do your own thing. Once she bonds with you though she develops some very cute affection mannerisms. Although with a lot of positive reinforcement and allowing her to choose when to engage she is starting to realize its okay to come over for a good pet or ear scratch.
Outside the house Iris can be prone to sensory overload. When on a quiet street, or on a trail, Iris walks wonderfully. However if there's too much traffic, or too many people around she shuts down and starts to panic.
I have discovered that she adores the dog park, while she doesn't really play much with the other dogs (although she is slowly starting to show more interest), she absolutely loves to be off leash. in the last week I've started experimenting with taking her leashless on trail walks and the change is pretty amazing. She prances around like a 50 pound burden has been taken off her back and I can see a lot more of the care-free dog that I know hiding underneath her sometimes anxious exterior. It helps that she has no prey drive whatsoever, and is very responsive to coming when called.
Iris has been a very rewarding foster. She's a very low energy dog who wants to be with you, but not all over you. She's quite happy with 3-4 dog park visits or walks in the wood per week and other than that really likes the routine of home life. I think she would do great in a quiet home, particularly a rural one with a large yard she can run around in. She would do well with another dog in the house, preferably an alpha male, but probably no more than that. I think Iris will go really in the next few years in the right environment and will grow into a close companion to a very lucky family.
