RADAR True: Day 9 in care. True is already desexed! Phew!

[koalathebear]

True went to the vet today. Karen spent a lot of time poking and prodding True's pelvic region while Steph the nurse held her up by the front paws (i.e. True was standing on hind legs). Then they flopped her onto her back and Karen did some more prodding while Steph checked for an ear tattoo. She found desexing the tattoo. The tattoo is pretty far down and hard to spot because the ears are dark.

We are very relieved they didn't have to cut her open given that Karen said that the wound would have had to have been EXTRA large in order to get a good look around. So the lucky girl only had to be micro-chipped. She even got tested around cats today and was totally fine.

Vet was lovely - didn't even want to charge for the consult but then Dan remembered the microchip so they chipped her and charged for that.

She needs some training and exposure to more situations, female dogs, people including small children ... and she'll be ready to adopt. She already has THREE very good adoption applications in a waiting list for consideration even though we only have crap photos of her so far.

I'm still baffled why anyone would desex her, look after her (she's in good condition) and then not look for her at the pound? She's a lovely dog - no issues that we can tell so far except that she's a bit of a princess about toileting in the rain ...

Here she is tonight at Miss Van's in West Acton buying dinner with us. Miss Van's has a water dish for dogs now :)


Dogs are unimpressed they didn't get any banh mi. Blurry photo sorry :P


Elbie and True getting pats from mum


True waiting for us to finish our dinner


Here's her socialisation checklist so far.

Updated training table:

Progress Table

Behaviour	11 June	19 June
House-training	I don't think she's been in a house before but she has taken to house-training well. No accidents. She uses the dog door to let herself outside.	One toileting accident on day 2 in care
Doorway etiquette	Humans through doorways first. She is very polite.	Very polite and waits
Car travel	OK with wearing a harness and travelling in a car in a crate. Very calm, no fuss.	Still very good in the car
Mealtime manners	No food manners at all. No food aggression but has no commonsense and will approach other dogs eating. Has not been taught to wait	Learning to wait to be released before eating
Basic focus work (Watch), sit and drop	No training at all	Sit and drop. Not good at waiting yet though
Go to your mat/crate/bed	No training at all but naturally very happy to go to her crate or a dog bed or a mat	Goes to her mat, bed or crate when sent
1-2 camera-friendly tricks	No training at all	Too early
Assess friendliness/neutrality	Very calm and friendly around dogs and people. Not pushy, not aggro.	Still very calm and friendly
Assess other behaviours	No mouthing or licking. Very curious. Has some counter surfing tendencies.	No mouthing but can be a bit licky

Optional:

Behaviour	11 June	19 June
Sit-Stay	No training at all	No stay yet
Drop-stay	No training at all	No stay yet
Recall	No training at all	Comes when called
Loose leash walking	No training at all but isn't too bad on a leash	Quite good on leash
Slightly more complex trick	No training at all	Too early