Alice
Hound Mix | Female | 1 year Old | 45 Lbs
QUICK FACTS: ✔️ Good with other dogs! ✔️ Good with kids! ✔️ Good with cats! ✔️ Housebroken! ✔️ Good running buddy! ✔️ Good for beginner dog owner! ❌ No apartments!
Alice found her forever home on January 15, 2022!
Updates
Hi, I’m Alice! I love you, even though we haven’t officially met yet. I had a really rough start my first year of life, but I have made the most of it, and I don’t let it get me down. I am the best cuddler you have ever seen - if your butt is in a seat, mine is right next to yours and sometimes on top of you if I can get away with it. I never let my humans out of sight. Most of the time I am very calm, and my foster mom says I was perfect around the babies at Christmas. I am gentle with kids and babies, and I love to give them kisses and sleep with them at night.
Here is my typical day: I wake up about 5:45 AM with my foster mom and go outside and then I eat. I play with the other dogs and cats until 6:30 when I am convinced to go into my kennel along with several toys and a couple Kongs filled with peanut butter. I hang out until 4:15 PM when my foster mom gets home and then I get to go outside, eat and play, go for a walk/run, and then bed.
I am super uncoordinated. My legs go wherever they want to go, and sometimes that means they in front of other dogs I run with or trip up the person I’m walking with. I love to run, and I pull HARD when walking until I get to run. I’m working on it, and I’m learning to heel.
I love to play with other dogs! I get a bit noisy though, partly because I’m very uncoordinated and I fall into things when I play or get excited, but also because I tend to bark quite a bit when I play.
Cats and I have a pretty good relationship, but I will sometimes try to chase or play with them. My foster mom has taught me to “leave it” though, and I’m pretty good about it.
I hate to be in my kennel. If I am in there I need a lot to do, like something to chew on, something I can pull apart, and something to lick or eat that lasts awhile. If left alone out of my kennel during the day, I’m a counter surfer. I do just fine at night which really confuses the heck out of my foster mom.
I have slept in a kennel, but I really, really hate it and it takes me a long time to settle down. After a week, my foster mom figured she would just let me sleep at the bottom of the small human’s bed (4-year-old) and I was good all night! Now that has become my routine, with with the 4- or 6-year-old humans. I love them so much!
I am super smart, and I let myself in from outside, especially when I’m hungry and I know supper is coming. If I can grab a doorknob or flip a knob and push, I’m through the door without a problem. I also like to escape my kennel. I’m not trying to be naughty, I just really hate to be alone. While I am left, I am very loud. I let everyone know I have been left alone and I don’t like it. If I do escape, I come when I am called, and I’m sweet to everyone I meet! Even the vet says I’m one in a million! I’m usually good at only going potty outside, but sometimes I will have an accident if you don’t let me out when I start to ask.
I was found starved with a prolapsed rectum. I am better now, but the vet thinks I will need to be on prescription dog food for the rest of my life. Not a big deal, and it isn’t that much more expensive than the normal food my foster mom buys.
I am an amazing, smart, super sweet Velcro dog that needs someone that is happy to cuddle with me. I love to snuggle under blankets, kiss kids, and play. I don’t like to be left alone, even if one person goes into a different room, or someone starts to walk or run a far distance ahead of me, I really fear that I am being left again. I will have a lot of anxiety the first week or two in my new home, and I need my new family to be accepting and patient with me and I will repay them with more love than they can imagine.