Oak
Shepherd Mix | Female | 4 months Old | 18 Lbs
QUICK FACTS: ✔️ Good with other dogs! ✔️ Crate trained! ✔️ Good with cats!
Updates
Oak found her furever person on August 1, 2020!
Oak sleeps in his crate. When I get up, I immediately take him to an appropriate pee place. Then we go on a full morning walk where he can do his business. He has been practicing sitting and waiting patiently for his food. After he likes to do some zoomies on the couch or wrestle with his brother for about a half hour and the curl up and snooze on the couch. He has a few spurts of energy during the day where he usually entices his foster brother into playing, or chews on what he can find which you should make sure is a toy! Then at the end of the workday another long walk and dinner.
Oak LOVES people. He will approach anyone he can on walks and lie on his back and wiggle and jump on their legs and get super exited! I have not seen him with children, but I assume his reaction would be the same, which could be overwhelming for small children.
He has a good amount of energy! We go on at least two walks a day, he spends a lot of time playing with his foster brother and can get into trouble chewing on things if you don't watch him. He is picking up a good game of fetch which helps to tire him out! Learning proper manners and new tricks helps too!
Oak loves his foster brother! He can be a mix of timid and too nippy when meeting new dogs, so a slow introduction is a good idea. Oak has met two cats but does not live with any. He was very curious, but respectful of the cat's space when it wanted to get away, so I think he'd do ok with a cats.
I only leave him in his crate or in a play pen attached to his crate. He can hold his bladder in the crate for a few hours during the day and can make it through the night! In his play pen he will use the pee pad, but then has a bad habit of playing with and ripping up the pee pad.
Oak is a sweet boy, but still a puppy and can be a lot of work. Potty training is not nearly 100%. He poops in appropriate places (on walks outside or on a potty pad) almost always, but still pees in inappropriate places frequently.