Tell Me What You Need in Your Forever Home --a Honeymoon story

Having confident dogs and shy dogs are two completely different fostering experiences. With shy dogs, the first couple of weeks are usually like pulling teeth to get things to happen. The dogs are shedding their fears, their worries, they are gaining new positive experiences, they are getting comfortable in their own skin. Hopefully they are becoming 'confident'. With confident dogs like Migo though, sometimes it's a bit of the opposite. The first week or two, they are great dogs. They are on their best behaviour so to speak. And then... they settle in.

In the last few days, Migo has become settled, and so, the honeymoon period is over. Migo's hidden secret is that he's a bad guarder (with other dogs only) of his toys, and has the potential to be guardy over his person too. He's given Beckett a pretty mean tell off (it's a good thing Beckett didn't clobber him back), and he's tried with Lemon --much to his surprise, she told him off fast, efficiently, and had him running for cover. (That's what you get when you mess with the female dog of the house!) He raises his lips and snarls whenever a dog is passing him and his 'toy' (really, whatever he has between his paws he thinks he has to protect or have it stolen.) But, it's better to know now!

This way, he is telling me what he needs in a forever home. He either needs to be an only dog (what I think would make him happiest), or he needs dog-experienced people who understand how to redirect behaviour. His behaviour isn't serious, but it is indeed a 'problem' so to speak. I am confident he won't become a problem to have here, and that I can work on it. But to be honest, its one more thing I'd really rather not deal with.

This isn't to say Migo is bad with other dogs (he's very playful, take the toys away and he's awesome), or that he can't live with other dogs, or that his guarding his a huge issue that can't be overcome, it's just that I think he would be happiest not having to share. To be a dog that goes and plays with other dogs -maybe even daycare-, but comes home, and has people and stuff and a home all to himself. Migo has always been one in more than a dozen, a dog that has never had individualized attention. He's different than DimSum and most of the shy dogs -he doesn't look to other dogs for guidance-. He is confident, he loves people, he is happy-go-lucky. And doesn't he deserve, after all this time, to be the only one doted on?

Of course he will stay here until he finds his home (please soon!), but it would be very much appreciated if everyone that visits this blog would please share Migo's picture to anyone they know who wants a young, active, silly dog. He is the kind of dog that can go play off-leash (with some recall training), and go to daycare, and do all those 'dog-social' things people want, but really wants some people of his own to spoil him and train him and give his mind new things to do.

Please Family, you must be out there!

PS: Zephyr says he'd like a home where he's allowed to sleep on the couch, other than that, he's not picky :)