Lovely Bobbi is a superb 12-year-old feminine chocolate Labrador Retriever who got here into rescue because of a dating breakup. She is in an Oldies Membership foster house in Telford, Shropshire, looking ahead to somebody to provide her an everlasting house.
Abstract: Bobbi is a phenomenal lady who is ok with canines and has in the past lived with cats and youngsters. She’d like a house with somebody round a large number of the time however she can also be left for two or 3 hours without a issues.
Bobbi is doing neatly on her vitamin and regularly dropping pounds. She enjoys stable walks the place she will have a just right outdated sniff. Bobbi’s foster carer hasn’t ever heard her bark!
Temporarily settled: It handiest took Bobbi a couple of days to settle at her foster house. She enjoys routines, meals and being with somebody.
May also be left for 2-3 hours: Bobbi would like a house with somebody round for many of the day as she loves to be with other folks, however she has been superb when left, with the resident terrier, for as much as 3 hours. When left, she lies on a canine mattress in her fosterer’s bed room, or at the cool lino close to the entrance door. Her fosterer seen this on digicam.
Nice with canines: Bobbi will get alongside superb with the resident terrier and may are living with some other canine in her new house. Bobbi is if she sees a canine when out, and if she’s off the lead will pass as much as sniff; her hackles carry however there is not any growling.
Has lived with cats: We have been advised that Bobbi has lived with cats in the past. She has observed cats whilst in foster, and been in the similar room as a cat. She didn’t react.
Used to kids: We have been advised that Bobbi used to are living with kids and cherished them. In foster, the one interplay she’s had with kids used to be when she met a 7-year-old whilst out on stroll.
The kid stroked her and Bobbi used to be at ease. We expect that Bobbi must be superb to are living with kids who’re used to being round giant canines and are sufficiently old to admire an older canine’s want for peace and quiet.
Enjoys a stroll and a sniff: Pretty Bobbi walks with out pulling at the lead. She enjoys sniffing, now not simply strolling. Off the lead she follows her fosterer and their canine (which is at the lead). Bobbi’s recall is non-existent.
She doesn’t react to her title however does appear to note while you get too a ways away and tries to run to catch up – she is simply behind schedule by way of a just right sniff! She has tried to scavenge meals that has been thrown down when off lead, in order that is one thing to be careful for.
Bobbi has constructed as much as half-hour (1 mile) of strolling an afternoon, which has been a mix of strolling on lead, some time without work lead, then again on lead. She likes to prevent for moderately some time to smell, and he or she additionally enjoys mendacity down in puddles!
Superb within the automotive: Bobbi loves the automobile and tries to get in ahead of you counsel it! She moderately thankfully jumps into her foster carer’s automobile, however it isn’t specifically top. She would possibly want a little bit of help for purchasing right into a taller automotive, or into the boot, by way of lifting her backside. She lies down within the automotive and travels in a at ease approach, quietly.
Bobbi’s favorite pastimes: Bobbi likes being along with her human and going all over along with her human if conceivable – and consuming! She additionally enjoys her 2 walks an afternoon, one within the morning and one within the afternoon between her lunchtime meal and early night time meal.
She from time to time carries a toy and parades across the human if they’re telling her how suave she is! At house she is going to practice the human anywhere they pass. If the human sits down, Bobbi will lie subsequent to them, and if she will be able to, will put her head on their foot.
No dislikes: Bobbi’s fosterer has now not spotted anything else that Bobbi is fearful of, nor dislikes. The fosterer has now not heard Bobbi bark!
Bobbi’s ideally suited house: She would like to are living with you if you’re retired, or at house many of the day, and wish motivation to get out for a brief stroll a few instances an afternoon. Bobbi is sociable with different canines, so you’ll chat with others who’re out with their canines.
Bobbi could possibly stroll additional than lately as she loses weight. Her workout has been constructed up slowly, because of her weight and a few extremely popular climate. She has misplaced 2.8 kg up to now however does nonetheless decelerate in opposition to the tip of the stroll, even if her building up in power in most cases is clear.
She is a perfect canine for somebody who enjoys a pleasant stable stroll, no wish to rush and without a time constraints – somebody who doesn’t thoughts preventing whilst she has a just right sniff!
Slumbering preparations: At night time, Bobbi sleeps at the flooring on a cover lined with a blanket, subsequent to the fosterer’s mattress. All over the day she is going to sleep close to anywhere the human is, but additionally has a mattress/cover in the lounge.
Well being notes: Bobbi is neutered, vaccinated (subsequent due July 2025), microchipped, wormed and flea handled. She is obese (lately 36 kg) however has already misplaced nearly 3 kg.
Her vitamin is composed of three small foods of dry meals of two oz. each and every meal crowned up with a large number of combined greens or chopped uncooked carrots. She has a canine bite after each and every stroll – that is integrated within the vitamin! – and has a broken-up bite on her mattress, for her to smell out, at bedtime or when left at house.
She has her ears wiped clean two times per week and as it’s concept that allergic reactions are affecting her ears she has 2 Piriton drugs each 8 hours. She has arthritis which is being handled with an anti inflammatory day by day and a Librela injection each 28 days. Bobbi has a couple of fatty lumps that simply want an eye fixed stored on them going ahead.
Extra from Bobbi’s foster carer: Bobbi is pleasant, responsive, trustworthy and delicate. A sweet-natured lady, Bobbi’s existence revolves round her human and meals! She is going to tempo round or stare at her human when mealtimes are close to and used to be overweight when she arrived in Oldies Membership care, so has been on a vitamin to cut back weight slowly.
She paces round within the evenings as she will get a bite at bedtime (and needs to speed it alongside!) – a chopped-up carrot incessantly satisfies her. She is turning into livelier as she loses weight, weighing 36.1 kg now. Her optimal weight can be 32 kg. She simply needs to be with you.
She travels thankfully within the automotive. She can be a super pub canine! She could also be satisfied to snooze all the way through the day if you wish to have/wish to. She welcomes bodily reward and wags her tail. The very best puppy!