Available for adoption Lowermainland/Okanagan/Sunshine Coast
🐶Dog Name: Valiente
🌍 Location: Costa Rica
🍹Best Mix: mixed
📅Approx. age: 3 years
💙💖Male/female: Male
⚖️Weight: 9 kg
🏥 Vetting
🧹Vaccines: Core vaccines up to date, applied June 2023 and June 2024
💉Tests: Haemogram 2023. 4dx negative.
🦠Dewormers: June 2024, coprologic test without parasites taken on July 2024
🐜 Flea/tick preventions: Yes.
🐛 Heartworm preventions: No, its not endemic where he lives.
✂️Sterilized: Yes
🦷 Dental check/cleaning: Yes
📺Injuries/Xrays/surgeries: Coxofemoral luxation, surgery femoral head and neck ostectomy in 2023
Behaviors
💃Energy: Medium energy levels. Gets short burst of energy through the day. He gets at least 30 minutes of exercise twice a day. The rest of the time he likes to be a couch potato.
👧🏽Children Friends: Friendly to older children. Can be reactive if he gets his tail or injured leg pulled.
🐶Dog Friends: Gets along great with female dogs. He also gets along with nonaggressive male dogs his size or less. He can be intimidated by aggressive or big male dogs.
🐱Cat friends: Usually ignores cats. He has never been left alone with one cat since he has a high prey drive and hunted birds in the past. But whenever he is with a cat he doesn’t react to them.
🥘Resource guarding: No
📣Bark/noisy: Barks to intruders and if another dog barks at him. Most of the time he is quiet.
🏡 Housebroken: Yes, however he may pee to mark his territory if he goes to a new place.
🛋Shedder: No
📦Crate trained: Yes
⛓Leash etiquette: Yes
🚙 Good in car: Yes
📚Rescue Story : In June 2023, we met Valiente. He had been hit by a car and left abandoned at the animal hospital by his previous owners. He had a severe hip fracture that required immediate attention. We couldn’t bear to see him suffer so the hospital decided to perform the surgery he needed at no cost. He was able to heal from his fracture, but still needed more time to learn how to trust again. At the beginning he was scared and hard to approach but with time, and a lot
