Rocco

This is Rocco, an absolutely stunning lurcher who landed on his paws and found his way to SV in early 2024.Rocco was homed with us to a family, who already had a reactive lurcher in the home. We homed Rocco to them as he was such an easy, submissive boy who we knew wouldn’t react to their lurchers reactivity if directed at him. What we didn’t predict was that Rocco did end up picking up some of her nervous, reactive traits, and started to become reactive himself on walks after a few months. No one is to blame here, it’s just bad luck, and Rocco’s previous family decided to return him back to Sun Valley as they weren’t quite equipped enough to handle two reactive dogs and give Rocco the support he needed.Since coming back to us, Rocco really has been a gem here at the kennels. He loves everyone he meets, and displays absolutely no reactivity with people here. He also has a few lurcher mates that he plays with in our field. We never, ever worry about Rocco taking it too far, he plays bri...

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