Sheba

Sheba came to us from being in foster with another rescue after an emergency operation to save her life. She had taken a dislike to the man of the house so couldn’t stay. In her first foster home with GSRE volunteers started guarding the lady of the house, and had a few incidents of snapping at and nipping the man. This then escalated when the man of the house was bitten but this was more pain related than guarding.To remove any bad associations Sheba was taken to another foster home where the man was first to care and pay any attention to her with his wife initially completely ignoring Sheba and then when she did interact it was done slowly with treats, praise and fuss so having more than one person around was a good thing. Sheba settled nicely whilst she recovered walking with the resident dogs (lead exercise only) but wanting to chase the cats away. She was soon rolling on her back asking for fuss and cuddles, jumping up next to them to sleep on the sofa and learned to trust her fos...

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