My name is Beanie!

Little Shy Beanie is now available for adoption. Beanie is a female estimated to be 2 years old and weighs 6 pounds. Not much is known about her but you can tell she doesn’t know how to be around humans but wants to try. She is very shy and will try to hide but will bark if she is left alone (she settles down quickly). She does not appear to have been well socialized in her formative years.  In the three weeks she has been in a private foster home she has become more confident about being out and about in the home. 

It took about 3 days for Beanie to get out of her crate area and sleep in a bed by the big human bed, however if the human moved, she ran back to her crate. She found comfort in crates with other foster dogs too. After 5 days she began coming near a human but would quickly leave and not allow pets. It was after 8 days that she (still not comfortable being picked up) did great sleeping in the big human bed surrounded by many foster dog friends. By day 11, she would come out and play/dance around with the other pups, but only if humans stood really still. Around the 2 week mark she ventured into other dog crates around the home. About the three week mark she was comfortable running around the kitchen with humans preparing food and she bed hops with excitement. It is also after three weeks of practice that we ventured outside for a leash walk in a shopping center. She still needs more practice but she can get there with the right family.

Although shy and cautious, she has done well outdoors, indoors, and around women and men. She has not been tested around cats or children. She wants to have humans around, but she scatters to hide or freezes up. Beanie requires a patient person to go slow about picking her up/coaxing her out of her crate. She does run fast and is easily spooked.

She is potty trained and crate trained. Providing a crate or covered bed is very important for allowing Beanie to have a safe secure place to decompress. Beanie is currently being fostered with many dogs of different energy levels and she does well with all of them. Beanie has been on a high quality diet from Just Food For Dogs and continues to receive medicated shampoos. She has been improving but will need to continue this lifestyle to heal her skin and her soul.

Beanie was rescued from a local shelter. The shelter has no history other than Beanie came to them right after Thanksgiving. She had greasy hair with excessive flaky skin (dermatitis) and hair loss; overgrown nails, and she was not spayed. Shelter workers began by vaccinating her, giving her medicated baths and spaying her. Based on this brief information gathered we suspect Beanie was used to breed but was neglected by those that had her in her early years. Anyone interested in adopting Beanie will need to allow her to decompress and work slowly with her to build her trust of humans and confidence in herself. She is a sweet dog that needs to learn humans can be good. If you think you can offer Beanie the best years of her life then apply today.  She is spayed, microchipped and current on vaccines. Her adoption fee is $300.