| In addition to LOVE this dog has the following requirements: | |||||
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| Entered Foster Care | Fence | Kid Friendly | Another Dog | Cat Friendly | |
| Dec 24, 2014 | Preferred but not required | 10+ | Required | not tested | |
| This is the most recent information available; however, it may change as we learn more about the dog. | |||||
Jackson is a seven year old purebred golden retriever. His birthday was 8/27/07. He is a big boy, currently weighing 103 pounds. According to the vet he could stand to lose about 10 pounds. He is heartworm negative and up-to-date on his vaccines. The only health concern he has is on his back right foot he has a lick granuloma. He is on antibiotics for a few more weeks and then he will have it rechecked. If it has cleared up he can be neutered and then be ready for adoption.
Jackson is a retired breeding boy and has lived outside his whole life. He hasn’t experienced much outside of where he lived for seven years, so everything is new to him. He is pretty shy, but loves his new life of living indoors. His favorite thing to do is to curl up on the couch, and it takes quite a bit of convincing to get him off the couch and outside to do his business. He is not housetrained, as he gives no signal of when he needs to go out, but as long as he goes outside regularly there are no problems.
He is the sweetest dog and just wants to be loved. Indoors he doesn’t approach us for attention if we are standing up but if we sit on the ground he will come over and roll over for a belly rub. When we pet the resident dog he gets a little jealous and will come over to make sure he gets his fair share of attention as well. Outside he is a bit more confident and will approach us for attention, sitting down and leaning into our legs with his tail thumping on the ground.
Jackson is making baby steps and getting more confident each day but will need a patient family that will help him continue this progress. We have seen him play with our resident dog only once, but he puts up with all of the resident dog’s continued attempts to play. He definitely follows the lead of our resident dog, and would love another large confident dog in his forever home to continue to teach him all about living the golden life. He needs a calmer and pretty quiet environment as well; lots of noise and commotion make him nervous. He is reportedly good with children but would prefer to live in a home with older children or none, as it could be too much going on for him to be comfortable. He is good about coming when called outdoors, but since he is shy and could be easily spooked, he should go to a home with a physical fence.
Jackson is a great dog, if you are interested in him let your placement advisor know.
| Golden Retriever | Born: August 2007 |
| Male | 100 lbs |
Status: Adopted
| In addition to LOVE this dog has the following requirements: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entered Foster Care | Fence | Kid Friendly | Another Dog | Cat Friendly | |
| Dec 24, 2014 | Preferred but not required | 10+ | Required | not tested | |
| This is the most recent information available; however, it may change as we learn more about the dog. | |||||
Jackson is a seven year old purebred golden retriever. His birthday was 8/27/07. He is a big boy, currently weighing 103 pounds. According to the vet he could stand to lose about 10 pounds. He is heartworm negative and up-to-date on his vaccines. The only health concern he has is on his back right foot he has a lick granuloma. He is on antibiotics for a few more weeks and then he will have it rechecked. If it has cleared up he can be neutered and then be ready for adoption.
Jackson is a retired breeding boy and has lived outside his whole life. He hasn’t experienced much outside of where he lived for seven years, so everything is new to him. He is pretty shy, but loves his new life of living indoors. His favorite thing to do is to curl up on the couch, and it takes quite a bit of convincing to get him off the couch and outside to do his business. He is not housetrained, as he gives no signal of when he needs to go out, but as long as he goes outside regularly there are no problems.
He is the sweetest dog and just wants to be loved. Indoors he doesn’t approach us for attention if we are standing up but if we sit on the ground he will come over and roll over for a belly rub. When we pet the resident dog he gets a little jealous and will come over to make sure he gets his fair share of attention as well. Outside he is a bit more confident and will approach us for attention, sitting down and leaning into our legs with his tail thumping on the ground.
Jackson is making baby steps and getting more confident each day but will need a patient family that will help him continue this progress. We have seen him play with our resident dog only once, but he puts up with all of the resident dog’s continued attempts to play. He definitely follows the lead of our resident dog, and would love another large confident dog in his forever home to continue to teach him all about living the golden life. He needs a calmer and pretty quiet environment as well; lots of noise and commotion make him nervous. He is reportedly good with children but would prefer to live in a home with older children or none, as it could be too much going on for him to be comfortable. He is good about coming when called outdoors, but since he is shy and could be easily spooked, he should go to a home with a physical fence.
Jackson is a great dog, if you are interested in him let your placement advisor know.
Jackson had a wonderful family come to meet him this weekend and he is excited to announce that he is now adoption pending! He will stay at his foster home for another week while he finishes healing from his neuter, and then he gets to go to his forever home!
Jackson went back to the vet today to have his foot looked at, and the vet thought it was looking great! He has a couple days of antibiotics left and then we will just continue to monitor his foot to make sure the lick granuloma doesn’t come back. Also, we weighed him at the vet and he has lost a few pounds, getting him down to double digits, weighing 99 pounds! Since he will be done with his antibiotics we have scheduled Jackson’s neuter for January 29th. Once he recovers he will be ready for his forever home.
Jackson continues to do well in his foster home; he is definitely becoming a velcro dog-he is our shadow following us around the house. Due to the warmer weather our backyard has turned into a bit of a muddy mess, so he has been going out front on a leash to do his business. He has been doing pretty well with this, so we have decided to change his fence requirements to preferred, instead of required. He still loves being off leash and rolling around in the snow or grass, but he could probably get used to a tie out or long lead if he did not have a fence. He still loves his walks and has gone up to two miles at a time with us.
He also has started to discover toys! Jackson really loves chewing on antlers, and has shown no resource guarding with either us or our resident dog, they trade off chewing it. He doesn’t really know what to do with the soft toys other than just hold them in his mouth for a second, but he did manage to squeak one of them the other morning. Jackson is also starting to get very curious about people food; he enjoys hanging out in the kitchen while we cook. He has not counter-surfed but he is definitely curious about whatever we have on the counters. We love having Jackson here and helping him come out of his shell but he would love to meet his forever family. Let your placement advisor know if you think that could be you!
We have had Jackson for about two and a half weeks now and he has already made huge progress from when he first arrived. He still loves hanging out on the couch but has started to explore the house more and more. He loves people and follows us everywhere. At first he would follow us but if we turned around or walked towards him he would immediately turn around and head back to the couch; now he just stops and let us come up to him and give him love and attention. He hasn’t had any accidents since the first couple of days here, and now that he has figured out that he gets to come right back in after he does his business, he happily follows our resident dog outside. His foot is also looking much better; hopefully after the rest of his antibiotics are done it will be completely cleared up.
Over New Year’s Jackson met our seven year old nephew and did very well with him, so we think he would do fine with visiting children, just not all the time since the noise and commotion is still too much for him to be comfortable. Jackson loves going on walks, and walks great on a flat collar. He will usually start out sleeping on the bed but move to the floor after a little while and sleep there the rest of the night. He also does just fine in the crate for a full workday; he is starting to get our routine and walks right into the crate without a problem. He doesn’t really know any commands but he does know his name and will come when called. Jackson is very smart and we think he will pick up on commands pretty quickly. Jackson really is a wonderful dog; all he needs is love, patience and a dog buddy to continue to build his confidence and live the golden life. Let your placement advisor know if you would like more information about Jackson!
Jackson on the right; resident Leinie on the left
