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SILVER
Hi Ho Silver…..!! Away you go to be able people away – this in itself put him into
to enjoy life! conflict so all in all he was a very
Back in early summer you will recall we troubled little man.
put out an urgent call for funds for Silver, He was unable to go into an adoptive
one of our new long term foster dogs, home straightaway, so we needed to
who needed emergency treatment at a place him with a female foster home
London Hospital. Thanks to our who was very aware of his limitations,
supporters he quickly got the treatment understood the risks involved but was
he needed and recovered well. prepared to learn lots about body
Now that he has been in his amazing language and communication and work
foster home for five months and is very closely with BTRF and the
settling into his new life, we thought it behaviourist assigned to him to really
would be a good time to update you. help him start to feel safe again.
Silver came to us in a bit of a pickle. He It was certainly not all plain sailing and
was only a year old and had already in the WhatsApp support group that we
his short life experienced some very set up to enable us to stay in contact
difficult times. We never really know the with his carer was a ‘hotline’ in the first
full story about a lot of the dogs that few weeks! But we all saw he had lots of
come into our care, but what we did potential and we wanted to help him
have was a dog that was terrified of feel able to express that potential and to
men, and it was clear had actually been learn that he did have choices in life and
given very little choice in his short life that he could learn to trust humans
and as a result was very, very wary of again.
humans generally.
He was also very fearful of almost every
move people made around him and
certainly couldn’t be handled without
risk of a bite. Although he had tried to
communicate the stress he felt around
people, he had not been ‘listened’ too
and as a result he had learnt really well
that to keep himself safe his first line of
defence was to try to bite to move
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