Sophie #4203

Sophie (#4203) is a beautiful and friendly 70-pound black lab mix with a heart as big as her playful personality. She celebrated her first birthday on January 14th.

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 6, 2025:  Sophie’s spay went well and she continues to be a happy, active girl who loves everyone. Sophie wasn’t decompressing the way we hoped after a few weeks in foster care, so Sophie has started working with an excellent trainer to help her learn tools to self-settle.  We’re starting to see the results already, and the trainer is confident she will be highly adoptable, but she’s a work in progress.  In the meantime, Sophie continues to love being with her people, enjoys her outdoor time, and looks forward to her daily walks (and is making great progress with loose leash walking).

 

January 26, 2025: Sophie is celebrating one week in foster care and all is going well.  One thing the foster is working on is having Sophie not jump up and be nippy and when she’s super excited.  The foster mom is teaching Sophie “touch” instead where she gets rewarded for good behavior.   The foster is also working on loose leash walking, and Sophie is picking it up readily.  She’s also mastered “sit” and “down”, and “stay” is a work in progress.  Crate training is going well too.  While she’s not thrilled to go in, Sophie is doing much better settling quickly to rest.

January 20, 2025: Sophie slept the whole night through in her crate without a peep. Good girl Sophie.  She also got to meet the cat.   She was very excited but it wasn’t prey drive.  It was more like “Ohh, I need to meet you.”  One paw from the cat and Sophie got the message that the cat wasn’t ready to meet her.

Sophie loves to run around in the yard and also loves her toys and has been playing by herself pulling different toys out of the basket.

Sophie also hasn’t had a single accident or chewed something she isn’t supposed to.

January 19, 2025: Sophie got picked up and driven to the Portland area to meet her foster.  She was excited but well behaved in the car, although the transporter was glad to have her tethered with a harness in the back seat as it was clear that Sophie would rather ride shotgun.  It didn’t help that Sophie could smell dog treats in the front seat!

Once back at her foster home. Sophie met the chill resident dog.  She kept trying to get him to play and he kept telling her he wasn’t interested, but she’s hoping she might win him over.

Sophie had a long day and was more than ready for bedtime when the time came.

Sophie’s Story: Sophie was surrendered by an owner who loved her very much but who has a health issue that made her unable to care for a young dog, so she made the tough decision to surrender her to GBR.  In addition to her owner, Sophie lived with the owner’s small dog and cat and did well with both. The owner even brought a trainer in to teach Sophie how to use a treadmill as the owner’s health got worse.