Wall-E #4179

Meet 6 year old handsome Labrador Retriever Wall-E (#4179).

Great things about Wall-E:

• • • • • • • House trained and reliable free roam inside the home (but like many dogs he’ll find food left out on the counter!)
            • Very smart and knows many cues, including “Sit”, “Wait”, “Eat”, “Stay”, “Potty”, “Up” and “Out”
            • Healthy and up to date with vaccines and neutered.
            • Perfect for a work from home family. Wall-E is content to hang out by your side and nap while you work.
            • Loves walks, trips in the car, playtime (especially fetching a ball, which he loves more than treats!) and swimming in a lake or the ocean.

Things Wall-E needs to thrive:

• • • • • • • Someone committed to giving him regular exercise (his foster has worked hard to get 15 pounds off, and Wall-E is now a healthy 90 pounds), and Wall-E loves his walks!
            • Someone committed to continuing to work on Wall-E’s leash manners. He is getting better, but he still pulls in excitement when he sees people and dogs so he might do better walking in quieter areas where he won’t see as many people and dogs.
            • Someone to help him work on not barking when someone new comes to the door (note that the tail is wagging the whole time!), but he’s doing better and learning to be comfortable with new people entering his house.
            • Wall-E has lived with cats and dogs before, but because he didn’t do well recently with a small dog in his first foster home, we’re recommending he’d be better off being the only dog in his forever home. We do think he’d love doggie playdates, as the chance to play with other dogs will help him develop his social skills.
            • Wall-E has had a lot of change in his life, and although he is very resilient, he would love to find his forever family. His foster family has been really tempted to adopt him, but they think there’s someone even better out there, just waiting for a guy just like Wall-E. Please reach out if that might be you.

 

A little more about Wall-E’s past and medical history. Wall-E’s surrendering owner found him when he was 9 months old sitting at a shelter in Georgia where she volunteered. She recognized him as the dog of a friend of a friend, and sadly his family did not want him back. Furthermore, Wall-E had been hit by a car when he was a pup. So she scooped him up and took him in as her own. She paid for FHO surgery for his right hip, and then later when he was close to 3 years old, he needed TPLO surgery on his left leg, she took care of that too. Sadly Wall-E’s new mom got deployed and she couldn’t take her with him, and so Wall-E went to live with her mother (and that’s where he lived with other dogs with no issues) for four years. Both surgeries were successful, but all the vets Wall-E has seen over the years have emphasized that the most important thing to minimize arthritis is to keep Wall-E trim (he was 105 pounds at one point!) and to get regular exercise (walking and swimming are both helpful) to build up his muscles.

 

 

 

Adoption fee: $500 plus $35 microchip fee