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Didi’s Story

Didi came into SNAFU Rescue via a breeder release.  Her breeder wanted her placed in a loving pet home and to live her life as a cherished family member. 

Didi is a sweet, active, social, outgoing, easy-going, loving, and well-mannered little Frenchie girl that loves to be near her favorite humans at all times. She is a complete social butterfly, seeks attention, and prefers to be everywhere and anywhere her foster family is.  Didi is an equal opportunity attention seeker; if she sees a hand that isn’t occupied she DEMANDS it becomes busy petting her soft fur or throwing her favorite toy.  A game of fetch is her favorite time! When her Cruella De Vil toy is present she prefers it be tossed in the air; she may be part retriever because she will bring it right back over and over!! Don’t be fooled by all of her activities… When her foster home is quiet and relaxed, so is Didi.  She will find a soft surface to curl up and take a little nap.  When activity resumes Didi is first in line to get in on the action! She will find any of her favorite stuffed toys (especially leans towards those that squeak) and will settle in for a little play session.  Didi has taken to nibbling on stuffed bones.  She is easily occupied by them.  Didi really is a people dog!  She gets very excited to see people and will beeline straight to them for some good pets. When Didi isn’t shadowing her foster family everywhere they go you can find her chewing on a bone or squeaky toy or napping. After romping around inside, Didi will look for an excursion outside. She really loves to run around outside.  When Didi first arrived at the rescue, she was a bit timid. She lived most of her life in a commercial breeding kennel and is slowly learning to live her life as a cherished pet.  Although she is gaining more confidence daily and becoming more comfortable, it is important to remember that she is dealing with a big transition and as such will need a patient and understanding family.  She currently lives with a furry sibling. Didi is overall ambivalent about her furry friend and hasn’t shown much interest in playing, although this may come with time.  She enjoys the company of her humans over that of that furry creature in her foster home and often will butt to the front of the line to receive pets.  She is not aggressive at all but prefers all the attention is all on her!  Even though Didi hasn’t asked to play with other dogs,  her foster family does think she would be okay with another dog in her home so they can show her the ropes and would also be equally okay as an only dog.   She is still learning the ways of pet life and finds comfort in being with her human, but living with one other balanced, gentle, passive dog will certainly help her continue to learn and grow into the pampered pet she’s meant to be.  As with all of our dogs, slow introductions to other dogs in the household are a must.  Didi lives with several small children in her foster home and is AMAZING with kids.  She graciously accepts their hugs and kisses. We do think Did would be great with gentle, dog-savvy, respectful children.  She should always be supervised when she is around children to make sure both she and they are kept safe.  

Didi’s foster family happily reports she is making great strides in the potty training game!  She is making fast progress and picked it up quickly!  She hasn’t learned to signal to go out just yet, but if let out every couple of hours she’s done fine with that. Her adoptive family will need to be patient, willing, and able to keep her on a regular and consistent schedule for her continued potty-training success.  Didi is fully crate trained and sleeps quietly in her crate completely accident-free overnight as well as while her foster family is at work.  She is trusted in a small dog-safe room and that is working out great for Didi.  For her safety, we recommend a similar crating/small room arrangement is suggested when her humans are away from the home and/or when she is left unsupervised, so she is safe and secure while no one is at home. Didi does not know danger and is still learning how to be a pet. Since she loves her humans so much and is quite the snuggle bug, we do think she would love to share a bed with her adoptive family.  

Medically, Didi seems to be in great health!  She has been spayed, nares widened, a dental with extractions, updated on vaccinations/dewormings, heartworm tested, microchipped, and has been given the okay to adopt by our veterinarian.  

Didi is a very adaptable dog, and we think she would do great in almost any type of home; she is a champ with stairs.  We also feel that Didi would be a good pet for a ground-level multiple-floor apartment-style home with an attached adjacent fenced-in yard as she is a quiet dog.  A fenced-in yard is necessary for Didi, as she does love to explore the outdoors, play fetch, and overall explore, and can also be an escape artist, so for her ongoing safety a fenced-in yard is required.  Work from home or a stay-at-home parent? Didi would love that!!! Otherwise, we think she’d love to go to work with her new family, as long as it’s a quiet work setting, as she prefers not to be away from her people!  If her people are not able to take her to work with them, no problem at all – she’s completely happy sleeping the day away as long as she has a warm soft blanket, and her people can arrange for a mid-day potty break for her!  Didi is looking for a family to call her very own, one with several family members to dote on her (children are a HUGE plus) and one that will offer her unlimited snuggles.  Didi has a lot of energy and is incredibly loving and friendly.  She is a complete velcro dog that needs the basics of pet life; toys, bones, soft surfaces, and most importantly a family to love her forever.  This little girl will be forever loyal and repay her forever family with unconditional love and many kisses!  

If you feel like your family might be the perfect forever home for Didi, please submit an adoption application for her today!!