11/16/2019 Webster Bio
Webster came to TIGR in Aug, 2016, from a puppy mill/ hoarding situation, living in deplorable conditions with little human contact.
After three years in foster care, Webster is learning to be held, petted and playful! He hangs out on the sofa with his people and other dogs. He loves playing chase in the back yard with his dog friends. He is still shy around people and doesn’t warm up to strangers quickly.
He will allow hugs and to be held, but you must get past his initial fight-or-flight response and really wrap your arms around him.
Webster needs a special situation to call his forever home. He will not be for a first time dog owner or even a first time Iggy owner. He needs to have someone that has had experience with rescued mill dogs and dogs that are fearful of people.
For more information, contact iginfo@txigrescue.org
UPDATE 04/18/2019
Webster is becoming a little more trusting. He doesn't run everytime we enter the room. He lays on the sofa with us most of the time. He is still very shy with new people and very hard to handle/pick up. We do pick him up to do nails and give baths, but he struggles so much that it takes my husband to hold him.
He enjoys going outside with the rest of the gang and will come in when they do, but needs coaching to cross the threshold and will run if the door moves in the least.
He will require a very patient home that will allow him to be himself and not force him to love them back. He absolutely needs other IGs to learn from. He will likely be skittish the rest of his life.
If you are Webby's special someone, please see our adoption process and application at www.txigrescue.org
Eyes wide with wonder and yearning to trust, Webster’s world is warmest and most secure when he’s snuggling on the sofa for much of the day with the other dogs in his foster home. Having come from a puppy mill with little human contact, the patient nurturing of his fosters have slowly but surely been luring him out of his shell. Still skittish at the slightest touch, once past his initial resistance, he’ll allow his fosters to pet him briefly and to hug him, arms wrapped tightly around him, several times a day. He’ll also allow them to pick him up and carry him -- with a firm, strong grip -- to another room to eat and outdoors to potty, while indoors he uses pee pads. With so far still to go and so much of life still to live, what Webster needs now are patient and loving adopters, highly experienced with former mill dogs and their fears, who are committed to bringing him fully out of the darkness and into the light.
April 30, 2024, 1:14 am
