Brioche

Introducing Brioche!! Brioche is just a baby at under 18 months old. She spent most of her life in a public shelter in Romania and is a very nervous girl, but already showing so much potential and you can see how desperately she wants to trust us. The video we first received of Brioche was straight after she'd just been piled on by 20 other dogs that she was sharing a pen with. Poor Brioche was terrified and had pinned herself to the back of the wooden kennel, curled into a tiny ball screaming and just waiting for it to be over, it's very likely she wouldn't have survived this attack if 2 shelter workers weren't right there at the time and hadn't have dragged her out to safety. Brioche arrived with us at Oakwood Dog Rescue very shortly afterwards and was quickly adopted. Unfortunately, 4 days in, we got a call to say their current dog wasn't happy with her being in the home and was becoming more withdrawn. We asked for them to give them both more time but the more Brioche was growing in confidence and wanting to play and interact with the resident dog, the more they were backing away and wanting nothing to do with her. Brioche was becoming very lonely and was laid by herself out in the garden for a majority of the days, it was affecting the dogs and the whole family and so, after 4 weeks in the home, it was decided that Brioche was to be returned. It's usually heartbreaking for us to see a dog come back to kennels but when we let Brioche out for her play time, she couldn't control her excitement and she started playing and screaming and doing zoomies, she was SO happy to be back and surrounded by dogs again that actually wanted to interact with her, she was absolutely in her element. Brioche gains all of her confidence from other dogs. We've never had a problem with a single dog that we've mixed her with at the rescue, she's always just so happy to be in their company. Without at least one other dog in the home, we believe any kind of progress with Brioche will be extremely slow. For this reason, Brioche will need at least one other resident dog already living in the home, they will need to be friendly and confident and want to interact with her, this is the only way Brioche will ever learn to feel safe and secure and learn how to be part of a family in a home. Brioche was very nervous during her cat test but we saw no signs of prey drive. She did have some waggy tails once she'd settled but she was nervous being in a new environment. This test, along with her cat test in Romania, neither times did we see anything that we'd be worried about with careful introductions. Children: Kids 14+. Other dogs: Yes - needs another dog. Cats: Yes.