ADOPTED
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Hello everyone, please allow me the pleasure of introducing our little sweetie, Squirt!
Squirt is a female Corgi X that is approximately 18 months old and about 22lbs in weight. She has a golden tan colour to her which is darker on the top of her body and fades to white fur on her underbelly. The tip of her tail has a teensy tip of white fur, like it was dipped in paint. We call her helicopter tail or wiggle butt, because she is almost always wagging her tail, and sometimes it spins around like helicopter blades. Her ears most often are standing right up at attention so she can hear really well.
Her name took us a while to figure out as we wanted to make sure it was just right. We played around with a few ideas, mostly revolving around water since she loved puddles and drinking water. A lot of Google searching was done, but then Kim, the owner of Pound Dog Rescue gave us a few suggestions. I was surprised they weren’t used yet. Squirt was on that list and we thought this name worked perfectly for her joys around water and her petite size too!
Squirt came to our rescue from Northern Manitoba in search of her forever family through our friends at Save a Dog Network.
Squirt took no time to adjust to our house, it was like she was here forever. She drank water and ate her food well right from the start. Although she didn’t want to go in the crate well, she was perfectly content and quiet in there. She has only had 1 pee accident in any house/trailer we have taken her to; and that was the evening after her spay surgery. So things were a bit out of sorts for her and understandable.
She has been spayed and microchipped. She has had a few rounds of deworming as they did find that she had a different type of tapeworm that she brought from Northern Manitoba. It is all resolved now with the extra deworming medication, and we have seen a tapeworm pass through in the meantime.
Squirt gets regular crate time during the day even if we are home, just to allow for her to fully get used to it and know that it’s a safe space for her. She won’t go in it on her own or with a command, but if you place her in front of the door of the crate and say “in your crate” she will most often walk in on her own then. Squirt eats her meals in her crate and loves to dance around for her meals as she is super excited and food driven. She will excitedly go in her crate for meal times. Water is out in the main space for her to enjoy anytime. She also sleeps in her crate with a couple of blankets to make it more cozy, and she is totally content and happy there all night.
We would say Squirt is fully house trained, but during a transition period grace should be given just in case of accidents. We haven’t noticed bathroom cues, we just let her out in the backyard throughout the day and take her on walks a couple times a day too. She seems to have really good bladder control as she can make it several hours through the day and through the night without going to the bathroom. But on walks, she loves to pee everywhere and goes several times. Typically she has 2 bowel movements per day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.
Squirt loves to go for walks and can keep up with our large breed PDR alumni dog. If she gets tired, she will flop on the ground a bit like a fish
out of water for a minute or two and then gets back up and going again. We have noticed she likes to pull while walking on her leash, so we are trying to work on getting her to walk better. She also has a prey drive, and seems to stiffen up for small animals and birds with a stronger pull on the leash during that time. We try to just redirect her so we can get by and keep going.
Squirt is a super playful dog and happily plays with our kiddos (12 and 9 years old) or alone with her toys. So far she likes to play with stuffy toys, ropes, and balls the most. But I really don’t think she is picky and will advance to other toys as well.
Once she is done playing she loves to nap! When she first came to use she would always just nap on the carpet, but now has gotten spoiled and loves beds of any kind…the bigger the better! Or she likes to cuddle up to our dog sometimes as well.
Squirt is great on car rides! She will go in a crate in the hatch of my SUV, or in the backseat of my SUV alone. She usually just curls up and enjoys the drive. We have a trailer that we drive to every weekend so she has had lots of car experience. We take her on lots of walks around the park and she loves animal watching. Sometimes we notice she doesn’t relax as well in the screen room since there are so many smells and things to see, so she is usually more on alert in there. We have a crate inside the trailer where she eats her meals and relaxes in when we go out in the evenings and she is totally quiet in there too.
Squirt seems cautious around other dogs that aren’t in her household, but no issues meeting them or anything like that. She hasn’t had much experience with cats, so we are unsure on how that would go. Because of her prey drive a home without cats is required for her. She loves our two kids and plays with them often. There was one senior male that she seemed to be wary of, but everyone else she has no issues with. And I feel with more exposure that could be improved, because the 1st meeting and 2nd meeting with him we saw a big improvement already. Squirt just needs more socialization and positive experiences with people of all sorts.
As Squirt is very adaptable, we feel like the type of home she will live in doesn’t make a difference for her. We do feel that she would benefit from a younger active family that would like to keep her active and playful. A fenced backyard would be great, but having a tie-out would be ok for her too under supervision. Her forever family will need to take her for some proper training and continue to work on her leash walking skills and prey drive.
In conclusion, Squirt would be a perfect family dog with or without children, in any type of dwelling, and with lots of activity and play time in her daily routine. Another dog is not necessary, as she doesn’t seem to have issues adjusting to new routines or homes. We hope you consider adding this adorably sweet girl to your home and family!