Ollie!

I first met Ollie about 4 months ago when I was asked to go and assess her living situations, she had recently been adopted through Willow Tree Sanctuary and was experiencing some issues in her new home around reactivity, she was living with a very lovely couple in an apartment block and Ollie had barked and lunged at dogs and people. I took her for a walk around a local dog park with her current carer and she exhibited no signs of reactivity whilst with me.

Like most dogs that go through the system, no one really knows what sort of background and experiences they have been through although I was able to find out that she had very recently been through what could be considered as traumatic experiences.

When Ollie was rescued she was pregnant and presumably a stray, Willow Tree Sanctuary took her in and found her a foster carer through out the period of her pregnancy, once she has raised her pups and they had found their homes, she had to move to the apartment block. Shortly after she was desexed she started showing these signs of reactivity, her carers said she became quite reactive towards the elevator that ran up beside their apartment.

She had a lovely life a beautiful building on a sprawling golf course but something wasn’t quite right for her there, I always thought that due to her background she was probably never socialised properly, if she was a stray she probably learnt to push people away with her vocalisation.

Unfortunately she had to move on from that locations due to these issues and we have been working with her on on a weekly basis whilst in foster care and currently due to a lack of foster interest she has been staying in the kennels at the Gold Coast Pet Resort.