Additional Details

HOW TO ADOPT: This dog is available for adoption by appointment. To schedule a time to meet this dog, please email meetme@arl-iowa.org.

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– May take some time to open up around new people and in new environments, but has been making great progress in her foster home and they say she will make a GREAT companion for the right family

– Has a loving personality once she knows you and loves lounging around the house with her people

– Also enjoys playing outside and with toys with the other dogs in her foster home

– Enjoys zooming around her foster family’s fenced-in yard

– Has made some progress on potty training when kept on a consistent schedule, but will need some help from her new family to get to 100%

– Can be nervous in the car

– Mostly ignores the cats in her foster home

– Came from a situation where they did not get the socialization and exposure to the world that dogs typically get from a young age. Because of this, they may struggle with new situations, may show uncertainty with novel everyday objects, may need help understanding leashes, and will need patience and structure with housetraining.

– Has done best with a “helper” dog when it comes to learning that people can be OK, and we recommend that they go to a home with another dog

– May not do well in a busy home with young children; has been uncomfortable around very active young kids in her foster home

All adoptable dogs and puppies are spayed/neutered, microchipped and up to date on vaccinations (rabies and DA2PPV as appropriate for their age)

The ARL’s shelter software requires that we choose a primary breed for our dogs. Visual breed identification in dogs is unreliable, so for most dogs we are only guessing at primary breed. We get to know each dog as an individual and do our best to describe each of our dogs based on personality, not breed label.