07-11-2019 - Isabella is a very scared girl who has come to us from a breeder. She does not like to be picked up and she can be easily startled. Isabella will need an experienced home that has at least one onther kind resident dog to be her friend and show her new skills like house training. Her new home will need to be a calm quiet environment t without children o help her her confidence with people.

04-05-21 UPDATE

Isabella has been waiting for her forever family to find her for over a year now which is extremely sad. She is a very special girl who deserves and needs to find a very special family and home. She will be a project dog for her future adopters. She is a very special girl with particular needs. She needs to be homed with a larger playful, but laid back dog, who is used to, and likes smaller playful dogs. Her adopters will need to have had experience with very frightened ex breeders - those difficult to handle.
Isabellas adopters will need to be fully aware that she is exceptionally difficult to groom and currently has to be sedated at the Vets to be groomed. Her new owners will need to continue her counter conditioning in regards to this.
Isabella is a small shihtzu with the biggest of personalities! When she eventually learns to trust, she is the most loyal, loving, fun, hilarious, playful girl in the World.
Isabella has had many applications over the last year but she really is looking for a very specific, very experienced home. Sadly unless you have the right environment for this little dog we wont be able to proceed with your application but if you do then please include as much detail as you can on your application and we can then get you to discuss Isabella further with her fosterer.

25-05-21 UPDATE

Isabella has been on her holibobs just recently. She had a wonderful time, although the weather was mostly terrible! She's wondering if the weather in England is better? - and if so her foster mum will travel to do a meet and greet with her potential forever family.
Anyway ... Little Izzy-Bizzy had a fantastically fun time at the beach - she loves a quiet beach where there's not many people around - and loves to run around (obviously on lead) and sniff, explore and chase her big foster brother!
She has a new favourite toy - a colourful fish teddy which she carries around in her mouth. While her breakfast is prepared Izzy often enjoys batting her toys around the hallway. I have to keep her separate from my smaller dogs when feeding, but she is happy for her big foster brother to be close to her.
Isabella has also had her first doggy ice cream at the beach which she thoroughly enjoyed! She has also been busy with a few frozen stuffed kongs which adds some enrichment to dogs lives. Again she is kept separate from the other dogs and is crated when she has a kong.
Isabella is so hoping her forever family finds her very soon. She has just 3 wishes - for her Mummy and Daddy to be experienced with very scared dogs, for her forever furry friend to be a bigger male dog, and to be loved unconditionally.
If you have the right set up for this very special little lady - please apply. Isabella has waited so long now.

30-06-21 UPDATE

Isabellas most recent achievement to date has been allowing her foster mummy to groom / shave her a little each day. Because Isabella really is not comfortable with this sort of human contact, she wears a cone for her protection and for her fosterers protection. We have been doing just a couple of minutes each day so as not to stress Izzy out to much. This is in the hope that Isabella may be one step closer to not having to take a trip to the vets for sedation to be groomed.
She has been loving the sunshine and has been shade bathing on lots of comfy beds outside. She has a new favourite toy - a little dinosaur which she loves and often carries around in her mouth! Isabella loves her toys including balls!
Isabella is still looking for a home where the owners are experienced in very scared dogs. Her new owners will need to spend a lot of time gaining this ladys trust .... And once she settles, her new owners will need to be able to manage Isabellas behaviour around other dogs, so for this reason we are still looking to home her with a larger dog who is used to small dogs with attitude! And for her owners to be around most the day.
If you like the look of Isabella, and have plenty of experience and understanding, and match her criteria, please fill in an application form because she's been waiting a very long time indeed.  

16-08-21 UPDATE

Isabella has unfortunately been waiting for her perfect forever family to find her for quite some time now which is extremely sad indeed. She is still looking for a very special, specific home, where the owners are experienced in very scared dogs. Her new owners will need to spend a lot of time gaining this ladys trust. She will be a project dog for someone.
Once she settles, her new owners will then more than likely need to be able to manage Isabellas behaviour around other dogs in the home environment ... so for this reason we are still looking to home her with a calm, relaxed, larger dog who is used to small dogs with attitude! Her owners will need to be around a lot of the day, but if needed Isabella can be crated, or better still, put in a doggy play pen if her owners needed to pop out and needed to leave Isabella at home without having any worries.
Recently, Isabella has been doing a lot of socialising with other dogs as well as humans! It is fair to say she is much better behaved around larger, calmer dogs, even more so in the home environment, but she can go on walks etc with other little dogs. If her foster mum is close by, Isabella will find enough courage to take treats from other humans! She does however become rather frantic and terrified around humans if her foster mum wanders off into another room or something.
Isabella is an extremely loyal, loving, fun girl once she relaxes around her human friends, but that has taken and will take a lot of work.

08-11-21 UPDATE


A little update on Isabella and what she's been up to recently... Please read the update carefully as Isabella does require a very special home.
We recently took Isabella to a pumpkin patch over the Halloween period for a little afternoon out for her to experience something a little different. We were only there for an hour but she was absolutely shattered from the experience! Despite being with me the whole time me, she did revert back to being quite worried and frightened of the few people that were near by so I obviously had to be very aware of her reactions and behaviour incase she felt the need to run away. However, she was curious with the farms cows! And had a little wander around the pumpkin patch! She fell asleep in my arms on the way home and enjoyed playing with her pumpkin teddy when we got in. Isabella wasn't very scared by Firework night at all, and followed her best doggy friends lead by barking at them a little and telling them off! She is looking forward to receiving lots of toys for Christmas, but would love it even more if she found her forever home beforehand.
Isabella has unfortunately been waiting for her perfect forever family to find her for a long while now. She is still looking for a very special, specific home, where the owners are experienced in very scared dogs. Her new owners will need to spend a lot of time gaining this ladys trust. She will be a project dog for someone. Once she does gain her new Mummy's trust, she will prove one exceptionally loyal and loving girl. Her favourite thing in the whole world is wrestling her foster mummy's arms, playing with toys, and eating and being given food treats as well as new toys to rag about!
Once Izzy settles in her new home, her new owners will then quite possibly need to manage Isabellas behaviour around other dogs in the home environment ... so for this reason we are still looking to home her with a calm, relaxed, larger dog who is used to small dogs with attitude! Her owners will need to be around a lot of the day, but if needed Isabella can be crated, or better still, put in a doggy play pen if her owners needed to pop out and needed to leave Isabella at home without having any worries.
Isabella's foster mum will be able to offer support all the way through her adoption and settling in process.

11-01-22 UPDATE

Isabella has waited SO long for her forever family to find her. It's really sad that she's still waiting - that she isn't in her perfect forever home, living up to her true potential, living her best life already. All she dreams and hopes for is to have owners who can give her lots of attention, who are going to be understanding and patient with her, and have experience with ex breeders, as well as just one / two big brothers or sisters to act as a guide/support to help her trust her forever family, and help settle her into her new home environment.
Apart from being a very frightened dog when you first meet her - one of the most scared and reactive dogs who've ever been rescued by Many Tears, another main reason why Isabella has waited for so long to be adopted is the fact that not one family with a much bigger dog has applied for her. The reason we'd like Isabella to go to a big dog home is, although she has been socialised with all dogs, she is "naughty" with smaller/more vulnerable dogs, and managing her in a home environment around smaller dogs is extremely difficult and not something that you would want to do forever. Isabella is SO much happier and better behaved if she is only around my male collie cross, or around my partner's German shepherd. She loves to chase the bigger dogs around the garden, quite likes to cuddle up to them on occasion, but most of all she likes it if they are very laid back, give her space, and ignore her feisty shihtzu attitude! Everything has to be on her terms! To put it nicely, she is just too "bossy" towards my beagles and smaller dogs.
Isabella had a nice Christmas. Even though she has been a naughty little girl all year, Santa still visited her, and although she didn't get the forever home she wanted, she did love the presents in her stocking, especially a small bouncey rubber blue ball, a cuddly giraffe teddy and some venison treats.
We are all really hoping someone very special comes along, and adopts this very special, funny, feisty, little madam very soon! She doesn't require much exercise... A good little run around the garden and a small little walk would be great. More than anything, she loves to have a few really good, full on wrestling matches with your arms and hands a day, and a play with some toys! Isabella is crate trained and housetrained too. So ... If you are looking for a bit of a challenge, a project dog, and have one or two big dogs, then look no further than this little lady. The hard work will be worth it! She really is one in a million.

06-06-22 UPDATE

The reason Isabella has waited for a very long time for her forever family is because she is a very scared little lady who requires a lot of work, and because she wouldn't like to share a home with smaller dogs.
Isabellas requirements for her forever home are as follows :

• Ideally just one/two LARGER dogs...
  Isabella is happier, more comfortable and better behaved around just one or two larger dogs. She feels she has to fight for attention in a pack environment, and once she eventually trusts her owner, she loves receiving a lot of attention! If she wasn't such a scared girl, she would make a perfect only dog, but unfortunately she is terrified of new people. Isabella does need quite a lot of attention from her owner to thrive, and be fully happy and content.
• Adopters who've had EXPERIENCE of very scared dogs, and who want a project dog.
• Her main carer being physically very able and the one to take her for walks.

Recently, Isabella has enjoyed a few adventures and her new favourite place seems to be a little forest with a stream running through it! She hasn't much stamina for very long walks but absolutely loves exploring new places, and feels super special in herself when she goes on days out!  

09-09-22 UPDATE
Isabella has been in foster with me for a long while now, in the hope that her PERFECT forever family will come across her. She hasn't had a lot of interest though, and has actually had no interest at all recently, which is very sad... I really thought her perfect family would find her.
Isabella is happy with her little routines, with people and in situations that are familiar, but reverts back to being a very worried and frightened girl in new situations and surroundings.
She loves going for little walks, doesn't need big walks or the sort of exercise that requires a lot of stamina! - she seems happy with one walk a day. Instead Isabella is the sort of dog who has bursts of energy and loves a run around the garden. She loves to play - chasing her larger foster collie brother around, throwing and batting toys around, and play wrestling with her foster mum and dads arms until she's completely out of breath!
Just recently Isabella has enjoyed a trip to her local beach and enjoyed climbing rocks & paddling in shallow pools of water... She became quite scared when the water became a little deeper though bless her.
Isabellas adopters must understand that Isabella requires a lot more work needing be put in than the average ex breeder... (Please read  previous updates for a little more information).
Ideally she would like to be homed with one/two larger dogs... She is better behaved around larger dogs - She feels she has to fight for attention in a pack environment, and once she eventually trusts her owner, she loves receiving a lot of attention! If she wasn't such a scared girl, she would make a perfect only dog, but unfortunately she is terrified of new people and situations... Isabella does need quite a lot of attention from her owner to thrive, and be fully happy and content. Ideally, her adopters will have experience and plenty of understanding of very scared dogs, and would like a project dog.

14-01-23 UPDATE 
Isabella is still waiting patiently for her forever home. Please read her page carefully and if you think you are the right home for this beautiful but complex girl please complete her adoption form

07-11-2019 - Isabella is a very scared girl who has come to us from a breeder. She does not like to be picked up and she can be easily startled. Isabella will need an experienced home that has at least one onther kind resident dog to be her friend and show her new skills like house training. Her new home will need to be a calm quiet environment t without children o help her her confidence with people.

04-05-21 UPDATE

Isabella has been waiting for her forever family to find her for over a year now which is extremely sad. She is a very special girl who deserves and needs to find a very special family and home. She will be a project dog for her future adopters. She is a very special girl with particular needs. She needs to be homed with a larger playful, but laid back dog, who is used to, and likes smaller playful dogs. Her adopters will need to have had experience with very frightened ex breeders - those difficult to handle.
Isabellas adopters will need to be fully aware that she is exceptionally difficult to groom and currently has to be sedated at the Vets to be groomed. Her new owners will need to continue her counter conditioning in regards to this.
Isabella is a small shihtzu with the biggest of personalities! When she eventually learns to trust, she is the most loyal, loving, fun, hilarious, playful girl in the World.
Isabella has had many applications over the last year but she really is looking for a very specific, very experienced home. Sadly unless you have the right environment for this little dog we wont be able to proceed with your application but if you do then please include as much detail as you can on your application and we can then get you to discuss Isabella further with her fosterer.

25-05-21 UPDATE

Isabella has been on her holibobs just recently. She had a wonderful time, although the weather was mostly terrible! She's wondering if the weather in England is better? - and if so her foster mum will travel to do a meet and greet with her potential forever family.
Anyway ... Little Izzy-Bizzy had a fantastically fun time at the beach - she loves a quiet beach where there's not many people around - and loves to run around (obviously on lead) and sniff, explore and chase her big foster brother!
She has a new favourite toy - a colourful fish teddy which she carries around in her mouth. While her breakfast is prepared Izzy often enjoys batting her toys around the hallway. I have to keep her separate from my smaller dogs when feeding, but she is happy for her big foster brother to be close to her.
Isabella has also had her first doggy ice cream at the beach which she thoroughly enjoyed! She has also been busy with a few frozen stuffed kongs which adds some enrichment to dogs lives. Again she is kept separate from the other dogs and is crated when she has a kong.
Isabella is so hoping her forever family finds her very soon. She has just 3 wishes - for her Mummy and Daddy to be experienced with very scared dogs, for her forever furry friend to be a bigger male dog, and to be loved unconditionally.
If you have the right set up for this very special little lady - please apply. Isabella has waited so long now.

30-06-21 UPDATE

Isabellas most recent achievement to date has been allowing her foster mummy to groom / shave her a little each day. Because Isabella really is not comfortable with this sort of human contact, she wears a cone for her protection and for her fosterers protection. We have been doing just a couple of minutes each day so as not to stress Izzy out to much. This is in the hope that Isabella may be one step closer to not having to take a trip to the vets for sedation to be groomed.
She has been loving the sunshine and has been shade bathing on lots of comfy beds outside. She has a new favourite toy - a little dinosaur which she loves and often carries around in her mouth! Isabella loves her toys including balls!
Isabella is still looking for a home where the owners are experienced in very scared dogs. Her new owners will need to spend a lot of time gaining this ladys trust .... And once she settles, her new owners will need to be able to manage Isabellas behaviour around other dogs, so for this reason we are still looking to home her with a larger dog who is used to small dogs with attitude! And for her owners to be around most the day.
If you like the look of Isabella, and have plenty of experience and understanding, and match her criteria, please fill in an application form because she's been waiting a very long time indeed.  

16-08-21 UPDATE

Isabella has unfortunately been waiting for her perfect forever family to find her for quite some time now which is extremely sad indeed. She is still looking for a very special, specific home, where the owners are experienced in very scared dogs. Her new owners will need to spend a lot of time gaining this ladys trust. She will be a project dog for someone.
Once she settles, her new owners will then more than likely need to be able to manage Isabellas behaviour around other dogs in the home environment ... so for this reason we are still looking to home her with a calm, relaxed, larger dog who is used to small dogs with attitude! Her owners will need to be around a lot of the day, but if needed Isabella can be crated, or better still, put in a doggy play pen if her owners needed to pop out and needed to leave Isabella at home without having any worries.
Recently, Isabella has been doing a lot of socialising with other dogs as well as humans! It is fair to say she is much better behaved around larger, calmer dogs, even more so in the home environment, but she can go on walks etc with other little dogs. If her foster mum is close by, Isabella will find enough courage to take treats from other humans! She does however become rather frantic and terrified around humans if her foster mum wanders off into another room or something.
Isabella is an extremely loyal, loving, fun girl once she relaxes around her human friends, but that has taken and will take a lot of work.

08-11-21 UPDATE


A little update on Isabella and what she's been up to recently... Please read the update carefully as Isabella does require a very special home.
We recently took Isabella to a pumpkin patch over the Halloween period for a little afternoon out for her to experience something a little different. We were only there for an hour but she was absolutely shattered from the experience! Despite being with me the whole time me, she did revert back to being quite worried and frightened of the few people that were near by so I obviously had to be very aware of her reactions and behaviour incase she felt the need to run away. However, she was curious with the farms cows! And had a little wander around the pumpkin patch! She fell asleep in my arms on the way home and enjoyed playing with her pumpkin teddy when we got in. Isabella wasn't very scared by Firework night at all, and followed her best doggy friends lead by barking at them a little and telling them off! She is looking forward to receiving lots of toys for Christmas, but would love it even more if she found her forever home beforehand.
Isabella has unfortunately been waiting for her perfect forever family to find her for a long while now. She is still looking for a very special, specific home, where the owners are experienced in very scared dogs. Her new owners will need to spend a lot of time gaining this ladys trust. She will be a project dog for someone. Once she does gain her new Mummy's trust, she will prove one exceptionally loyal and loving girl. Her favourite thing in the whole world is wrestling her foster mummy's arms, playing with toys, and eating and being given food treats as well as new toys to rag about!
Once Izzy settles in her new home, her new owners will then quite possibly need to manage Isabellas behaviour around other dogs in the home environment ... so for this reason we are still looking to home her with a calm, relaxed, larger dog who is used to small dogs with attitude! Her owners will need to be around a lot of the day, but if needed Isabella can be crated, or better still, put in a doggy play pen if her owners needed to pop out and needed to leave Isabella at home without having any worries.
Isabella's foster mum will be able to offer support all the way through her adoption and settling in process.

11-01-22 UPDATE

Isabella has waited SO long for her forever family to find her. It's really sad that she's still waiting - that she isn't in her perfect forever home, living up to her true potential, living her best life already. All she dreams and hopes for is to have owners who can give her lots of attention, who are going to be understanding and patient with her, and have experience with ex breeders, as well as just one / two big brothers or sisters to act as a guide/support to help her trust her forever family, and help settle her into her new home environment.
Apart from being a very frightened dog when you first meet her - one of the most scared and reactive dogs who've ever been rescued by Many Tears, another main reason why Isabella has waited for so long to be adopted is the fact that not one family with a much bigger dog has applied for her. The reason we'd like Isabella to go to a big dog home is, although she has been socialised with all dogs, she is "naughty" with smaller/more vulnerable dogs, and managing her in a home environment around smaller dogs is extremely difficult and not something that you would want to do forever. Isabella is SO much happier and better behaved if she is only around my male collie cross, or around my partner's German shepherd. She loves to chase the bigger dogs around the garden, quite likes to cuddle up to them on occasion, but most of all she likes it if they are very laid back, give her space, and ignore her feisty shihtzu attitude! Everything has to be on her terms! To put it nicely, she is just too "bossy" towards my beagles and smaller dogs.
Isabella had a nice Christmas. Even though she has been a naughty little girl all year, Santa still visited her, and although she didn't get the forever home she wanted, she did love the presents in her stocking, especially a small bouncey rubber blue ball, a cuddly giraffe teddy and some venison treats.
We are all really hoping someone very special comes along, and adopts this very special, funny, feisty, little madam very soon! She doesn't require much exercise... A good little run around the garden and a small little walk would be great. More than anything, she loves to have a few really good, full on wrestling matches with your arms and hands a day, and a play with some toys! Isabella is crate trained and housetrained too. So ... If you are looking for a bit of a challenge, a project dog, and have one or two big dogs, then look no further than this little lady. The hard work will be worth it! She really is one in a million.

06-06-22 UPDATE

The reason Isabella has waited for a very long time for her forever family is because she is a very scared little lady who requires a lot of work, and because she wouldn't like to share a home with smaller dogs.
Isabellas requirements for her forever home are as follows :

• Ideally just one/two LARGER dogs...
  Isabella is happier, more comfortable and better behaved around just one or two larger dogs. She feels she has to fight for attention in a pack environment, and once she eventually trusts her owner, she loves receiving a lot of attention! If she wasn't such a scared girl, she would make a perfect only dog, but unfortunately she is terrified of new people. Isabella does need quite a lot of attention from her owner to thrive, and be fully happy and content.
• Adopters who've had EXPERIENCE of very scared dogs, and who want a project dog.
• Her main carer being physically very able and the one to take her for walks.

Recently, Isabella has enjoyed a few adventures and her new favourite place seems to be a little forest with a stream running through it! She hasn't much stamina for very long walks but absolutely loves exploring new places, and feels super special in herself when she goes on days out!  

09-09-22 UPDATE
Isabella has been in foster with me for a long while now, in the hope that her PERFECT forever family will come across her. She hasn't had a lot of interest though, and has actually had no interest at all recently, which is very sad... I really thought her perfect family would find her.
Isabella is happy with her little routines, with people and in situations that are familiar, but reverts back to being a very worried and frightened girl in new situations and surroundings.
She loves going for little walks, doesn't need big walks or the sort of exercise that requires a lot of stamina! - she seems happy with one walk a day. Instead Isabella is the sort of dog who has bursts of energy and loves a run around the garden. She loves to play - chasing her larger foster collie brother around, throwing and batting toys around, and play wrestling with her foster mum and dads arms until she's completely out of breath!
Just recently Isabella has enjoyed a trip to her local beach and enjoyed climbing rocks & paddling in shallow pools of water... She became quite scared when the water became a little deeper though bless her.
Isabellas adopters must understand that Isabella requires a lot more work needing be put in than the average ex breeder... (Please read  previous updates for a little more information).
Ideally she would like to be homed with one/two larger dogs... She is better behaved around larger dogs - She feels she has to fight for attention in a pack environment, and once she eventually trusts her owner, she loves receiving a lot of attention! If she wasn't such a scared girl, she would make a perfect only dog, but unfortunately she is terrified of new people and situations... Isabella does need quite a lot of attention from her owner to thrive, and be fully happy and content. Ideally, her adopters will have experience and plenty of understanding of very scared dogs, and would like a project dog.

14-01-23 UPDATE 
Isabella is still waiting patiently for her forever home. Please read her page carefully and if you think you are the right home for this beautiful but complex girl please complete her adoption form