If you are interested in adopting a dog that does not say it can be homed with a cat and wish us to cat test please let us know and we will be happy to do this.
14-02-24 Jessie is sweet girl who has come from her breeder to find a loving home. She has been bred from but was also allowed to be a part of the family. Jess is able to walk on a lead already and loves a gentle fuss. She is a little shy at the moment but getting braver and, due only to her size and occasional clumsiness, Jessie will be better suited to a home with children aged 12 and upwards, or an adult/teenager only home. Jessie will need a home with at least one other dog to help her settle into her new home. She gets on well with other dogs and she really is a super girl who will make someone very happy. She has a PETS passport travel doc.
07-03-24 UPDATE
Jessie is a beautiful girl who deserves to be out of kennels as soon as possible. Despite being used for breeding in the past, Jess has known home comforts and what being a pet has to offer.
Jessie is a super happy and friendly girl and despite her change of circumstances, doesn’t let anything get her down - you can usually find her playing with her friends, coming over to you for fusses, carrying her favourite blue ball around or even chasing her own tail!
Jessie is an older lady but it hasn’t slowed her down either. She loves playing fetch and going on play dates with other dogs, although she does also enjoy her cuddles and afternoon snoozes under the heat lamp. Jess knows her name well and walks well on the lead and enjoys going on lovely walks around the area. Jess gets on with every dog she’s ever met, we would definitely let her go to a home with a resident dog (or a few!)
If you can offer Jess the perfect active retirement home where she can finally get the life she deserves, please apply, this lovely girl truly deserves the world.
14-03-24 UPDATE
Jessie has seen our vets to be neutered and the vets have noted that she appears to have had previous surgery to excise her 4th and 5th mammary gland. Jess has a small skin abrasion/swelling on her 3rd left mammary gland and an old wound on the inside of her upper lip which requires no treatment. She is recovering well.
22-03-24 UPDATE
Jessie has been in foster nearly a week and loves home life. She is living with big and small dogs, male and female without any problems.
House trained (except for very odd occasion) sleeping quietly overnight, enjoying walks and loving her food.
Jessie is not looking for a retirement home - she loves cuddles on the sofa but loves going for walks and having new adventures. We think she would be easy to train and exceptionally loyal. She’s calm and would be fine with older dog savvy children. She really is a beautiful dog inside and out.
11-04-24 UPDATE
Jessie is looking for a forever home where she can be someone’s best friend. She loves to be close, cuddling, getting attention and being told she’s a good girl. She also loves to retrieve a ball, run around and play with her dog friends. Housetrained, sleeps quietly overnight and really enjoys food. A pro at walking on a lead - but she is strong if something grabs her attention- a true Pointer! If you’re looking for a beautiful GSP then please don’t leave Jessie waiting.
12-05-24 UPDATE
Jessie has been visiting different places and having new experience's whilst waiting for her forever family to find her. She’s getting in and out of the car, travelling really well and just loves being with you. She has started to respond well to some basic training and walks well on the lead. She meets new people happily and everyone says she is stunning (which she is). Happily living with big, small, male and female dogs. Jessie sleeps well overnight probably dreaming of her forever home.
26-06-24 UPDATE
Jessie has come into foster, with us in Surrey, after thriving with another fosterer, who has upcoming holiday commitments.
Jessie is a stunning, liver roan GSP girlie and has been (so far) completely clean in the house, day and night. She is living with our senior (8+yrs) MT resident girlies here, who are very soppy. Jessie has been very respectful of their space (she did enjoy games and big-dog play with her previous, younger foster house-mates). Jessie is also living with our 3 older children, aged 15 and upwards. Jessie has met, so far, a few other dogs on our walks and has behaved well. She has also coped well with visitors coming to our house and after an initial meeting fuss is happy to move on.
I would suggest she could be homed with older, dog-savvy children 10 years and upwards, just due to her size and heavy-footedness, not because she jumps up.
Jessie travels spectacularly well in the car, with no noise or upset even for long trips. At home, for now, she is very keen to know where her humans are and this is normal in the early days in a new environment. I'll continue to assess her, leaving her for short periods initially during the day. Overnight, Jessie has been sleeping in our home-office, on a dog cushion with one of our dogs and sleeps, without a peep, all night.
Despite her eight years, Jessie still has lots of energy and drive but interspersed, increasingly, with her stopping for a rest, for an hour or two as she settles in here. Jess really loves to play catch with you and to collect her favourite tennis balls and will need a decent amount of outdoor space on hand for her in her new home. Jessie will also need at least one or 2 good and varied walks each day and ideally some games: catch, kibble wobblers, tuggies etc.
Jessie can be strong on her lead/line in bursts, but is very happy to wear a head-collar for short periods on the lead and also has had a harness on mostly. (She knows what these both are already and gets excited at what's coming).
Jess knows the following asks: sit, enough and is easily corrected with no. I suspect she's got a few more commands in there too.
For now, despite not being stuck constantly to our resident dogs as is often true of an ex-breeder, she does like to spend some time with them , so I feel Jess will be happier in a multi-dog home with humans who are around for her most of the time and are also used to the needs of the higher-energy breed.
Jessie is displaying her breeds high breed's high prey-drive and for this reason can't live with cats, small furries and very definitely no birds.
10-07-24 UPDATE
Jessie continues to shine in a home environment. For anyone looking for a best friend, who loves the intelligence and fun of Jess's breed type but aren't sure if they have the energy for a young dog or puppy then Jess could be the solution.
Jess is a very affectionate and cuddly girl in the home and settles all night, every night downstairs with our two dogs. Jess also settles well for a couple of hours or so in day, after food and walks/games. Jess clearly loves to use her mind to solve new dog toys/games and for this reason loves spending time with our older children who enjoy seeing a foster dog achieve this. Our good friend, a dog behaviourist popped in to meet Jessie this week and played a few attention-building games too!
Jess is very happy to have her harness on and due to her strength and in our dog-heavy village, also her smart red Dogmatic headcollar. Once we reach our parks/open ground we swap her to just her harness. Jess's recall in secure fields is very solid and she already knows sit, stay, wait etc.
Jess can be over-excited to meet other dogs on walks (especially smaller ones) and sometimes gives a few low barks, which is likely excitement and her eagerness to play. I'm sure when settled in her new home with some time and patience this will be easily managed.
We have older dogs here (Jess is always respectful of) and ideally Jess would like a little more playtime with her new dog siblings.
Jess does display the expected prey drive and will become very alert if birds, squirrels appear on walks.
19-07-24 UPDATE
Since her move south for the summer, Jessie is really feeling at home here, in foster, this week. As Jessie's house-training and general manners at home are excellent, we've been concentrating on getting Jess more comfortable in our local park setting: as a foster dog she needs to be on her lead or a long line. Of course a typical urban flat park isn't exactly the ideal environment for an HPR breed, but as it's our morning daily walk, we are making it work and Jessie loves getting out with our dogs.
It's clear Jess feels more comfortable on her lead/line when meeting medium sized or larger dogs. She's more relaxed in her greeting with them and is just keen to play. With smaller dogs, however, she can be a little gruff and needs to be carefully managed. Jess is also very alert on most walks, it's her breed: looking for things and keen to explore, Jess will try to give chase to anything of interest, from birds to squirrels. Obviously, whilst on the end of a line this isn't ideal and we are using a high-value, squeaking toy to distract and refocus Jess. this is working really well, she's a fast learner and loves to get it right.
We also take Jessie to a secure dog walking field two or three times a week. Here she can be off-lead and we continue to see that her recall etc is very solid and of course we have her favourite thing - catching and retrieving balls. Great building blocks for when the time is right for her new people to let her off lead.
Finally, I can't finish Jess's update on anything but a good note. Jess is just so affectionate with all our family at home, she wants to be involved in all activities here, whether that's physical things in our garden or relaxing with our teenagers on the sofa. Jess was a part of a girls' sleepover last weekend, with our teenage daughter and her friends and was right in the middle of it all!! A very special dog who anyone would be lucky to share life with. Jess's new owners will likely need to consider placing her on a joint supplement, with help from their vet to protect against any issues later in life.
01-08-24 UPDATE
Jess has joined us all on a staycation this week enjoying the long- awaited sunshine. Jess is recovering from a sprain to her shoulder, and, as much as a GSP ever can (!) is on a week of rest, to help her, as quick as possible recovery. Resting doesn’t come easy to gorgeous Jessie but she’s trying so hard. A squirrel moving in to our garden hasn’t helped! Increasingly, it’s clear Jessie will be happiest in a forever home who are/is around lots of the time. Jess will become unsettled during the day if left and will benefit from some committed support to become happier being independent, for at least some of the time. Jess does settle incredibly well overnight downstairs :all night every night. Loving their people (hard) is stitched through the GSP breed and this trait combined with Jessie’s rescue background mean she’s very velcro. That all said, if Jess is right for you and your experience & commitment, you can expect the best cuddles and a loyal friend for life.
12-08-24 UPDATE
Jessie is enjoying relaxed family life more & more. Over the last two weeks in foster she’s combined outings to a secure dog walk with water. She loves to swim & is very competent in the water. We have had family here for lunch & Jess was always immaculately behaved with all visiting dogs & people. Being her usual charismatic, cuddle-bug self! On the training side Jess is extremely ‘Velcro’ during the days & does show several signs of separation anxiety when, initially, left. We’ve just started ‘mat training’ (asking Jess to settle on a dog cushion and stepping out of the room for seconds) to try and help Jess learn to be comfortable with short periods without humans. Anyone interested in adopting Jess would need to be happy to continue this journey even if it’s only to ensure she can be left for short periods. Jess ideally needs rescue experience alongside experience of higher-drive, prey driven dogs. Jess is not suitable for first time owners. Jess is also pretty strong on her lead , so will need owners able to manage this (head collar/figure of 8 helps)
14-02-24 Jessie is sweet girl who has come from her breeder to find a loving home. She has been bred from but was also allowed to be a part of the family. Jess is able to walk on a lead already and loves a gentle fuss. She is a little shy at the moment but getting braver and, due only to her size and occasional clumsiness, Jessie will be better suited to a home with children aged 12 and upwards, or an adult/teenager only home. Jessie will need a home with at least one other dog to help her settle into her new home. She gets on well with other dogs and she really is a super girl who will make someone very happy. She has a PETS passport travel doc.
07-03-24 UPDATE
Jessie is a beautiful girl who deserves to be out of kennels as soon as possible. Despite being used for breeding in the past, Jess has known home comforts and what being a pet has to offer.
Jessie is a super happy and friendly girl and despite her change of circumstances, doesn’t let anything get her down - you can usually find her playing with her friends, coming over to you for fusses, carrying her favourite blue ball around or even chasing her own tail!
Jessie is an older lady but it hasn’t slowed her down either. She loves playing fetch and going on play dates with other dogs, although she does also enjoy her cuddles and afternoon snoozes under the heat lamp. Jess knows her name well and walks well on the lead and enjoys going on lovely walks around the area. Jess gets on with every dog she’s ever met, we would definitely let her go to a home with a resident dog (or a few!)
If you can offer Jess the perfect active retirement home where she can finally get the life she deserves, please apply, this lovely girl truly deserves the world.
14-03-24 UPDATE
Jessie has seen our vets to be neutered and the vets have noted that she appears to have had previous surgery to excise her 4th and 5th mammary gland. Jess has a small skin abrasion/swelling on her 3rd left mammary gland and an old wound on the inside of her upper lip which requires no treatment. She is recovering well.
22-03-24 UPDATE
Jessie has been in foster nearly a week and loves home life. She is living with big and small dogs, male and female without any problems.
House trained (except for very odd occasion) sleeping quietly overnight, enjoying walks and loving her food.
Jessie is not looking for a retirement home - she loves cuddles on the sofa but loves going for walks and having new adventures. We think she would be easy to train and exceptionally loyal. She’s calm and would be fine with older dog savvy children. She really is a beautiful dog inside and out.
11-04-24 UPDATE
Jessie is looking for a forever home where she can be someone’s best friend. She loves to be close, cuddling, getting attention and being told she’s a good girl. She also loves to retrieve a ball, run around and play with her dog friends. Housetrained, sleeps quietly overnight and really enjoys food. A pro at walking on a lead - but she is strong if something grabs her attention- a true Pointer! If you’re looking for a beautiful GSP then please don’t leave Jessie waiting.
12-05-24 UPDATE
Jessie has been visiting different places and having new experience's whilst waiting for her forever family to find her. She’s getting in and out of the car, travelling really well and just loves being with you. She has started to respond well to some basic training and walks well on the lead. She meets new people happily and everyone says she is stunning (which she is). Happily living with big, small, male and female dogs. Jessie sleeps well overnight probably dreaming of her forever home.
26-06-24 UPDATE
Jessie has come into foster, with us in Surrey, after thriving with another fosterer, who has upcoming holiday commitments.
Jessie is a stunning, liver roan GSP girlie and has been (so far) completely clean in the house, day and night. She is living with our senior (8+yrs) MT resident girlies here, who are very soppy. Jessie has been very respectful of their space (she did enjoy games and big-dog play with her previous, younger foster house-mates). Jessie is also living with our 3 older children, aged 15 and upwards. Jessie has met, so far, a few other dogs on our walks and has behaved well. She has also coped well with visitors coming to our house and after an initial meeting fuss is happy to move on.
I would suggest she could be homed with older, dog-savvy children 10 years and upwards, just due to her size and heavy-footedness, not because she jumps up.
Jessie travels spectacularly well in the car, with no noise or upset even for long trips. At home, for now, she is very keen to know where her humans are and this is normal in the early days in a new environment. I'll continue to assess her, leaving her for short periods initially during the day. Overnight, Jessie has been sleeping in our home-office, on a dog cushion with one of our dogs and sleeps, without a peep, all night.
Despite her eight years, Jessie still has lots of energy and drive but interspersed, increasingly, with her stopping for a rest, for an hour or two as she settles in here. Jess really loves to play catch with you and to collect her favourite tennis balls and will need a decent amount of outdoor space on hand for her in her new home. Jessie will also need at least one or 2 good and varied walks each day and ideally some games: catch, kibble wobblers, tuggies etc.
Jessie can be strong on her lead/line in bursts, but is very happy to wear a head-collar for short periods on the lead and also has had a harness on mostly. (She knows what these both are already and gets excited at what's coming).
Jess knows the following asks: sit, enough and is easily corrected with no. I suspect she's got a few more commands in there too.
For now, despite not being stuck constantly to our resident dogs as is often true of an ex-breeder, she does like to spend some time with them , so I feel Jess will be happier in a multi-dog home with humans who are around for her most of the time and are also used to the needs of the higher-energy breed.
Jessie is displaying her breeds high breed's high prey-drive and for this reason can't live with cats, small furries and very definitely no birds.
10-07-24 UPDATE
Jessie continues to shine in a home environment. For anyone looking for a best friend, who loves the intelligence and fun of Jess's breed type but aren't sure if they have the energy for a young dog or puppy then Jess could be the solution.
Jess is a very affectionate and cuddly girl in the home and settles all night, every night downstairs with our two dogs. Jess also settles well for a couple of hours or so in day, after food and walks/games. Jess clearly loves to use her mind to solve new dog toys/games and for this reason loves spending time with our older children who enjoy seeing a foster dog achieve this. Our good friend, a dog behaviourist popped in to meet Jessie this week and played a few attention-building games too!
Jess is very happy to have her harness on and due to her strength and in our dog-heavy village, also her smart red Dogmatic headcollar. Once we reach our parks/open ground we swap her to just her harness. Jess's recall in secure fields is very solid and she already knows sit, stay, wait etc.
Jess can be over-excited to meet other dogs on walks (especially smaller ones) and sometimes gives a few low barks, which is likely excitement and her eagerness to play. I'm sure when settled in her new home with some time and patience this will be easily managed.
We have older dogs here (Jess is always respectful of) and ideally Jess would like a little more playtime with her new dog siblings.
Jess does display the expected prey drive and will become very alert if birds, squirrels appear on walks.
19-07-24 UPDATE
Since her move south for the summer, Jessie is really feeling at home here, in foster, this week. As Jessie's house-training and general manners at home are excellent, we've been concentrating on getting Jess more comfortable in our local park setting: as a foster dog she needs to be on her lead or a long line. Of course a typical urban flat park isn't exactly the ideal environment for an HPR breed, but as it's our morning daily walk, we are making it work and Jessie loves getting out with our dogs.
It's clear Jess feels more comfortable on her lead/line when meeting medium sized or larger dogs. She's more relaxed in her greeting with them and is just keen to play. With smaller dogs, however, she can be a little gruff and needs to be carefully managed. Jess is also very alert on most walks, it's her breed: looking for things and keen to explore, Jess will try to give chase to anything of interest, from birds to squirrels. Obviously, whilst on the end of a line this isn't ideal and we are using a high-value, squeaking toy to distract and refocus Jess. this is working really well, she's a fast learner and loves to get it right.
We also take Jessie to a secure dog walking field two or three times a week. Here she can be off-lead and we continue to see that her recall etc is very solid and of course we have her favourite thing - catching and retrieving balls. Great building blocks for when the time is right for her new people to let her off lead.
Finally, I can't finish Jess's update on anything but a good note. Jess is just so affectionate with all our family at home, she wants to be involved in all activities here, whether that's physical things in our garden or relaxing with our teenagers on the sofa. Jess was a part of a girls' sleepover last weekend, with our teenage daughter and her friends and was right in the middle of it all!! A very special dog who anyone would be lucky to share life with. Jess's new owners will likely need to consider placing her on a joint supplement, with help from their vet to protect against any issues later in life.
01-08-24 UPDATE
Jess has joined us all on a staycation this week enjoying the long- awaited sunshine. Jess is recovering from a sprain to her shoulder, and, as much as a GSP ever can (!) is on a week of rest, to help her, as quick as possible recovery. Resting doesn’t come easy to gorgeous Jessie but she’s trying so hard. A squirrel moving in to our garden hasn’t helped! Increasingly, it’s clear Jessie will be happiest in a forever home who are/is around lots of the time. Jess will become unsettled during the day if left and will benefit from some committed support to become happier being independent, for at least some of the time. Jess does settle incredibly well overnight downstairs :all night every night. Loving their people (hard) is stitched through the GSP breed and this trait combined with Jessie’s rescue background mean she’s very velcro. That all said, if Jess is right for you and your experience & commitment, you can expect the best cuddles and a loyal friend for life.
12-08-24 UPDATE
Jessie is enjoying relaxed family life more & more. Over the last two weeks in foster she’s combined outings to a secure dog walk with water. She loves to swim & is very competent in the water. We have had family here for lunch & Jess was always immaculately behaved with all visiting dogs & people. Being her usual charismatic, cuddle-bug self! On the training side Jess is extremely ‘Velcro’ during the days & does show several signs of separation anxiety when, initially, left. We’ve just started ‘mat training’ (asking Jess to settle on a dog cushion and stepping out of the room for seconds) to try and help Jess learn to be comfortable with short periods without humans. Anyone interested in adopting Jess would need to be happy to continue this journey even if it’s only to ensure she can be left for short periods. Jess ideally needs rescue experience alongside experience of higher-drive, prey driven dogs. Jess is not suitable for first time owners. Jess is also pretty strong on her lead , so will need owners able to manage this (head collar/figure of 8 helps)
PLEASE NOTE: We nearly always home dogs who have come from breeders where there is ALREADY A RESIDENT DOG living in the house. They have usually never lived in a house before and are only used to canine company. They usually get their confidence and learn faster with another dog to copy from. This also helps with house training and learning how to walk on a lead. They will make lovely pets but do need a lot of love, time and patience. If the ex breeding dog you are interested in can be an only dog it will say so in its write up. Please read our information on ADOPTING EX-BREEDING DOGS before you apply.
ADOPTION DETAILS
If your application is successful you will be home checked and you, all members of your family and any dog(s) who will be living with the dog MUST come to meet the dog you want to adopt. All our dogs are micro-chipped, have had at least their first inoculation and are spayed/neutered unless there is a medical reason for not doing so. You must have a safe means of transporting the dog home in a crate or if this is not possible please discuss with Many Tears or the Fosterer when your application is being processed.
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