Wren

Meet Wren!

Wren has the need, the need for speed! She’s the real deal — smart, energetic, playful, affectionate, and she’s gorgeous, though no one appears to have told her that yet, so we don’t have a diva on our hands. When she first came to us, she had been picked up as a stray in Maryland, spent a few weeks in a shelter there, then hopped a flight and came to central Virginia. So she’s had a minute, and it took another minute for her to come out of her shell, but it’s been awesome to see the dog who has been emerging. She’s in perfect health and shows signs that she was well cared for in her previous life, and no signs that she was ever abused.

Wren can still be cautious at first, including with other dogs, but she susses them out quickly and a green-light means she’ll play at top speed until her tongue is dragging on the ground. Over the past few weeks in foster, she has become increasingly trusting with new people, and easier to warm up to them. That confidence is continuing to grow, and fun to watch. More about Wren:

— She’s house trained and crates well overnight. I think she’d love to sleep in a bed and snuggle with someone, but she does fine in the crate. She knows that’s where breakfast and dinner are served, and she eagerly helps you fill her bowl up and jumps in the crate to help you empty it.
— She’s extremely food- and treat-motivated! You can definitely buy her love and attention, but she’d give it to you anyway.
— She loves squeaky toys, balls, Pupsicles, and Nylabones. Less-than-sturdy toys will quickly meet their demise. Other than occasionally chewing the blanket she flew in with, she is not destructive and has full trust in this house.
— She loves belly scratches and scritches on the back of her head and under her chin. Scratch that belly and she will be yours. (Also, that belly will be yours until your hand seizes up.)
— She really likes to be near her humans, be it helping with kitchen floor cleanup while you’re cooking, in the office while you’re working, or snuggling on the couch watching a show. On her first night here, she literally flopped halfway across my chest with her tongue lolling out like she’d been doing it all her life. She is a snuggler!
— She knows basic commands now and is an eager student. She does, however, still jump on people when she’s excited. She really needs a home without little kids and with someone who knows how to channel that Border Collie energy and keep the training going. She’s made really good progress in just a few weeks, and the sky is her limit. She could potentially be a sport dog, a working dog, but she’d also be deliriously happy in an active household, ideally with other dogs.
— She’s not a runner or a Houdini. She’s very good about respecting whatever her boundaries and routines are, and learns them quickly.
— She has not been cat-tested, but this could be arranged. I’d be very surprised if she were reactive, though tell that to the squirrels.

In short, she’s going to be a great addition to the right household, and I’ll give her the highest praise a foster can: It will be exhilarating to see her find her forever home, but I’ll have a good cry when she leaves mine.

If you are the perfect forever home for Wren, please fill out an application and contact her foster parents at davisdoig@yahoo.com. BRBCR’s approval process includes phone interviews, reference checks, and a home visit prior to meeting a foster dog. Approved applicants must meet at the foster dog’s location. Every adoption begins with a 2-week trial period.

Wren’s adoption fee is $350.

Thank you for considering a rescue dog!