Hazel's info:

Sex: Female
Age: 6 years old
Size: Medium
Breed: Mixed breed

Introducing.. Hazel!

Hazel's Story:

Hazel was a terrified girl that was rescued from a shelter in Romania. The photos that we received of her, she was wide eyed and absolutely frozen in fear.

During her time with us, this girl has already come so far.

She spent months being too scared to take treats from us and would always wait until we were no longer around to eat them, strokes were an absolute no go as you could tell by the fear in her eyes that she always thought something bad was going to happen.

These days, Hazel will now happily take treats from our hands, although she can still flinch if we move slightly too quickly, and she loves nothing more than strokes and fusses. She stands and waits patiently in her kennel for her time to have some 1-1 with our volunteers.

As she is starting to do so well with people, we have changed her rehoming criterea from needing to live with another dog for confidence to now believing that she would cope absolutely fine as an only dog in the home.

With other dogs:

Hazel has lots of dog friends at the rescue, male and female. She definately prefers the boys in her life but can be very selective of the females.

With cats:

Hazel has not been tested with cats. Due to her nervous nature, there is currently no safe way of testing her at the moment.

Active energy

Hazel has shown moderate energy levels since being with us but this could increase as she settles into a home

Time alone to be slowly built up

Hazel has never lived in a home before. If she was to live with another dog, we believe she'd be ok to be left for 4-5 hours but any time where he will be by himself will need to be slowly built up over time