Groot's info:

Sex: Male
Age: Approx. 3
Size: Large
Breed: Mixed breed [Bull Lurcher]

Introducing Groot:

Groot recently arrived to us last March, after very narrowly avoiding being euthanised in a pound several hours away from Hull.

The pound pullers had tried everything and in a last ditch attempt to save his life, they contacted rescues further afield.

When we received their email, we'd just had a dog head off to their forever home and so Groot jumped straight into the car of a volunteer and headed over to Oakwood Dog Rescue to move into the still warm, empty kennel.

Groot has showed to be nothing more than an absolute gentle giant and absolutely loves being with his people.

With other dogs:

Groot has mixed with several of our larger dogs at the rescue. He tends to tire very quickly when playing with them but when he is bombing on around our fields, he doesn't seem to realise his size and the other dogs can get a little worried. He walks nicely alongside a male dog at our rescue but only has female friends that we have him off lead with. If he was to live with another dog, it would need to be a dog of similar size to him.

With cats:

Due to his breed that tends to have natural prey instinct, Groot is not able to live in a home with cats.

Active energy

Groot has shown to be a very chilled out boy. We think he's one of those dogs that would have a mad 5-10 minute blast off lead and then be content with snoozing for the rest of the day.

4-5 hours - slowly built up

Groot is very quiet in his kennel, we barely even know he's there.

We believe in a home that he'd be ok to be left 4-5 hours but this could need building up over time.

Lead trained

Groot walks absolutely lovely on a lead.

Training required

Groot has shown to not have any form of training.

He does occassionally do a 'sit' for us and he is spotless in his kennel but it's likely that he won't be fully housetrained and this may need to be worked on in a home.