Ruby - Older Staffie With Crooked Leg

[Fee]

 

Sweet Ruby is a lively 10 year old Staffordshire Bull Terrier girl who is looking for a new home after being found as a stray. She is in an Oldies Club foster home in Watford, Hertfordshire.

 

Her foster mum has sent us this information about Ruby:

 

Ruby is a very loving little girl and friendly with everyone. Her tail is always wagging and she has a happy smile on her face. She has a good nature, always trying to do her best and anxious to please. She is very gentle and quiet - rarely barking, only when the door bell rings, and at the window cleaners!

 

Ruby loves to check everything out in the garden and noses in every nook and cranny in the house - it’s all so new to her as she seems to have had no previous home life.

 

 

She’s mad about her toys and loves to play, though she also likes to sneak onto the sofa and cuddle up. She can be left alone in the house for up to 4 hours.

 

 

Ruby is house trained and quick to learn her basic commands, but still needs some work on training as she gets distracted by anything exciting! She walks well on and off the lead.

 

She is wary of other dogs but not aggressive, and enjoys walking with any she gets to know. She has no experience of cats but she loves to chase squirrels. Ruby travels well in the car and is a favourite at the vets for being such a sweetheart.

 

Since arriving in Oldies Club care, Ruby has had a health check, been spayed, microchipped and flea- and worm-treated. She has had two mammary lumps removed and these were found to be benign. She has a slightly crooked front leg, but it has no impact on her energetic lifestyle - it’s hard to believe she’s around 10 years old!

 

Ruby now deserves a permanent retirement home and will make a wonderful pet for anyone who has some spare time to play with her and keep up her training. In return, they will get a devoted and loving companion, still anxious for love and attention, but oh so grateful to get it!

 

 

If you would like to find out more about Ruby, please refer to our Adoption Procedures for information about the adoption process. You can then contact an Oldies Club rehoming co-ordinator as follows:

 

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 0844 586 8656

 

Ruby can be rehomed anywhere in the UK, subject to a satisfactory home visit, but please note that you will be required to travel to the foster home to meet her.

[JACKYSIAN]

She's a female Cooper!!! (Wonky legs and all!!) If she's half the fantastic dog that Cooper is someone will be very very lucky!! 10 years isn't old for staffies!!

[Fee]

Ruby is doing so well in her foster home. She's walking nicely on the lead now, and her fosterer describes hr as a total sweetheart. There must be someone out there who needs a staffy smile in their lives

[Jacobean]

This delightful little girl is still waiting for her forever home.

[mole]

I have a 10/11 year old rescue small staffy X dog - middle one in the photo on the left - he has a twisted leg like Ruby - probably due to an injury when he was young and in his previous abusive home. This usually happens when one of the bones of the leg grows more than the other due to trauma or genetics and throws the elbow out. I have had him since he was 2/3 years old.

 

I have always treated him as a normal dog and his leg doesn't seem to cause him a problem - he is on glucosamine/chondroitin and fish body oil for it.

 

Please don't be put off by Ruby's leg or age - staffy's are great little characters who get on with life despite everything and tend to be long lived.

[Fee]

Ruby has now gone to her forever home

[ReikiAnge]

[kimmy]

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