- Name: Daisy
- Breed: Basset Cross
- Age: 5 Years
- Sex: Female
- Location: Cambridgeshire
UPDATE 16th March 2024
After 257 days in foster, after being let down by a few potential adopters we are so very very happy and excited to announce that Daisy went to her forever home yesterday!
She’s had an amazing first night and is her new parents absolute delight!
Congratulations Daisy! We knew the perfect home was out there for you.
Massive thank you to everyone who shared this girl over the last few months, her supporters, her transport angels and of course her wonderful foster family. We won’t lie, she tried their patience at times.
Well done Daisy, be happy girl and we look forward to seeing you settle into your new life
We are so pleased to announce Daisy has had a successful meet and greet and will be joining her forever family really soon!
Woohooo Daisy – we will update once she has been officially adopted!
As many of you will know about our Daisy, she has had two meet and greets arrnaged, the first never happened, we’re not going to dwell on that any longer, the second, happened however the hounds didn’t hit it off, so Daisy remains in foster where she has been since the 3rd June 2023.
Daisy is a mix breed Basset. She is what we would like to call a pocket rocket basset.
Daisy had been with her original family since she was a puppy. They met both of her parents, daddy being the full Basset and mummy being a Staffy. Both breeds a wonderful family dog.
Daisy’s Basset traits are strong. She is incredibly loving; wants to be involved; wants to be with you; can play like a WWF wrestler as Bassets like to do; can splot like the best of them; loves her food; loves going on adventures; and can be a stubborn little moo! Do not be put off by her mix.
Daisy is in foster at present with another basset and a lab. Now she has tried to be in charge of these two so was told upon arrival, our house our rules missy and she has learnt, although still at times has an issue with remembering “no, go away” actually does mean please leave me alone now it’s nap time!
We do believe however Daisy needs a home where she is on her own, although she loves playing she is begining to get a little too bolshy and really wants all the human interation to herself. Daisy spent the first five years of her life as an only dog, so we know she is happy on her own with friends to meet up with out and about and have a play and interact with. Maybe once relationships have been formed a friend to come and visit and have a snuggle on the sofa with – oh yes this girl snuggles like a basset (humans and hounds), did we mention that?
As you can see Daisy is a very cuddly hound, she loves her people and loves getting on laps to join in with everything you are trying to do. on a scale of 1-10 Daisy’s affection level is about 12986%, she just loves a cuddle on your lap and to help whatever you are doing.
She LOVES being outside, she enjoys her walks, she will liiterally go forever. She’ll entertain herself outside in the garden with her toys and is quite happy playing alone. Her foster mum explained Daisy’s outlook on life as a Tigger on a Pogo Stick!
She travels well in the car and has been out and about a lot, she’s been quite a horse lorry companion when her foster mum has been busy at the stables. She’ll either jump up into the car herself or is happy to be lifted in.
She can be excited meeting other dogs outside on walks but once she has said hello she’s happy to go off and carry on with her adventures. Her excitement does come across as lunging and barking so careful introductions are needed with stranger dogs and further training is required in this area, which of course we will assist with.
Daisy’s foster home has had some renovation work carried out whilst she has been there. She was quite happy with the workmen coming and going, even more happy to help them empty their tool kits and put the tools in the garden for closer inspection! They were told there was a Daisy shaped tool thief about!
Daisy is totally house trained, and will ask to go out. She has no food resource guarding issues and just loves her grub. She’s a little girl at around 20-21KG and will eat happily twice a day.
In the garden her recall is excellent, outside, well the world is exciting so this will need some work on before she could be completly off lead. She’s also fast and if there’s one of those pesky rabbits in a field she will give chase!
Because of Daisy’s speed and excitable outlook on life we would say any children need to be dog savvy, they need to understand that Daisy will at times get excited, or want to sit with them and see what they’re doing on their ipads, so we would suggest any resident children should be late primary school/early secondary school age.
Dasiy has been left alone in foster and was left in her previous home for 4-5 hours with chew treats.
Daisy’s needs:-
- An active family who are willing to put in the excercise and continued lead training needs
- Mental stimulation with games and lots of sniffy walks
- Any children need to be dog savvy and older than 10 years old
- Patience and time to spend with Daisy in the crucial first few weeks as she adapts to her forever home.
- BRNGB will of course assist with positive reinforcement training if Daisy’s new family wish us to
- A family where someone is home most of the time although Daisy can be left for short periods
- A family who understand hounds and their needs
- No small furries, cats, chickens etc, we are not sure on Daisy’s prey drive wouldn’t want any accidents
- NO RESIDENT DOG
