Atomo – 2 year old male Pointer

Atomo is a 2 year old male Pointer. Lovely Atomo needs a new home urgently, he came over in January this year and has spent the last 5 months with a wonderful family. The reason why he needs to go is because the original dog in the home really doesn’t like him and has started doing resource guarding and although his adopters have worked with and still are working with a behaviourist she’s not getting any better and is visibly stressed. She can’t bear it when he goes up to Mum and butts him out of the way and sometimes goes for him so it’s stressful for him too. It’s been a very hard and very upsetting decision for them since Atomo has done nothing wrong but there is just no way round it, their original dog clearly needs to be an only dog and Atomo needs a home where he isn’t being caused to feel stressed.

The family had a really tough time since he developed Leishmaniasis after he arrived (he’d tested negative in Spain but will have been in the incubation period then) and initially the vets weren’t sure what it was and he was ill and unhappy. 2 months into his treatment he is symptom-free and full of beans, fit as a fiddle and very happy. He still needs treatment but the disease was caught quickly and although he will have Leish for life it will go into remission and his life expectancy and his quality of life will be the same as for a dog with no Leish. The treatment he needs next is injections for 1 to 2 months. We will provide full support on how to administer the injections which are already with his adopters waiting to go.

Thereafter he will need medication which is available inexpensively in the UK and 6-monthly and then annual Leishmaniasis tests. We provide full Leish support (via a very experienced Spanish vet) and this keeps the costs down and ensures he is given the right treatment. He is a very good-natured dog, he loves people, lives with 3 little girls, gets on well with other dogs, his adopter has spent lots of time working on his training and he’s doing really well, he’s very eager to learn. His recall is getting there but still some work to be done. He really enjoys doing scent work and can spend up to an hour at a time doing it without losing focus.

from Dogs for Adoption & Rescue – DogsBlog.com http://bit.ly/2Wlg9lt