All About Patti
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Name: Patti
Breed: French Bulldog Age: 4-5 Sex: Female Weight: 28 pounds Adoption Fee: $450 Foster Location: Ankeny, Iowa Cats: Unknown Kids: Yes Other Dogs: Yes. She can get overly excited with smaller dogs. After a nice introduction and some time together, she is fine. House Trained: Working on it! Demeanor: Happy, friendly, sassy, and sometimes stubborn Energy Level: Low - medium Health Issues: NA Behavioral Issues: NA |
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Patti joined Lucky Bulldogs Rescue when she was released from the commercial breeding industry. Her puppy making days are over, bring on the belly rubs! Patti loves all people and has never met a stranger. She loves cuddling right next to you and will frequently roll over for belly rubs.
Patti’s energy level is overall low, but like all Bulldogs/Frenchies, she has occasional zoomies followed by a long nap to recharge. In fact, she sleeps 80% of the day. Patti has learned to love toys, the more the merrier! Patti loves chewing on bones and toys, but she also likes to chew on thing that aren’t dog safe like shoes and socks on the floor. Due to her past, she just doesn’t know these are not safe. Her new family will need to make sure to keep things picked up until she knows what is appropriate to chew on.
Patti is working on potty training and getting better each day. She still has accidents, but with consistency and routine she should get it in no time.
Patti has learned to walk on a leash well. However, she will get very fixated if she sees another human/dog/anything and will try and pull to go towards it. Since she’s so new at this whole pet thing she does take some time to re-focus and get going on the walk. Her little legs can’t go very far, short walks are her favorite walks. She also likes to collect sticks on her walks. She seems to think her foster family has a stick collection at home and she’s keen to add to it.
Maybe it’s due to her past or maybe she is just anti-crate, but Patti does not love being kenneled. She is slowly learning to accept and tolerate the crate as her foster family has been feeding her in her crate and putting her in during the day for short yet increasing increments. It’s been going well, and she does OK when her foster family works from home, and she can see them. She will whine a little, but she eventually settles down. If she is left home alone in the crate or put in the crate for bedtime, she will try to escape the crate and does protest a lot more than whining. Her foster family recently discovered she does just fine with a gate across the laundry room door. Maybe she’s a little claustrophobic? Her adoptive family will need to plan on continuing crate training and/or provide an alternative place to keep her safe when her family is away.
Overall, Patti is super sweet, cute, and cuddly!! She has such a spunky and sassy personality. She will bring lots of joy and fun to her forever home. If she think she's the one for you, apply today!
Patti’s energy level is overall low, but like all Bulldogs/Frenchies, she has occasional zoomies followed by a long nap to recharge. In fact, she sleeps 80% of the day. Patti has learned to love toys, the more the merrier! Patti loves chewing on bones and toys, but she also likes to chew on thing that aren’t dog safe like shoes and socks on the floor. Due to her past, she just doesn’t know these are not safe. Her new family will need to make sure to keep things picked up until she knows what is appropriate to chew on.
Patti is working on potty training and getting better each day. She still has accidents, but with consistency and routine she should get it in no time.
Patti has learned to walk on a leash well. However, she will get very fixated if she sees another human/dog/anything and will try and pull to go towards it. Since she’s so new at this whole pet thing she does take some time to re-focus and get going on the walk. Her little legs can’t go very far, short walks are her favorite walks. She also likes to collect sticks on her walks. She seems to think her foster family has a stick collection at home and she’s keen to add to it.
Maybe it’s due to her past or maybe she is just anti-crate, but Patti does not love being kenneled. She is slowly learning to accept and tolerate the crate as her foster family has been feeding her in her crate and putting her in during the day for short yet increasing increments. It’s been going well, and she does OK when her foster family works from home, and she can see them. She will whine a little, but she eventually settles down. If she is left home alone in the crate or put in the crate for bedtime, she will try to escape the crate and does protest a lot more than whining. Her foster family recently discovered she does just fine with a gate across the laundry room door. Maybe she’s a little claustrophobic? Her adoptive family will need to plan on continuing crate training and/or provide an alternative place to keep her safe when her family is away.
Overall, Patti is super sweet, cute, and cuddly!! She has such a spunky and sassy personality. She will bring lots of joy and fun to her forever home. If she think she's the one for you, apply today!
While in foster care, all our dogs are thoroughly vetted. Any discovered medical issues will be disclosed above. Our Lucky Bulldogs (and their smushie-faced buddies) are cleared by their vet for adoption prior to us accepting applications. All our dogs will be up to date on Rabies & DHPP vaccinations, up to date on Heartworm preventative after a negative Heartworm test, and spayed or neutered prior to being adopted out to their forever homes. Often times, our dogs are given dentals and sometimes nare-widening surgery if needed while under anesthesia. All surgical and medical history we have will be shared with adopters. Further details can be discussed with the foster volunteer during the phone interview for the applications that are chosen to proceed to the phone interview part of the adoption process.
All our dogs are crate trained unless otherwise noted on their "All About" pages.
All our dogs are crate trained unless otherwise noted on their "All About" pages.
We will accept applications for our available dogs for 1-2 weeks except in cases of overwhelming popularity where we may stop accepting new applicants sooner. Once we have stopped accepting applications, we will review them and proceed with a phone call with our top two applications to chat about the dog being applied for, go over the adoption process, and answer any questions the potential adopter has. After phone calls take place, we will decide on our top applicant choice and proceed to contact them to schedule a home visit (in person or via video chat), and check vet and personal references before the adoption is ready to be completed. This process can take up to 6 weeks.