winnie

** If you are interested in adopting Winnie, please fill out our adoption application at http://farfels.com/farfels-rescue/adoption-form/ **

If you've ever wished for a miniature Golden Retriever, your dream may have just come true! Winnie is an absolutely stunning 7 month old, 25 lb Golden Retriever / English Springer Spaniel mix (or at least that's our best guess! We never DNA test our rescue dogs, so her breed is only an educated guess) but whatever her mix may be, she's undeniably gorgeous. With her beautiful golden coat and sweet expression, she turns heads everywhere she goes. Since she's 7 months old, she may fill out just a bit more, but we expect her to stay around 30 lbs or less when fully grown.

Winnie's story is one we'll never understand. She somehow found herself in one of Houston's overcrowded, high-kill shelters, despite being the kind of dog most people spend years hoping to find. Thankfully, we were able to rescue her before it was too late, and now she's looking for her forever family.

This sweet girl has clearly lived in a home before. She's well-mannered, eager to please, and has the kind of personality that makes life easier instead of more chaotic. She's affectionate without being demanding, playful without being wild, and has all the wonderful qualities people love about young dogs. Winnie is the perfect age, past the tiny puppy stage but still young enough to enjoy years of adventures, training, hiking, road trips, and snuggling with her forever family.

Winnie's foster family has gotten to know her well and has the following to say about her:
"Winnie is a super super super sweet and fun dog. She crates easily, is great on car rides, great on walks, easy to bathe, potty trained, and knows her commands!!!
She seems like a mini golden retriever! She gets along great with our cats but may occasionally run after them. She is great with other dogs and always says hello to other dogs on walks. She is very playful, loving, and is definitely a lap dog princess. She's been super friendly with everyone and everything!"


We'd like to place Winnie in a home where she'll get consistent stimulation, exercise and love. A (virtual or in-person) positive reinforcement training class promotes great behavior, bonding and confidence. Training is so important in the future behaviors of every dog. It's for this reason that we're unwilling to adopt to a family that doesn't make this loving choice. Farfel's is happy to provide a list of both in-person and virtual positive reinforcement / force- free trainers in your area.

Winnie is up to date on her vaccinations, has been fully vetted, is healthy, heartworm negative, and is spayed.

Farfel's Rescue is a fully foster based rescue, and offers a one week trial with every adoption. We feel that this is much more beneficial to not only the dog, but the adopter too. We believe that only getting 20-30 minutes with a dog before deciding on a lifetime commitment is not a fair amount of time to the adopter, or the dog. Therefore we give adopters one week with the dog to assure it is the right fit, and offer a full refund of their adoption fee should it not workout within the week trial.

Farfel's Rescue has been doing adoptions this way since 2005 and is thrilled to adopt out 400 dogs each year.

Applications are currently being accepted for our wonderful pup. If interested in this gorgeous, very cuddly/sweet and loving best friend, please fill out an application completely at http://farfels.com/farfels-rescue/adoption-form/ and submit.

**PLEASE NOTE** If you're truly interested in adopting from us, please be sure to fill out our Farfel's Rescue adoption application found at the link above or at farfels.com. Adoption site applications such as Petfinder and Adoptapet don't provide enough information and therefore aren't useful. Our Farfel's application is the only initial tool that we have to determine a great match for this very deserving dog. We're sorry, but in many cases, we're unable to get back to those that don't submit our Farfel's Rescue adoption application. Thanks very much for choosing rescue.