fiona

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

Fiona is a 3 year old, 12 pound, adorable little Chihuahua / Italian Greyhound mix.

Fiona was found as a stray in Artesia, NM, and brought into an awful high kill shelter, where we knew we could not leave her. Fiona was pretty scared in the shelter, but after a few days in foster care, she came right out of her shell!

Here is what Fiona's foster had to say about her:
"Fiona is a sweetheart!!! She was VERY scared and wanted nothing to do with me on the first day home, but literally all it took was like 2, maybe 3 days for her to decompress after coming home from the shelter, and now she is a total love bug!! She LOVES other dogs and I could tell that she immediately felt safe, happy, and more comfortable after meeting my dogs. So she really needs a home with another friendly dog to help her be content. But once she warmed up, she's because such a sweet, happy, love bug!"

Please note that we agree with Fiona's foster that she will thrive in a home with another dog and are unwilling to adopt her to a home without another pup, as we want to do right by Fiona.

We'd like to place Fiona 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.

Fiona is up to date on her vaccinations, has been fully vetted, is healthy, and heartworm negative. She has also been 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.