Ruby

Ruby is an incredibly adorable, short legged, 1 year old, 12 pound Dachshund / Chihuahua mix. She was rescued from a dog hoarding situation in New Mexico where she lived with 30+ dogs and sadly never (until now) got treated right, loved, or shown what it means to be someone’s cherished pet.<br/><br/>Ruby must go to a home with at least one other small, social / confident dog. She will not thrive as an only dog. She is more confident and happy with doggy friends around her and we want to do what is in Ruby's best interest when finding her a forever home!<br/><br/>From Ruby's foster:<br/>* * * *<br/>"Ruby is an incredibly sweet girl and once her personality comes out, you'll see that she really is just a sweet, young puppy!!!<br/><br/>I want to preface this with now that Ruby has been with us for just under a month, she is a completely different dog than the one who initially came home with me! She is so silly, playful, loving, and friendly!!! She loves me and my husband, follows me around the house, kisses us on our faces, sits on our laps, and snuggles us at night. She just took some patience in the beginning, and had to learn that she could trust us.<br/><br/>Ruby will need an adopter who can be patient with her at first as she decompresses and learns to trust in her new home. When she first came home with us, she was very shy and a bit fearful when it came to human touch (i.e. she would run from us if we tried to pet or touch her) but otherwise she’s actually been quite confident from the beginning. From the second day home, she was playing with toys, relaxing on the couch, playing with my dogs, jumping into bed at night, getting the zoomies around the living room, and would even crawl all over us if we’re eating in front of her (she has no shame there, haha - she LOVES food!)<br/><br/>Just for the first about 1 and a half, maybe 2 weeks, Ruby was very hesitant of us and being touched by us. For the first 2 weeks she would run and hide under our couch when we would reach towards her. So, we just stopped trying to pet her. We just had to ignore her until she was comfortable. We let her come around to us on her own terms, and boy has she come around and she loves us now!!<br/>So we basically ignored her besides feeding her and giving her treats, and let her come around to us on her own terms.<br/>This is the best way to do it with a dog like her, as you cannot gain trust when you do not respect her boundaries.<br/>After really a week, she started to trust us (seeing our dogs trust us helped her a lot too!) and now she is a totally normal, happy dog!<br/><br/>Now that she has been with us for just about a month, and has become comfortable with me and my house, I have just now started taking her outside to our yard to work on potty training. Luckily she is potty-pad trained, so up until now she was just going on a potty pad inside. Since I had to ignore her the first week, I couldn't take her out to potty so we used pads instead.<br/>Then by week 3, I started letting her come out in the yard with my dogs and would give her a treat every time she came outside (she is so easily trained with treats since she loves food). Then I started giving her treats when she would potty outside, and now she is really really getting the hang of it!! We've only been fully working on potty training for a week and I'd say she is almost already potty trained! And she happily follows me and my dogs out to the yard every time we go.<br/><br/>While she is crate trained now, she was not at first so for the first 2 weeks I didn't crate her at all because I didn't want to stress her out. During that time, she would stay loose in the living room with my dogs and does perfectly fine left loose. I would check the camera when I left her, and she would just be hanging out on the couches with the other dogs.<br/>Our house is very dog-proof since we have so many dogs ourself and foster a lot, but if there is food she can get, she will get it. Our trash can is not anywhere the dogs can get to, but if yours is, Ruby would try I bet. So she can be left loose, as long as the house is dog-proofed! She won't chew things that are not dog toys (unless it has food inside).<br/>Now that she is crate trained, I crate her when we leave the house. She was super easy (again) to crate train because she is super treat motivated. Now if I even open the door to our spare bedroom where the dog crates are, she runs into her crate. I give her a treat every time she goes into her crate. <br/>2 of my dogs get crated when I leave home, and she goes into a crate right next to theirs. If your dog stays loose when you leave, I would recommend leaving Ruby loose with them. I don't know if she would love being in a crate without another dog near her. I mean worst she would do is cry but I just don't want her being uncomfortable! <br/><br/>I'd love to see Ruby be adopted by someone who understands that earning trust takes time for a dog who has been mistreated. Someone who has been around a lot of dogs, either someone with rescue dog or fostering experience, or having adopted a similar dog in the past would be great, but is not totally necessary! Just be patient and give her space for the first week or so and then the change will be amazing! I mean she turned into a normal, happy, playful puppy! And once you see that change, it's incredibly rewarding."<br/>* * * *<br/><br/>We'd like to place Ruby in a home where she'll get the training and stability that she needs. Positive reinforcement training promotes great behavior, bonding and confidence for a young girl whose self-esteem will fly high while she masters her skills. 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.<br/><br/>Ruby has been fully vetted, and she is in great health and up to date on her vaccines. She is spayed as well.<br/><br/>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.<br/>Farfel's Rescue has been doing adoptions this way since 2005 and is thrilled to adopt out ~400 dogs each year.<br/><br/>If you are interested in adopting from us, please be sure to fill out our adoption application at http://farfels.com/farfels-rescue/adoption-form/ .

Ruby is an incredibly adorable, short legged, 1 year old, 12 pound Dachshund / Chihuahua mix. She was rescued from a dog hoarding situation in New Mexico where she lived with 30+ dogs and sadly never (until now) got treated right, loved, or shown what it means to be someone’s cherished pet.

Ruby must go to a home with at least one other small, social / confident dog. She will not thrive as an only dog. She is more confident and happy with doggy friends around her and we want to do what is in Ruby's best interest when finding her a forever home!

From Ruby's foster:
* * * *
"Ruby is an incredibly sweet girl and once her personality comes out, you'll see that she really is just a sweet, young puppy!!!

I want to preface this with now that Ruby has been with us for just under a month, she is a completely different dog than the one who initially came home with me! She is so silly, playful, loving, and friendly!!! She loves me and my husband, follows me around the house, kisses us on our faces, si

Ruby is an incredibly adorable, short legged, 1 year old, 12 pound Dachshund / Chihuahua mix. She was rescued from a dog hoarding situation in New Mexico where she lived with 30+ dogs and sadly never (until now) got treated right, loved, or shown what it means to be someone’s cherished pet.

Ruby must go to a home with at least one other small, social / confident dog. She will not thrive as an only dog. She is more confident and happy with doggy friends around her and we want to do what is in Ruby's best interest when finding her a forever home!

From Ruby's foster:
* * * *
"Ruby is an incredibly sweet girl and once her personality comes out, you'll see that she really is just a sweet, young puppy!!!

I want to preface this with now that Ruby has been with us for just under a month, she is a completely different dog than the one who initially came home with me! She is so silly, playful, loving, and friendly!!! She loves me and my husband, follows me around the house, kisses us on our faces, sits on our laps, and snuggles us at night. She just took some patience in the beginning, and had to learn that she could trust us.

Ruby will need an adopter who can be patient with her at first as she decompresses and learns to trust in her new home. When she first came home with us, she was very shy and a bit fearful when it came to human touch (i.e. she would run from us if we tried to p