Current Status: Homed
William's Story: William was found abandoned and unclaimed within a Hampshire council pound. Rescue Remedies offered a Rescue place saving his life. William is now neutered, chipped, and vaccinations are in progress. William was in boarding kennels near Gatwick whilst awaiting his new family.
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William's progress through our Rescue is below.
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Original Referral information: Message from Safe&Sound Poor William is a mastiff x staffy who was picked up by the dog warden anxious and with an injured paw. He’s only about a year old. The previous day he’d been posted about all over local social media by various people who’d spotted him, one of whom managed to contain him in her garden. His story seems to be that the owner had got William FreeToaGoodHome but he lived in a third floor flat and William was stressed and unsettled there, and the landlord said he couldn’t stay. It appears that the new owner may have just taken him outside and let him go.
His paw is badly injured and he’s had an operation on it today. The vet suggested to the dog warden that he was neutered too while under anaesthetic and her boss agreed. He’s back at the pound kennels now and is due a check up on Monday. He’s been fine with the dog warden but has been a bit stressed at kennels since his ops. He has seemed okay when seeing other dogs.
If you were able to help him, one of the kennel staff may be able to take him to Treetops Saturday.
Hoping you can help as we just can’t take him.
Kind regards Amanda S&S
Dexter (William) Mastiff x DofB 03.2018 Leighton Buzzard
Re: William Mastiff x DofB 03.2018 Guildford Kenns
I fell in love with William today whilst putting an additional dressing on his poorly paw (he'd pulled the one he arrived with off). He is stunning, sweet, affectionate and bright. He also appears to love other dogs and tried to kiss them all along the run despite them all shouting at him. He'll be an absolute smasher of a dog once treated well.
Re: William Mastiff x DofB 03.2018 Guildford Kenns
William was advertised as a Ridgeback x Lurcher, 1.5 yrs old. Here are some pics from his journey so far:
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Re: William Mastiff x DofB 03.2018 Guildford Kenns
What a stunner. William is not only very handsome but he has such a lovely nature. Jim had already met him and came with me to get him out this morning. His bandage had come off his sore paw so we walked along the road to keep his foot nice and dry. I believe he was heading off the vets this afternoon for a new dressing. His paw is healing and it wasn't stopping him enjoying his walk this morning. For a large lad he is surprisingly gentle on the lead and we ambled down the lane, William very keen to have a proper sniff about.
Re: William Mastiff x DofB 03.2018 Guildford Kenns
How is lovely William?
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Re: William Mastiff x DofB 03.2018 Guildford Kenns
William's foot is healing nicely and having met him last week, this morning I introduced him to Louise. We then headed off for a long walk, William walking with Louise and Frankie with me.
William proceeded to show us what a wonderful, calm temperament he has and what impeccable manners. He loves to make friends with everyone/creature he sees, especially people. He did very polite play bows to Frankie, but Frankie was too busy sniffing and getting on with his own walk, so William settled for walking with him, without any fuss. Indeed we passed dogs, people, horses and traffic and William took everything in his stride. Louise commented how beautifully he walks on the lead.
William proceeded to show us what a wonderful, calm temperament he has and what impeccable manners. He loves to make friends with everyone/creature he sees, especially people. He did very polite play bows to Frankie, but Frankie was too busy sniffing and getting on with his own walk, so William settled for walking with him, without any fuss. Indeed we passed dogs, people, horses and traffic and William took everything in his stride. Louise commented how beautifully he walks on the lead.
Re: William Mastiff x DofB 03.2018 Guildford Kenns
William was a perfectly behaved gentleman when I met him yesterday, happy to have his leads clipped on and came out his kennel with no fuss.
He needs road walks at the moment due to his poorly paw, but unfortunately he isn't really keen on cars and is a bit nervous as well. So instead we did a few laps up and down the lane, and he was much happier!
Even though he's a big boy, he doesn't pull on the lead. He likes to have a look at other dogs but doesn't show any reaction or make any noise, he's a good lad!
He needs road walks at the moment due to his poorly paw, but unfortunately he isn't really keen on cars and is a bit nervous as well. So instead we did a few laps up and down the lane, and he was much happier!
Even though he's a big boy, he doesn't pull on the lead. He likes to have a look at other dogs but doesn't show any reaction or make any noise, he's a good lad!
Re: William Mastiff x DofB 03.2018 Leighton Buzzard
William was over the moon (Swoon) to meet the everso lovely Quincy...She na=eeded to put hims forward atempts to play in check a few times just to start the relationship off on the right note. Annabel and Lee are just perfect owners for sweet William and he is going to have a wonderful life here on in!