Colin XL Bully DofB 09.09.21 Faversham Kent

[xxlynne]

Current Status: Homed

Colin's Story: Colin was taken in as welfare. Rescue Remedies offered a Rescue place saving his life. Colin is now neutered, chipped, and fully vaccinated. Colin came in to our Rescue Centre nr Gatwick whilst awaiting his new family.

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Colin's progress through our Rescue is below.
We work with our dogs, who often reveal an evolving picture and positive skills as they build trust.

Original referral information: We have the honour to help Colin find his new family.

Colin came into RescueRemedies on the 20th Aug 23

[xxlynne]

Colin has arrived and taking us with a wow....

Yesterday he gave his kennel place to an emergency intake Lola a German Shepherd who needed it urgently. Today Jenna and Nathan offered Lola a 1 week foster so Lola said "Thank you Colin...for the use. Yours!"

[PaulB]

Colin... we share the same birthday (except for the year, obviously)!

I saw you briefly when I popped into the Rescue for a couple of hours late this afternoon and you took a couple of sausage treats from me ever so gently.

I'll take you for a walk on my next visit.

[TonyC1964]

I am soooooo happy

May I introduce to you the newbie that is:

COLIN !!!!!

I have been waiting to get a lead on this boy since I knew he was coming to RR.
Having changed his name to something more gentlemanly, I have been very eager to meet him.

He has not failed to impress me.

Having walked Dawn and Tyler, I was going to have a supposed short day to catch up on other duties at home etc.

However, I decided to have squish and cuddle with 2 of the newbies, in the forms of Hector, a lovely lad and Bear, also a handsome creature.

As I walked behind Lynne's van I saw something quite large blocking the view through the windows. This was Colin's head !

With a Cheshire cat grin on my face along with our lovely kennel staff I was introduced to the handsome Colin. I can honestly say I think everybody fell for him instantly. He is absolutely stunning. previous pics do not do him justice.

He is a big boy with a gorgeous face that contains a cheeky grin and reminds me of Simba, an XL previously at RR.

Hello everybody

I took him to the paddock for a wind down and then a little walk.

Initial observations are that he walks very nicely with confidence,is good around dogs (Beau Beau had a quick bark at him which he basically ignored and went about his walk), is very people friendly, loves a stroke and a cuddle and is definitely a boy that wants your attention and affection. I was sitting on a chair in the blue paddock and Colin decided that he wanted some of that action and promptly tried to squeeze in behind me for a bit of affection ! , sadly the chair could not accommodate the pair of us and so I let our new guest have the pleasure whilst I took a quick video.



This boy will definitely have a queue of bully breed lovers to walk him ! He is AWESOME !!

I am itching to get back to RR on Tuesday to take this young man out !!!

[anne]

[TonyC1964]

Colin went for a walk with the one and only Tyler today and they were absolutely blinding together.

Definitely a good combo these 2.

He was very well behaved for his Auntie Simone, whilst I had Tyler,

Sadly I didn't get any pics but will endeavour to do so on our next Big Bully walk.

[anne]

[sweetpea]

Gorgeous

[SimoneG]

As Tony said, Colin was so lovely to walk. Gentle, didn’t pull and doesn’t seem bothered at all about other dogs.

The next day we took Colin and Freya out. Again, a lovely nice easy walk from both of them.

Colin is a very sweet boy. I hope he finds the home he deserves soon

[TonyC1964]

As with Tyler I had only a short visit today and Colin was another on my list for a paddock run.

As with my first experience with Colin he seemed to take great delight on sitting on the chairs in the paddock.



With his love of chairs comes a bit of a Warning !!!!!

Whilst sitting on the 3 chairs along the side of the paddock fencing, Yes ALL 3 were sat on, Colin not decided on his favourite ! It was noticed that this young man was seemingly gauging the fence height in a manner that said, "now I'm a foot or so higher off the ground, I reckon I could clear that fence if I wanted to !!!!".
The activity and noise from the other side captured his interest.

What a handsome chap !

The chairs were then moved further into the paddock, so it would be advisable for anyone giving Colin paddock time to have the chairs away from the fencing!

He had a good old run around the paddock and a few pics taken on the podium, similar to Tyler and settled down a bit. Quick for a big unit !


He was acting a bit needy and if I stopped the head or belly rubs, he would grab my hand back as if to say " nobody told you to stop !"

Tyler says it's ok to have a kip here !

I have never noticed this before but then again we've always been out walking. Maybe he is still just a bit in secure and needs to settle in to kennel life.

A lovely boy who has so much to offer. Handsome, clever !, and although we haven't really seen it in full bloom yet, I suspect a personality as big as his head and heart.

What's all that noise over there ?