Floki
Spaniel Mix | 4 Years | MALe | 26 lbs
QUICK FACTS: ✔️ Good with kids! ✔️ Crate trained! ✔️ Potty trained! ✔️ Friendly! ✔️ Likes to play! ✔️ Could do well in an apartment! ✔️ Okay for beginner dog owner!
Floki has been adopted!
Floki, (Flow-Key) is ready to find his forever home. This soft and silky, short and stocky, playful and active dog is a delight.
Floki loves everyone he meets. He greets people as if each of them was a long lost friend. It's not long before he flops down, rolls over and welcomes a new person to give him a good old fashioned belly rub. In our daily life, he enjoys being close by but is not a Velcro dog. He will lay right next to me for a bit but then likes some space and moves to the other end of the couch or down onto the floor. But never fear, if you get up and move to a new location in the house he will be right behind you and settling near by.
Floki loves his toys. He likes to chase them, chew them and hide them. He will initiate play time by bringing a toy to me and if I don't get the hint he will add a little vocal encouragement to play. He likes to chase and retrieve or chase and chew more than play tug of war. If you give him a long term chew toy, perhaps a bully stick, he won't eat it. Instead he will tour the house looking for a hiding place. If the chew toy is discovered, under our bed pillows, for example, he will take it and search out a new location to stash it. Eventually he will chew and consume the toy but it could take weeks! Such a silly guy.
Floki has learned lots of things while at our home. He knows here, sit, lie down, stay, kennel up, wait at the door, leave it, find it, off, and a distraction game called-1, 2, 3. He has learned to go potty outside-100% of the time and will give a vocal reminder if needed. He has not marked in our house since the first week he was here. That behavior vanished after he was neutered. He didn't even mark at 2 homes he stayed at when we went out of town. He walks relatively well on a leash but does have a strong desire to eliminate chipmunks, rabbits, and squirrels from the face ot the earth so hold on tight when you walk him.
Floki is working on his social skills when meeting other dogs. He gets excited when approaching another dog and when they meet he often forgets all proper etiquette and social norms. He can get snappy or bark aggressively. He can behave well when a dog passes by on the opposite side of the street. He has also gone on parallel walks, (the other dog walking close but not within touching distance) with 3 different dogs and was a proper gentleman. Floki's other flaw is he is not crazy about long car rides. He tends to whine and fuss in the car. He has never gotten car sick though and that is a plus!
Floki stays in his kennel when we leave him alone and he sleeps in another kennel in our bedroom at night. Occasionally he will give a vocal protest when kenneled: perhaps he thinks our bedtime is too early or we are secretly sitting on the back deck without him, and both have been true. But for the most part he is quiet when we leave and is always quiet when we return. He would probably be fine free roaming in the house because he has never chewed on anything that didn't belong to him. We have never tried to let him free roam because he does well in his kennel and we feel he is safe and secure there.
Floki is a genuinely sweet dog who loves life and people. He will make a great addition to someone's life.
