ADOPTED!

Meet Juliet! She is a 5-year-old female yellow English Labrador Retriever with a sweet face and expressive brown eyes. Juliet was surrendered to WCLRR by people who could no longer care for her. She lived outside with another dog has had puppies in the past. When she came to WCLRR, she was spayed and had surgery on her left eye for entropion. In this condition, the eyelashes grow inward and irritate the eye. However, the procedure did not impair her vision, and her eye is healing well.

Juliet is a medium activity dog that adores being with her people. She loves to snuggle with her people and give them kisses. Juliet prefers to be inside with her people, although she enjoys a good game of fetch, and her foster thinks she may enjoy swimming. Juliet enjoys walks but is very strong and pulls on the leash, so her new family will want to work with her on leash training. Not surprisingly, she loves to eat – she is a lab, after all!

Juliet knows her name and comes when called, and she knows “sit.” Her foster has found that while Juliet may not know other formal commands, she quickly determines what you want her to do. Juliet can be uncertain and fearful about new things at first, but she is a quick learner!

Juliet is house-trained and quickly learns to use the dog door. She has not had an accident in her foster home.

Juliet is not crate trained and is somewhat suspicious of them. However, she sleeps quietly through the night and doesn’t mind if she’s on a dog bed in her foster parents’ bedroom or the kitchen with her foster dog siblings. She is very polite in the morning and sleeps until her people get up.

Juliet’s foster family has three other dogs, two male Bernese Mountain dogs and one female Lab. When Juliet first arrived at her foster home, she snapped to warn the other dogs off. She was likely afraid in the new place, and after all the changes she had been through. Juliet did not bite or growl but let them know she wanted her space. She is now comfortable with the other dogs and spends time with them, but she does like to be in charge. There are also cats at the foster home, but they do not interact with the dogs. Juliet was interested in the cats, but she was not allowed to meet them.

Juliet is not generally a barker, but she will bark when a person or dog is on the opposite side of the fence in her foster yard. She will stop when told “no” or if her name is called, or people just come over to say hello to her. Her foster says that Juliet has settled in nicely over time. She thinks that much of Juliet’s early behavior was a reaction to a new environment and will subside as Juliet becomes more comfortable in her new home.

Juliet would do well in a home with an individual, couple, or family with children. While she does bark at new people if they are outside, she has no problem with anyone new coming into the house. However, Juliet can be a little mouthy if there is a lot of commotion or excitement when new people come into the home. She would be fine as an only dog and could do well with other dogs, but there would need to be a careful introduction first to make sure they all get along.

Juliet is spayed, up to date on her vaccines, and microchipped.