Dog awaits forever-home after four years in kennels

Blackpool Gazette

Meet Bear - a rescue dog who is waiting for his forever-home after spending four-years in kennels.   Elizabeth Cooper, a volunteer dog walker, says Bear has been overlooked because he is 'not cute and small' and he can be overly enthusiastic - but he would make the ideal pet for a patient person who enjoys walking.  To find out more about Bear or enquire about adopting him, visit https://www.facebook.com/oehfoundation or email  dogonastring@hotmail.co.uk

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00:00 Poor Bear, he did have a home over four years ago with a gentleman, but the gentleman changed

00:09 his job or I don't know what the circumstances were and he couldn't keep him, so he had to

00:14 go into kennels.

00:18 It's not cute, it's not fluffy and he's not small, which is what people want, possibly

00:25 because he's a boy.

00:27 Everyone seems to want girls.

00:29 When he meets people he's quite enthusiastic, a lot of people don't want that.

00:36 People want a dog that they can just put a lead on and go for a walk and stroke.

00:42 I know Bear now and I can do that to him, I can stroke him and we've got a connection

00:49 and I would have Bear if I didn't have dogs.

00:53 He spent more of his life in a kennel than out of it and the thing is they become institutionalised

00:59 as well.

01:00 As I said, he gets to the point where he doesn't know anything else but us, this little bit

01:07 of surrounding in his kennel and it's a shame, it really is.

01:10 He just likes walking.

01:13 It's going to be somebody that likes walking, it doesn't have to be a ten mile walk, a mile

01:19 walk in the morning, half a mile in the afternoon, or perhaps a bit in the evening in summer.

01:27 Really just to spend time with him, it's like when you meet somebody that's going to be

01:33 significant in your life, you want to get to know them first.

01:36 I'm just hoping and praying that his lucky star is going to come along and somebody is

01:40 just going to come along and just think, yeah, let's do it.

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