❗🚨 URGENT – COMMITTED FOSTER NEEDED 🚨❗
💙🐶 STRIKE – PLEASE DON’T LET KENNELS BREAK THE BOY WE’RE TRYING SO HARD TO SAVE 🐶💙
📍 Currently in emergency foster: Trefriw, Wales LL27
🙏 WE NEED TWO “C”s FOSTER: CONFIDENT & COMMITTED and COLLIE EXPERIENCE
🔄 UPDATE FROM EMERGENCY FOSTER
We are incredibly grateful to the wonderful emergency foster who stepped in when we were absolutely desperate a few days ago and gave Strike somewhere safe to go. ❤️
But this was only a SHORT-TERM arrangement. Strike is still urgent — VERY URGENT — and we desperately need to find his next place before kennels become our only option.
After having Strike for several days, his foster has been able to understand him much better. And underneath all those Collie nerves is a dog with enormous potential.
🐾 Meet Strike
Strike is a 4-year-old Border Collie, lower-medium in size.
He is active, intelligent and loves having something to do. His foster tried him in a waist harness for running and Strike absolutely loved it! 🏃♂️🐕 He could be a brilliant companion for an active, Collie-experienced person.
In the house he is fantastic — fully housetrained and asks to go outside. Once Strike decides he can trust you, he trusts deeply and becomes incredibly loving and affectionate.
And one thing has become particularly clear: Strike ADORES men. 💙
His current foster is a man, and Strike is incredibly loving with him. With women he can initially be much more wary and has growled on a couple of occasions when introductions weren’t managed well. We don’t know what happened in his previous life and don’t want to make assumptions, but for whatever reason, he currently finds men much easier to trust.
✨ Highlights ✨
• SIZE: Lower-medium – approx. 18 kg
• NEUTERED: No – vet does not recommend rushing neutering
• CHARACTER: Intelligent • Active • Loving once trusting • Loyal • Sensitive
• DOGS: Best with an older, confident, well-balanced dog or as the only dog
• CATS/OTHER ANIMALS: No – reactive to cats and sheep
• CHILDREN: Adult-only home
• HOUSETRAINED: Yes
🐾 What You Need To Know
Strike’s foster describes him as a typical sensitive, nervy Collie who can present very strongly when he feels unsure.
He can be reactive towards unfamiliar dogs when out or during initial meetings. With younger or submissive dogs he can become too controlling, barking or growling, while with older, confident dogs he tends to respect their boundaries and will submit.
He needs careful introductions to unfamiliar people too — ideally outside, without pressure.
This isn’t a dog for someone who will panic at a growl or expect him to trust everybody immediately. Strike communicates when he is uncomfortable and needs a confident, calm person who can read him, give him clear boundaries and help him make better choices.
His foster says:
“He really could be a brilliant dog, but it will take a bit of work.”
And after everything Strike has been through, we believe that too. ❤️
🏡 Ideal Home
COLLIE EXPERIENCE is very important.
Strike needs a confident but kind person who understands sensitive working dogs and is prepared to give him TIME to settle rather than judge him during his first few days.
He needs an active home, a secure private garden, plenty of physical exercise and mental stimulation, and calm, consistent boundaries.
Adult-only. No cats or small animals. A pet-free home may be simplest, although an older, confident and well-balanced dog could potentially be considered following careful introductions.
Most of all, Strike needs STABILITY.
💔 Strike has already escaped being put to sleep and has been moved far too many times. His emergency foster has given him another lifeline — but cannot keep him long-term.
Please don’t let his next move be into kennels. For an already insecure, highly sensitive Collie, we genuinely fear what another enormous upheaval and kennel environment could do to him.
🙏 Please don’t offer Strike two days. Offer him the time to trust you.
Somewhere there must be a Collie person who will look at this complicated, loving, clever boy and see not just the things he still needs to learn — but the brilliant dog he could become. 💙
🩺 Health Information
Strike is healthy with no known medical conditions. He is not currently neutered; vets have advised against rushing neutering while he remains anxious and unsettled, and this can be reviewed once he is emotionally stable.
💌 If you can offer Strike the CONFIDENT & COMMITTED foster home he desperately needs: please fill in the Foster Form: https://forms.gle/yE66hpgwdU9bnQsAA