Unnamed Poodle Shih Tzu mixes - Mother and Son Bonded Pair

Two more puppy mill rescues are at Toronto Animal Services South, this time a bonded pair of mother and son. The son is the larger of the two and at barely a year old, is acclimatizing to people much better than his mother who has been locked up way too long. She is coming around but she's still a little unsure when people approach and neither of them will go outside if I just put them on a leash. The trick is to carry the mother out and say to the son, "Look, mom's going out. You coming?" and then after a moment of consideration, the boy follows.

Once outside, the boy's quite happy to sniff around as long as you don't try to make him walk any distance away from his mother and since his mother won't walk much at all, she has to be carried around if you want to get her son to move around a bit further afield.

These are two very cute dogs but TAS is going to try to adopt them out as a bonded pair, the third such pair in the last couple of months, and it's never an easy thing to find homes for bonded pairs. In this case, there is the added bonus that they aren't quite housebroken although the son is almost there. Maybe at some point, they could be separated if no one steps forward to take them together but for now, they are the only comfort each other have in this brand new world outside the cage of the puppy mill.



The best way to check on the adoption status of this dog (and other dogs and cats and other small domestic animals) is to visit Toronto Animal Services adoption website or call 416 338 6668 for the Toronto Animal Services South shelter. If the dog is no longer on the TAS adoption website, it's probably because it's been adopted already.