Hazel is a loving, sweet 4.5 year old liver-spotted (brown spots) female Dalmatian. We’ve had Hazel since she was a puppy but unfortunately we’re just now finding out that she doesn’t do well with babies or small children. We have a small child and Hazel is resource guarding her favorite spots, which has caused her to be aggressive with our son and other dog. We feel it’s best for Hazel and our child to find Hazel a new loving home with no small children.
She is deaf (which means she sleeps through everything and loud noises like fireworks, storms, or the doorbell never bother her!) but she knows a couple simple hand signals for “come” and “sit”. She’s completely house trained and seems to be okay with being walked or having a fenced-in yard. She loves to go on walks and it does help her anxious tendencies to be walked often. She’s typically very chill during the day and all she really wants to do is follow you around and sleep on the couch. Hazel is crate trained and she sleeps in her crate with no issues through the night. She’s very cuddly and likes A LOT of attention.
While she doesn’t do well with young children, she has been around older children and she’s great with them. We think if a child is old enough to understand they can’t touch her when she’s sleeping or spook her since she’s deaf, she would do okay with older kids in the house.
We have another dog in the house currently with Hazel and she doesn’t get along with him. They don’t physically fight but Hazel is very possessive of her things and resource guards what she thinks are hers (the couch, her food bowl) from the other dog. She will growl and lunge for the other dog if she feels he’s getting too close to her things. We think Hazel would be happiest as the only pet in the house.
Besides needing to be the only pet in a house with no young children, Hazel is very sweet and snuggly with her people. She loves to try and climb into your lap and rub her face on your face to show her affection. We’ve never had issues with her meeting new people who visit. She does get very excited sometimes and jump up on people but really she just wants to be pet by everyone. She is spayed, and is up to date on all of her vaccinations.
Hazel is currently on medication for anxiety. She’s been taking this medicine for about a month and we’re hopeful that once she’s settled into her new forever home, she’ll be able to wean off the anxiety medicine. Hazel is currently experiencing pinnal vasculitis on the tips of her ears - the cause is still unknown but it may be an immune response to her receiving the rabies vaccine last fall. To heal the vasculitis, Hazel is taking an oral medicine and receiving a topical ointment on her ears. We expect these medicines will stop once her ears are healed. A vet has also noticed that Hazel does not respond well to things in her peripheral vision during exams so she may have a vision deficit in that area but Hazel has not seen an ophthalmologist or been diagnosed with any kind of blindness.