The little eleven-year-old male Ratero has been with us in the animal shelter for a few weeks now. He needed some time to cope with the new situation and go through his health check. Sasha has landed with us because his old master has become a foster care case and could no longer take care of him – and so the little dog senior is now sitting with us in the animal shelter.

Sasha is a smart, loveable, friendly (when he knows the people and knows that they are nice to him) little guy, but he certainly has character and a will of his own. He probably didn’t really have much contact with other dogs, because he was probably alone a lot with his old master. But so far he is actually friendly towards other dogs, but usually only briefly interested or he simply ignores them completely.

He seems to have no problem at all with cats – he also usually ignores them.

Since we know that he was mostly with his old master, a quiet couple or of course a quiet single person with a lot of time would probably be ideal for him. People who can get involved with him and take him as he is now with his eleven years and his previous history. When Sasha trusts his caregiver, he is very affectionate and loves attention and caresses very much.

Sasha always had the opportunity to be in a garden and so it would be great if his new people also had a garden or if they lived close to nature. Of course, he should still be allowed to live in the house with his family as a full member of the household. Sasha doesn’t really like being alone at the moment and suffers a lot from the situation in the animal shelter – we can’t replace his family.

He is already neutered, fully vaccinated and tested negative for leishmaniasis.

Now he just lacks the right person for his retirement in security.