Beautiful, scrappy 17-pound Button is on the lookout for her perfect home and family! She requires a special home with firm boundaries and significant training experience who can provide the routine and structure in which she thrives. Button has blossomed with strong leadership, and her huge personality and zest for life shine through–she is a joyful, hilarious, and affectionate girl! Button had a very tough start in life, and she deserves to have a loving, patient forever home. Any potential adopters should review her bio carefully. See Button’s antics on her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ButtonFBRNFoster/

Button’s amazing qualities:

• Once her daily routine, boundaries, and trust are established, her normal day-to-day life is manageable and fun.
• She does the best happy dance, tappy toes, head wiggles, sassy chomps, and foot kicks like a little bull when she is excited, and she is very affectionate with her people, once she knows she can trust them. One of the goofiest things she does is her daily bedfight. She is like a professional boxer and makes these little gremlin noises as she digs and punches at her bed.
• She is fully crate trained and eagerly trots into her crate for naptime during the day and also sleeps through the night in her crate.
• She is housetrained and has done extremely well on a regular schedule.
• She is smart and food motivated and has learned quite a few commands in foster care, including a very cute little sit, touch, get back, and spin. She is working on come, wait, drop, and stay.
• Nothing makes her happier than napping in a sunbeam, except maybe meal time. If her bed is in a sunbeam and the sunbeam moves, she kindly requests that her foster move her bed back into the sunbeam, thank you very much. She has even huffed at clouds in the yard when they block the sun.
• She has no known food sensitivities, and she breathes very well for a Frenchie!

Button’s challenges:

• Button has severe hip dysplasia in both hips, sensitivity in her lower back, and cannot bend her left hind knee due to an injury before being surrendered to FBRN. She has chronic pain, and the tops of the toes on her back left foot drag on the ground when she walks. She will be on pain medication for the rest of her life, but her pain is very well managed and her quality of life is excellent. She has also significantly increased her musculature in her back end through physical therapy in foster care, and she does well with hydrotherapy and her PT exercises. She walks on the grass daily, as walking on sidewalks/concrete must be strictly limited–it scrapes and injures the top of the back foot. Her forever family should be committed to getting her gentle exercise on grass, dirt paths, or other soft surfaces and potentially continue physical therapy. She should also not be allowed to engage in rough play or run off leash, per her physical therapy vet. Her foster is working with her on a little cart for her back end, but she gets around great in general and is surprisingly fast, but she is unsteady and frequently falls on slick floors. Button loves carpet and the yoga mats her foster puts down on her hardwood floors for traction.
• Button’s medication schedule is best managed by someone who works from home or is able to be home to give meds at specific times each day.
• Button must be carried up and down stairs and cannot ever be allowed to jump off of furniture. Although her current foster home has lots of stairs, her ideal home would have a patio door or other yard access without steps where Button could walk outside without being carried when she’s sore. Button generally likes being carried, though.
• Button has a bite history. She is a resource guarder (objects, food, and people), and she can be snappy when she is in pain (her pain is currently well managed). With a trainer’s guidance, her foster home has worked very hard with her on her guarding, and she’s shown tremendous improvement! It is essential that her adopters have significant experience successfully managing resource guarding. Safe handling when picking her up, wiping her bottom, etc., is very important if Button is having any sort of soreness or pain. She is muzzle trained, and her muzzle will come with her if adopted. The muzzle should always be worn during ear cleanings.
• Button has reactivity toward some other dogs and people, and boundary and territorial aggression, such as barking at neighbors on the other side of a fence and charging when guests leave the room. Strangers and houseguests can be stressful–she does best with a quiet, stable household. She has improved tremendously in the yard with neighbors and would likely improve with continued training. Button does well as an only dog, but it is possible she may be able to be integrated into a home with another dog–adopters with successful management of a multi-dog household which has included issues similar to Button’s would be considered.
• Button chews fabric to soothe, and she is a chewer, in general. She will chew holes in her beds and other fabric. She should not be given access to anything with zippers or hardware on it (she once chewed off and likely ate and passed a small metal zipper on a crate mat that was even designed for tough chewers). This behavior seems very solidly entrenched, and a vet advised that fleece is likely the safest fabric for her. Her foster manages this behavior by covering Button’s dog beds in cheap fleece throws and regularly replacing them when they get too holey. Button does pass small chunks of the blankets occasionally in her poop and should be monitored for obstructions, but the fleece throws do not seem to cause her system any problems.
• Button is very interested in the television and can react to it. Although initially not allowed to watch the TV due to reactivity, she has improved quite a bit and usually responds well to verbal correction. However, she does sometimes need to be gated where she can’t quite see the screen if she gets worked up.
• Although Button is currently in foster care with a single adult, her ideal home would have at least two adults to help manage her, and all household members should all take an active role with her daily to try and help prevent her picking a favorite and resource guarding any one of them.

FBRN does not ship dogs as cargo, so adopters are expected to pick up their dogs from their foster family. Button loves to ride in the car if that’s your choice. She is small enough to fly and breathes well, and she has successfully flown before but not with a stranger. Her barrier aggression in her travel crate may be hard to manage for a new person.

FBRN dogs are in foster care in people’s private homes. For the foster families’ safety, we do not disclose specific locations and we do not set up meet and greets prior to applications. For detailed information about the dogs in our care, please read the extensive bios on each dog.