9/1/2010 The lovely Princess Tara Banana is off to her new home today. We wish her lots of luck and hope she’s soon settled.

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Princess Tara Banana is a lovely white boxer girl who came into the care of the Oldies Club because her elderly owners were unable to continue to care for her due to illness.

Tara was 9 years old at the end of December 2009, and is a healthy girl who is in excellent condition. She is a fairly small boxer. She loves playing with balls and rubber toys, and will ‘talk’ to them as she plays in the house. She specially loves playing in water with her ball.

As long as Tara gets a couple of good walks a day, she is very happy to spend a lot of the rest of the time snoozing, with the occasional break for a cuddle or to play ball.

07/01/2009 – Tara Banana is reserved and should be off to her forever home as soon as the snow melts!

Unlike many boxers, Tara generally walks very nicely on the lead and doesn’t generally pull at all – though she can pull a little if she gets excited and sometimes needs a gentle reminder that pulling isn’t wanted. She is good offlead, although she does find her ball very very exciting, so if she’s carrying her ball she may need a couple of reminders before she can focus on anything else!

Tara gets on well with other dogs, and should fit in well in a house with other dogs, although her main focus is people, and she would also be quite happy as an only dog as long as she got plenty of attention and cuddles. Tara ignores cats, and is currently fostered in a house with cats: we think she would probably be fine with almost any other pet, as she doesn’t seem to have any desire to chase anything but balls. However, she is probably not an ideal pet if you have horses – although she is fine with ponies without riders, she seems to find the sight of horse riders quite scary, and will bark at them if you don’t keep a very careful eye on her.

Tara is fine with children too.

Tara had lived in the same home from a puppy, so she was understandably very stressed after losing her home and family. She was so worried to start with that she started making puddles on the floor in the house. She is now feeling much happier and more confident, and this has stopped. We are hopeful that she will not find moving to her new forever home quite so worrying, but it’s important that her new owners understand that they may need to mop up a few times before she settles in.

Tara is spayed, vaccinated, wormed and flea treated.

See Tara in action here:

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If you’d like to enquire about Tara, please refer to our Adoption Procedures for information about the adoption process. You can then contact an Oldies Club rehoming co-ordinator as follows:

Email: rehome@oldies.org.uk
Telephone: 0844 586 8656

Tara can be rehomed anywhere in the UK, subject to a satisfactory home visit, but note that you will be required to travel to the foster home to meet her.

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If you would love to offer a home to an oldie but your circumstances aren’t suitable, perhaps you would be kind enough to sponsor one of the special oldies we are caring for that, due to health problems, are unlikely to be offered a permanent home.