Date of intake:: 5/25/2025

Means of surrender (length of time in previous home):: Stray, No known history

Date of assessment:: 5/27/2025

Summary:: Leash Walking Strength and pulling: Hard Reactivity to humans: None Reactivity to dogs: Moderate Leash walking comments: Becomes tense and fixates on dogs, not able to be redirected Sociability Loose in room (15-20 seconds): Distracted Call over: No approach (distracted ) Sociability comments: Sniffing around the room Soft handling: Accepts contact Exuberant handling: Accepts contact Comments: Arousal Jog comments: Follows handler readily Knock Knock comments: Approaches handler readily Toy Toy comments: No interest, No reaction

Summary:: 7/9/25: Forest Fairy greets another dog at the gate with a wiggly body. When the other dog moves away from the gate, she is tense and vocalizes. She greets another dog, who reacts to her and she is tense barking and lunging towards the gate.

Summary (5):: 8/5/25- Forest fairy is at the front of her kennel with a neutral body, she is easily leashed. When exiting the room she has a slight pull towards the passing kennels. She is taken for a street walk. She walks on a loose leash, she is aloof with handler. They offer her treats which she gently takes. She sniffs around and has no reaction to people passing her. She has a slight pull towards various spots to sniff. A small dog is crossing the street, Forest fairy looks at them with a slight tense body. Handler keeps walking and she follows them. She allows the handler to pet her head, neck and back. She is easily clipped and returned to kennel without issue. 7/30/25: Forest Fairy is at the front of the kennel with a tense body and slow wagging tail. She is jumping up and pushing off the side walls of the kennel. She is easily leashed and is taken out of the kennel. Forest Fairy pulls hard while pushing off the kennel walls towards the passing kennels. She is kept away and is taken to the street. On the street, Forest Fairy pulls moderately and walks ahead of the handler. She is aloof and is heavily panting. She stops to sniff around and relieve herself before she is walked back to the shelter. Forest Fairy pulls hard back into the room bouncing off the wall. A toy is tossed into the kennel and she goes after it. The leash is removed without issue. 07/24/25: Forest Fairy is standing on hindlegs high pitch barking as handler approaches. She takes treats through kennel door. Forest Fairy is leashed with ease. When exiting kennel, handler attempts to use leash pressure to pull her toward wall of room to have handler's body between Forest Fairy and kennels; Forest Fairy pulls with high pressure behind handlers legs to hard bark and stare at neighboring kennel with stiff body. While exiting kennel room Forest Fairy is barking and visually fixated on dogs with furrowed brow. On sidewalk, Forest Fairy maintains consistent moderate to hard pulling. When seeing dogs either down the sidewalk (30feet away) or across the street, Forest Fairy visually fixates with stiff body and furrowed brow. Forest Fairy does take treats, but not consistently when visually fixated. Forest fairy re-enters MACC, upon entering kennel room resumes barking and pulling toward kennels. Forest Fairy does re-enter kennel safely and takes treats through kennel door.

Summary (6):: 07/17/25: Forest Fairy is standing neutral body with intermittent alert barking and standing on hind legs. Forest Fairy takes treats through kennel door, is leashed easily. Upon exiting kennel Forest Fairy pulls hard, turns head toward kennels and hard barks. Handler uses leash pressure to pull her out of kennel room. Once on sidewalk Forest Fairy maintains mostly light leash pulling, neutral to mild tense body. Forest Fairy checks in with handler for verbal cues, takes treats when offered. Forest Fairy slows pace of walk noticeably when walking back toward MACC, walks with loose leash. Forest Fairy re-enters kennel room with less intensity compared to when exiting, but kennel fighting is still present. Forest Fairy takes treats when offered after re-entering kennel. 7/5/25: Forest Fairy is standing at the front of her kennel as the handler approaches. She begins barking and jumping at the door as the handler unlocks it. She is able to be leashed while being distracted with treats. Once leashed, she pulls hard out of kennel and was able to be distracted with treats on the ground as the handler tossed them when she tried to bark at the dogs in kennel. She is then taken outside for a walk. On the walk, she would pull hard ahead and would jump up on the handler and try to get treats out of their treat pouch. She is comfortable siting for the handler to receive treats. She pulls hard on the way back to kennel and is able to follow as treat trail back to kennel. 07/05/25: ACS noted that a treat trail is used to get Forest Fairy out of kennel. 06/27/25: Forest Fairy is reported by staff during her AM walk to be intensely kennel fighting and pushing off the wall when exiting the room. A member of K9 behavior arrives to assist in her midday walk. Handler pre-emptively creates a trail of treats leading outside the room, more treats are then used to distract Fairy and leash her. She follows the treat trail out the room pulling moderately, she is fed more treats while waiting for the elevator and accepts them with mild/moderate pressure. She is taken to the street for her walk, during which she continues to moderately pull. She passes people on the street without issue and accepts treats outside which is helpful in redirecting Fairy when spotting dogs. She is walked for a while and sniffs around outside and uses the bathroom during her walk. After a while she is brought back to the care centers, she spots a dog in the hallway and pulls hard toward them and is difficult to redirect even with treats. When returning her to kennel handler tosses more treats which she follows initially but begins ignoring the closer she gets to kennel. She does not attempt to kennel fight and returns without further issue.

Summary (7):: 6/21/25- Forest fairy is jumping up on her kennel door and barking at handler when they approach with a neutral body, handler presents a treat. She takes with slight pressure and is easily leashed. When exiting the room Forest fairy tries to cage fight and passing the pop up crates. She is taken for a street walk. She is social with handler and continuously takes treats throughout the walk. When passing people she pulls toward wanting to greet, handler keeps her on a short leash. When there is a dog walking towards handler and Forest fairy they go into the street and handler feeds Forest treats to keep her focus on them. She follows the command to sit and stays focused on handler while being rewarded. Once the dog has past they return to the sidewalk. When returning to the building she pulls hard. She is easily clipped and when passing a kennel in the hall way Forest spins quick behind handler's legs to attempt to cage fight with a pop up crate dog. Handler pulls Forest away and when returning into the room, she again cage fights. She is returned to kennel without issue. 6/7/25: Forest Fairy is laying down at the front of her kennel as handler approaches. She is comfortable taking treats and is able to be leashed with ease. She is then taken outside for a walk. On the walk, she would walk next to the handler with a neutral body frame and had no reactions to people passing by. She becomes tense and will hard stare at dogs that were across the street. She is able to be redirected with treats, but she then goes back to looking for the dog even when they are out of sight. She is able to return back to her kennel with no issues. 5/27/25: Forest Fairy is at the front of the kennel with a wiggly body and wagging tail. She is easily leashed and taken to the street where she pulls very hard. Handler stops and Forest Fairy allows the handler to make a leash harness. She still continues to pull hard while on the harness. Forest Fairy sees a small dog outside and hard stares at the dog with a tense body. Handler has to physically move her away to break her line of sight. Forest Fairy relieves herself and continues pulling. She sees the small dog again and becomes tense and pulls towards the dog. A squeaker is used and she disengages and continues walking, not looking towards the squeaker. Forest Fairy is brought to the assessment room where she approaches the assessor with a soft body and wagging tail. She takes treats gently and allows collaring. After her assessment she is walked back to her kennel and returned without issue. NR

Date of intake:: 5/25/2025

Summary:: Neutral body and wagging tail

ENERGY LEVEL:: We have no history on Forest Fairy so we cannot be certain of their behavior in a home environment. However, they will need daily mental and physical activity to stay engaged and exercised. We recommend long-lasting chews, food puzzles, and hide-and-seek games, in additional to physical exercise, to positively direct their energy and enthusiasm.

BEHAVIOR DETERMINATION:: Level 3

Potential challenges: : On-leash reactivity/barrier frustration

Potential challenges comments:: On Leash Reactivity: Forest Fairy has been observed to becomes tense and fixate on dogs while on leash. This behavior is not able to be redirected easily. Forest will need positive reinforcement, reward based training to teach them to look at you rather than other dogs. We recommend a front clip harness to help manage this behavior. Please see handout on On Leash Reactivity and Barrier Frustration.