How big? Smaller side of medium as adult (estimated)
How old? Puppy (DOB 07.03.2025)
Male or female? Female
Living with kids? I can live with children (8+)
Living with dogs? I can live with other dogs
Resident dog required? Preferred
Living with cats? I’ve not been tested with cats
Where can I live? I’d like a calm, semi-rural home with a garden
Where am I from? Cyprus

About Olive

At the beginning of May, our Head of Adoptions, Eve, was alerted to a family of dogs living on a disused piece of farmland in the middle of nowhere. The dogs had been reported to have been terrified, but one by one she managed to lure the puppies to safety. As soon as the pups saw her approaching, they all ran to their safe places.

Scout had dug a burrow in a huge dried out pile of animal manure, which is probably where she raised the pups, and Olive and Clover disappeared into the hole. Wren, Minnow and Poppy backed themselves into a corner and lay flat among the long grass. After two hours, one by one, they were safely in the back of Eve’s car.

All of the puppies were frozen with fear when they were first rescued. Their interactions with humans had probably been extremely limited and it’s likely they’d never really been handled or up close to them before. It took a while before the pups would warm to anyone at the shelter and they watched their mum closely to figure out how they should behave. They were then integrated with other more confident puppies who helped boost their socialisation skills and they have made good progress since then.

Olive is a feisty little monkey and such a fun time! She’s not 100% confident around people just yet, but she’s getting there and she pushes herself out of her comfort zone slowly but surely. She’s eager to try and sit in your lap and chew your shoelaces, and gets very excited when you pet her or play with her, but doesn’t quite know how to respond! At the moment she gets super giddy and sort of flails her front legs in the air like a rearing horse - she’s so funny to watch! She loves playing with her sisters, and with other dogs outside of her littermates too, and she’s not afraid to yap for what she wants if she’s being ignored, be it dinner or affection! She definitely needs some continued socialisation and basic training, but she is going to be a wonderful companion given the time and focus she needs.

Olive would be best suited to a semi-rural home away from any busy areas, and with a family who can take things slowly and gently. She has never known a life without other dogs, and because the puppies had such a rough start in life we do think that she would do better in a home with another resident dog to learn from and seek reassurance from.