
09/10/2025
Meet Ivy.
Have you ever seen a dog go bananas for bananas? If not, you’ve clearly never met Ivy a meatball who loves to snuggle, play doggy brain teaser treat puzzles, and to give the saddest/most sincere puppy eyes while begging for dog-safe fruits & vegetables. She gets along great with cats & loves kids of all ages, but she seems to like other dogs on a case by case basis.
Despite her rough start being kept malnourished in a cage for the first few years of her life & never having a chance to learn how to be a dog, Ivy is a mix of total sweetheart and smiley goofball. She has grown in leaps and bounds since being taken into rescue and becoming a foster dog and is now healthy, happy, heartworm free, and loving life as a couch potato!
Ivy is very trainable with treats and positive reinforcement, so far she has learned sit, down, kiss, and stay! Plus she is beginning to learn shake, over (jump), & spin. Because of her past being locked in a crate, Ivy doesn’t do well with crate training, but she is all set for the day as long she has breakfast, a walk, and toys/bones she can chomp on. Ivy tends to gnaw lightly when she gets a lil anxious or over stimulated, but she has learned to correct and redirect to toys beautifully in her foster home and she also comes with a thundervest for when things get a little too scary!
Once Ivy decides you are her person/people, she will look at you with absolute adoration and want to be near whatever room in the house you’re in. Ivy isn’t overly clingy and enjoys her dog beds, but she does love to snuggle & very much appreciates being invited up on a couch or bed to cuddle together.
Ivy would love a home with a yard or an owner who will take her on a couple nice walks each day to get her sniffs out, rolling in the grass is one of her most treasured activities! A family that likes to hang out with their dog and receive lots of smiles, snuggles, and silliness in return is a perfect match for Ivy.
If interested, please complete the application at www.zeusrescues.org. Thanks! Michelle