Set Yourself Up for a Successful Adoption

A FREE Webinar for Romanian Rescue Adopters + FREE PDF Guide for Settling in Your New Arrival

Course Summary

The importance of ‘getting it right’ for your new Romanian (or foreign) Rescue Dog cannot be stressed enough. It is far easier to prevent problems arising than it is to try to undo them once something has happened. By sticking to a few simple guidelines when your Rescue dog first arrives at their new home with you, you can help make sure they settle quickly, happily and with as few problems as possible.

Please bear in mind, the information provided is based on my knowledge and experience of Romanian Rescue dogs, but every one of them will be different. There is no 'one size fits all' when it comes to dogs.

There can be many other contributing factors and issues and whilst it's simply not possible to cover every possible variable, I've included what I know to be the most common 'need to know' information.

You may need to know and implement all of it or only some of it or you may not even need any of it, but you will definitely need to be prepared to read and assess how your particular dog is coping with everything, and meet his/her needs as an individual.

I hope you enjoy the webinar and recommend that you read through the Free PDF guide several times, ideally before your dog arrives, and get all members of your family to read it too.

Course Curriculum

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This was brilliant, thank you so much !!! My Romanian pup arrives tomorrow

Course Price

Set Yourself Up for a Successful Adoption

Free

  • A FREE webinar for Romanian Rescue Adopters + FREE PDF guide for settling in your new arrival

Free

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Jayne Matthews

Adoption saver

We were having a nightmare time with our adopted Romanian girl and we’re starting to consider returning her to the rescue she came from. She was with a foster for a month, but we felt they’d lied to us, claiming that she was house and crate trained and was happy walking on her lead. They’d even taken her into a cafe where she’d been very good. Unfortunately, none of the above was true when we got her home. She was scared of her crate, scared of us, scared of her environment, didn’t want to get out of the car to walk, didn’t want to walk on a lead, and barked at every tiny movement from us. She barked ferociously at my husband every time she saw him, which was the worst part of all. He’d come home from work and rather than be greeted by a happy dog, he was greeted by a growling, barking dog who would run from him! Then, I saw The Dogs Point of View on YouTube and after watching decided that she was in fact ‘normal’ for a Romanian rescue and her foster guardians had unintentionally made her worse. This video taught me where I was going wrong and affirmed that she would get better, but we needed time, patience and understanding because anything new in her environment, even down to picking up a cup, would start her off until she decided whether the ‘cup’ was safe or unsafe! With this understanding came my determination, despite my health problems, that I was going to get her through to the other side through trust and confidence building exercises. She is now improving all the time, albeit only tiny, and sometimes indiscriminate to us at times, but huge steps for her.. We do not force her to do anything, unless it’s absolutely necessary for her well-being, and even then, only when she’s happy enough to take a treat. Thank you Meesh and Lynda and everybody in the community for your positive advice and comments. I now feel I haven’t failed her and I will get her through it all by working together with her needs and confidence building.

1 month ago
Mark Pearce

So much good advice/information.

It's great to be able to access this amount of pre adoption advice, knowing so much before you adopt prepares you better for what's to come good or bad. We have not yet received our dog yet but learning what we have will be such an advantage when the time comes. Thank you for the chance to learn more about Romanian rescue pets.

2 months ago
Jo Robinson

Information I wish I'd found sooner!

I adopted my rommie girl about a month ago and even though things have been pretty smooth, there are still things we could have done differently at the start. This course has got everything to help new adopters/soon-to-be-adopters navigate those early stages with their Romanian rescue dog. It's given me a better understanding and appreciation for these special dogs and I'm glad I've found Meesh's community to help me along the way!

2 months ago
Helen Margaret Whiley

Great information

Loved this introductory course. I wish I had had this info when we got our 2 Rommies all those years ago. Years on they are amazing but I could have served them better with the right information. Since then, I have volunteered at a Romanian shelter here in UK and gained a greater understanding of these fantastic dogs and am now studying for a canine behaviour diploma. I am fascinated by these 'natural' dogs and all your courses! Am doing the barking mini course which is great and would love to do the trainer course! Thank you for all the incredible training x

3 months ago
Viv O'Gorman

Great information

Having dogs most of our lives it was very informative to find out that Romanian dogs are different from ours and will be very helpful when we get ours later this month. Also knowing there is the back up help from everyone. This webinar has been extremely helpful.

4 months ago
Debbie Harwood

So much to learn!

After always having adopted dogs as puppies for most of my life, learning about the potential challenges in adopting a Romanian Rescue has been enlightening. So worth the time spent preparing myself and other members of the family.

8 months ago
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Ms Michelle Masters

Meesh Masters is the founder and business owner at The Dog's Point of View and specialises in working with Romanian & Overseas Rescue dogs, providing educational resources for their adopters via remote one to one consultations, home study courses, webinars, training programs and her popular Adopters Coaching Group - The number one resource anywhere on the internet for Romanian and Overseas rescue dog information and support.

After becoming involved with Romanian Rescue dogs in 2015, both as a support advisor to new adopters and a fosterer herself, she was led to look deeper into the thinking, feeling, emotional depths of these dogs when things began feeling different about them.

She soon realised how the Romanian dogs were different to British born dogs, that their genetics and bloodline, being from street dogs and dogs that had evolved through more natural selection, meant they seemed to be more in tune with their instinctive nature's. She went on to learn that she needed to adjust the ways she interacted with and worked with these dogs, to accommodate their more instinctive and cautious characteristics. It became very evident that these dogs responded differently to 'training' in the conventional sense at times.

And so it became her passion to share everything she was learning, and is still learning, about the Romanian Dog's Point of View with as many adopters as possible. Today she is Patron of two Romanian Rescue Charities, Cloud K9 Rescue and Annie's Trust, she is also advisor to various other rescue organisations. She runs a course for qualified trainers, The Romanian Rescue Pro Trainers program, to help other canine professionals understand more about working with Romanian & foreign rescue dogs and their families, as many of them can be quite complex compared to working with British dogs.  She has also launched an invaluable education & resource program for rescue organisations rehoming Romanian & Eastern European dogs, to help them & their volunteers to understand how to correctly support their adopters if they encounter basic problems. 

Meesh is also now a certified Dynamic Dog Practitioner which qualifies her to complete detailed assessments of dogs in the areas of biomechanics, gait, movement & posture to determine whether there are any potential pain or discomfort issues that could be contributing to behaviour.  This is an invaluable qualification to have given that her entire business focuses solely on supporting and working with adopters and canine professionals of predominantly Romanian but also other European street, rescue & shelter dogs.  With the poor start many of these dogs have in life, along with the potential for them to have sustained untreated injuries, abuse and trauma prior to adoption, being able to assess for pain in a totally hands off, non-intrusive way is often the only way they can be assessed. 

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