South Lincolnshire's Jerry Green Dog Rescue is thrilled to share Tammy has finally found a home

We are sure you all remember Tammy. You will have seen her here searching for her new home for a long time – two years and three days to be precise! But guess what? She has found it!

Everyone at Jerry Green is over the moon and Tammy could not be happier that she finally has somewhere to call home.

She has been adopted by a wonderful lady who came to meet her several times here at the centre before taking her home to settle her in.

Tammy is now loving life; she enjoys long walks followed by long sleeps on the sofa. We are all so pleased she finally has the life she deserves and waited so patiently for.

As an added bonus we still get to regularly see Tammy as her new owner brings her to the centre to make use of our exercise field.

Tammy loves to stretch her legs here, chasing toys around the secure field. Our field is available for anyone to hire for just £5 for a half hour slot.

Training tip: Getting your dog to settle

We did all sorts of training with Tammy while she was with us and one of the things she learnt was to settle, so we thought why not re-cap how to teach your dog to settle this week:

Man’s best friend and our constant companion, we dream of taking our dogs to the pub, out for a picnic or even to a café for a drink.

This can be hard to imagine when our dog is wriggling and excitable when we leave the house, so today we are going to look at how we can teach our dogs to settle and relax in any environment.

First, we need to give our dog a predictable signal which means to settle and relax – a bed or blanket is often easiest for this.

To start, we are going to have some treats discretely in our pocket or a treat pouch and place our dog’s settle blanket next to a sofa or chair.

With your dog on lead (if needed), sit down and drop a single treat on the blanket when our dog isn’t looking at us and is offering a calm behaviour – standing still, sitting or lying down will do.

After a few seconds, drop another treat in the same place – we are rewarding our dog for their calm behaviour when the bed is present.

Keep dropping those treats in the same place every few seconds and once our dog is offering calm behaviour more regularly reduce how often they are dropped, eg from every two seconds to every five, 10, 20 etc so our dog is doing more work for less rewards.

After you have finished practising, make sure to remove the blanket so your dog knows settle work is over.

Gradually, you should start to see increasingly more relaxed behaviours such as sitting or lying down when their blanket comes out.

Once they can settle well on it at home, you are ready to practise in the real world!