We’re on our 3rd GSD rescue. Our latest guy had health issues, his owners said they were moving and couldn’t take him. Yeah, right. He was 8 when we got him, he’s 14 now. Sure, he has some issues, what 14 year old dog doesn’t? I love GSD’s. We’re going to take a break after this one, since we rescue elder dogs. Everyone want’s puppies or young dogs, we take in the ones no one wants. It is fabulous!
Thanks for caring for the older dogs.
I am on my seventh and eighth GS rescue adoptee, five from the GSR of Orange County (CA), plus six foster dogs. All of my adoptees were hard to adopt dogs because of their age or temperment.
we just put down our beloved female rescued basset. She was our 3rd rescue, having been given up because she didn’t get along with other dogs... Until she met the boys. Lost two of those 3 to cancer. They don’t live long enough.
You and I are on the same page. Only our first dog and the third one were young (but their situations were unusual), the rest have been of "a certain advanced age."
You know intuitively that the young dogs have a good chance of adoption, the old guys, not so much, so we take them.
The downside is that you don't have them for long and you know your heart will be broken pretty darn soon, but we feel that is the way it has to be.