Here’s my shameless promotion of some of our dogs available from our rescue (southern CA, Las Vegas area, and central AZ adoptions only).
These dogs will watch your back.
http://www.gsroc.org/dogs/stitch/
http://www.gsroc.org/dogs/cheyenne-8/
http://www.gsroc.org/dogs/remington/
http://www.gsroc.org/dogs/tessa-3/
http://www.gsroc.org/dogs/bruno-ii/
http://www.gsroc.org/dogs/nikki-5/
Beautiful animals.
They are gorgeous, Chris. Just absolutely magnificent!
Remington brought me straight to tears too.
And Nikki’s bio reminds me of my Isis’s personality.
I hope everyone one of them finds a permanent home, and I wish I could take all of them.
I think if I ever won the lotto, that’s what I’d do. Big house, large land, home for dogs. But not to hoard them.
It breaks my heart thinking of German Shepherds without a home.
Good for you.
My niece does GSD rescue.
My Malinois is the most stable dog I have ever had.
Mt neighbors are afraid of him, perfect.
Best friend ever.
I don’t think I would adopt a rescue GSD again. I adopted a 2 year old and I loved him to death. After about a year with me, his guarding instincts really took over and he began barking at everything that approached me on walks. Now I had tried to be the alpha dog and keep him from feeling like he had to lead at all times. We trained a lot.
Long story short, I worked hard to socialize him and I thought he was coming along when he went off a stay command and bit a neighbor’s young child. It happened so fast that I didn’t have time to scream the word tat usually worked to recall him when he knew he was in big trouble.
I dont blame the dog. He had high prey drive and small creatures and small bodies are going to trigger that. But I did learn that there is no socializing a GSD as an adult. I utterly failed. I want to be able to walk my GSD among people. I want to avoid the aggravation and work of being constantly on guard for who is approaching and having to create distance between my dog and them.
If I lived on a ranch in the sticks where I had no people around, then I wouldn’t hesitate to get a rescue GSD. But in a suburb surrounded by masses of kids playing and other folks walking their dogs, I would never get another rescue GSD. I would get a puppy from a top breeder and socialize the dickens out of him.
Shepherds are not lovey dovey dogs and any GSD is going to cling to one owner only and is going to be wary and aloof with any and all strangers. But I want to be able to walk my dog everywhere with his being calm and reserved around strangers, not on high alert and barking at every jogger and cyclist he sees.
They took my Sheperd after he bit the child, said they would not put him down, and then they did. They destroyed him. I miss that dog more than I miss many people.