Today GDRNT took into our program SEVEN Danes! So since Friday our ranks have grown by NINE.... All pulled from kill shelters. There was not a hoarding or seizure.... Just nine Danes sitting on death row of shelters desperate to reduce ranks so none have to die. To say that it takes a village is an understatement. It takes an army. Today alone there were countless hours spent coordinating transports, foster homes and veterinary space. Hours and miles spent in personal vehicles to get these danes to the vet and the shuffling of households to get ready for another foster.
Submitted by jamie on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 4:47pm
I want you to meet Amy - an exceptional dog, but not in the traditional way. She will never be one of those search and rescue dogs featured on national news and it is not likely she will win awards in confirmation or agility trials any time soon, but Amy has won our hearts and we are so proud of all she has accomplished.
Amy’s story starts off like so many other dogs: born for the sole purpose of breeding, she was one of nine Great Danes we pulled from a bad situation southeast of Dallas.
Submitted by jamie on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 2:56pm
Guinness Murphy's early years were shaped by abandonment and pain. It is impossible to know the exact details of his early life because his family dropped him off at a kill shelter when he was about a year old. Our best guess is that he received his death sentence for being a normal Great Dane puppy.
>>>> Visit the Guinness For President Store <<<<<
Submitted by jamie on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 12:21pm
We take the naming of our danes very seriously around here. Naming rights are given to the volunteer who picks the dog up from the kill shelter and escorts it to one of our rescue vets. Shelter-to-vet transports are tough because you never know what you are going to get: a crazy, bucking bronco of a dane; a dirty, filthy, stinky, vomiting dane; a dane that looks as if it is ready to give birth…and then does…in the backseat of an SUV doing 70MPH down a highway; a dane with bleeding tumors or open sores - almost all are covered in fleas and almost all are a mess.
