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by Judy P on 12 September 2011 - 14:09
There is a beautiful make GSD named Max who needs a foster or home quickly. He was recently adopted from a shelter in northern Michigan but he has more prey drive than his new family can handle as he killed 3 chickens. He nneds a place quickly or he will be sent back to the shelter. Please pm me if you can help.
by hexe on 14 September 2011 - 06:09
Max now has a foster home, and he'll be arriving here this coming Sunday. My chickens learned a long time ago that going into the fenced in place attached to the big house is poultry suicide, so I don't expect to have any issues with chicken killing (and even if he did get a few, so what? The hawks get a few every year as well...that's the price the chickens have to pay to be free-range birds).
by Judy P on 14 September 2011 - 16:09
I cannot think you enough for offering your home to Max. He is a beautiful fellow and deserves only the best!
by Ruger1 on 15 September 2011 - 16:09
What a happy ending..: ) Hoping the best for Hexe and Max!!!
by vomeisenhaus on 16 September 2011 - 01:09
Was this dog adopted from the roscommon county mi. Animal shelter a cple months ago? (Give or take). I live in northern mich and I believe I know the dog and the owner who lost him..... dog actually lived about 2 1/2 miles from me. Kurt
by hexe on 22 September 2011 - 06:09
Figured I'd post a quick follow-up on this fellow:
Max is a very, very sweet dog. Weighs 116#, but is only about 25" tall. MASSIVE bone, though, and not fat in any normal sort of way--you can easily feel his ribs, but he's got a humongous butt and shoulders as wide as a linebacker's.
I initially agreed to take him in as a foster, but it's unlikely that anyone is going to consider adopting him, because it's a pretty sure bet that he's got discoid lupus, or pemphigus, or both...and that means lifelong autoimmune ailment that will have him on prednisone for some sort of time frame. Possible it could be managed so that there's just occasional breaks and lesions develop, which would get dealt with by doing a round of pred and then tapering him off; but it's also possible he'll need to stay on pred all the time in order to keep his nose & lower jaw from erupting again. Basic labwork all looked good, especially for a dog that will be 8 in Feb.; Friday he goes back to the vet's to have biopsy tissue samples collected from the nasal planum and underside of the mandible, and have an odd growth removed from the outer surface of a rear paw. Also going to draw blood to send out for MSU thyroid panel, and ANA & LE (both tests for autoimmune disease). So I suspect he's just going to stay here with me for the rest of his days, and we'll work it all out. At least I get my veterinary meds at cost...
He's been good so far with housebreaking, no accidents. Crated both dogs when I worked today, so no trouble there, either. He and Rykkah are getting on well, playing hard, though he does have a tendency to try and not only mount her, but to actually breed her...annoying, and he's been neutered since he was a year old. Despite having killed 3 chickens at the adoptive home he had gone to, he hasn't done more than cast a passing, rather disinterested glance at the chickens so far--but they've just been walking around, haven't been running, so maybe that's why. Ditto his interest in my cows at present. Doesn't really listen well, doesn't seem to have had much (any) training. Very friendly, very good with other dogs (was very nice to puppy, small dogs, medium dogs that mobbed him when we walked into the groomer's yesterday, even the yappy ones).
So here he is:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/902223/2162528
Max is a very, very sweet dog. Weighs 116#, but is only about 25" tall. MASSIVE bone, though, and not fat in any normal sort of way--you can easily feel his ribs, but he's got a humongous butt and shoulders as wide as a linebacker's.
I initially agreed to take him in as a foster, but it's unlikely that anyone is going to consider adopting him, because it's a pretty sure bet that he's got discoid lupus, or pemphigus, or both...and that means lifelong autoimmune ailment that will have him on prednisone for some sort of time frame. Possible it could be managed so that there's just occasional breaks and lesions develop, which would get dealt with by doing a round of pred and then tapering him off; but it's also possible he'll need to stay on pred all the time in order to keep his nose & lower jaw from erupting again. Basic labwork all looked good, especially for a dog that will be 8 in Feb.; Friday he goes back to the vet's to have biopsy tissue samples collected from the nasal planum and underside of the mandible, and have an odd growth removed from the outer surface of a rear paw. Also going to draw blood to send out for MSU thyroid panel, and ANA & LE (both tests for autoimmune disease). So I suspect he's just going to stay here with me for the rest of his days, and we'll work it all out. At least I get my veterinary meds at cost...
He's been good so far with housebreaking, no accidents. Crated both dogs when I worked today, so no trouble there, either. He and Rykkah are getting on well, playing hard, though he does have a tendency to try and not only mount her, but to actually breed her...annoying, and he's been neutered since he was a year old. Despite having killed 3 chickens at the adoptive home he had gone to, he hasn't done more than cast a passing, rather disinterested glance at the chickens so far--but they've just been walking around, haven't been running, so maybe that's why. Ditto his interest in my cows at present. Doesn't really listen well, doesn't seem to have had much (any) training. Very friendly, very good with other dogs (was very nice to puppy, small dogs, medium dogs that mobbed him when we walked into the groomer's yesterday, even the yappy ones).
So here he is:
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/902223/2162528
by Skrook051 on 22 September 2011 - 16:09
hexe you are a saint. I wish more people were like you. The world would be a much nicer place!!!!
by beetree on 22 September 2011 - 16:09
Max seems to have lucked out, landing in your lap, Hexe. Those photos show some very, happy dogs.
Seems there is always "more" to the story, more often than not. Unless you think it was the stress of being rehomed that brought on the immune issues?
Seems there is always "more" to the story, more often than not. Unless you think it was the stress of being rehomed that brought on the immune issues?
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