Yelena says he seemed to be well cared for, loved & groomed before ending up tied to that fence.  She has attempted to find the owner, who apparently brought him to the US about a year ago, but has had no luck.

He's about 1 1/2 years old, and loved playing with some of Yelena's dogs while she was fostering him.  She found him a new home and there he will have the opportunity to meet quite a few new animals, as he is on a working farm.

Dart has found a home with two of the detectives on the case, appears to have settled in and is enjoying a relatively normal life now.  This photo was taken at his  first birthday party :-)  

He did learn to be not quite so defensive with other dogs, but we had a heck of a time trying to teach him not to bite other dogs on the rear. There were a couple of moments while he was here where I thought Alma might just eat him in retaliation. :-) 

He played with JR, Kayla, Jasmine, AlmaBear and Boby and did very well once he learned some manners. Kayla did find it necessary to teach him how to play, Alma had to correct his silliness and Boby would sit on him when he got too rowdy with Jasmine. :-) 

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Zoey is another of the numerous South Russian Ovcharkas showing up in Texas.  With the exception of Henry and Ella, all of them appear to be approximately the same age. 

Zoey is working with her new owner, who is a police officer and he's trying her out as a cadaver dog.  She resides with him and his rescue Fila Brasiliero, who works as a search and rescue dog as well as his K9 companion.

He is a big sweetheart of a boy who is justifiably wary of meeting new people, but has actually reached the point (and relatively quickly) where he is even allowing us to comb that undercoat out of him now.

He does enjoy being with other dogs, and has been adopted by a super family with a 5 year old Bernese Mountain Dog, who seems to feel that Ajax could just be fun to have around!

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JR is another of the Tibetan Mastiffs we've had the pleasure of fostering here. He, like Kody, arrived here with almost no idea of how to play.....I wish I could understand how this happens!

Kayla VERY patiently taught both boys to play bow, then to run and chase and finally to leave her alone and go play together.  The first time they did this, she stood by watching with a very approving look on her face.

JR is a very handsome young man and has gone on to his new home where he has a 5 month ld TM puppy with which to play, a 15 year old Chow, to whom he shows utmost respect (smart boy!) and a couple of neighboring TMs that routinely visit for play times.

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She is a sweetheart of a girl who was justifiably wary of meeting new people, but had actually reached the point where she allowed us to comb her and even occasionally pat her pointy head :-)

She does enjoy being with other dogs, and has been adopted by a super family with another abused rescue who is trying to tell her that life can actually be good.

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He also has quite the sense of humor and gets along well with other spayed/neutered dogs.

And our big boy has gone to his new home! He will be guarding a business for his new owner and they seem to be getting along quite well for such short acquaintance :-)  But we miss him here, as AlmaBear and Boby have lost a favorite playmate!

The shelter had already neutered him and brought him up to date on shots.  They were even willing to issue a health certificate so we could fly him out here. The friend who picked him up for me called and said "you're not getting him....he's staying with me".  And is he ever and loving every minute of it!

He's also growing into quite the handsome young man! 

Because of this, they were forced to give up their sweetheart of a boy, who gets along well with other dogs (thank GOD!!!!!!) and is great around children, as he has been raised with a young boy.  He barely arrived here before the first of the applicants for his new home pulled up. He's been doing very well in his new home and learning to obey the Caucasian/ASD X bitch who enjoys bossing him around. 

Nikki is Beau's sister from another breeding, so she was a year younger and a *little* rowdier :-)  Although she was willing to play with any of the dogs here, she and Beau had a special connection. She got along well with Kayla and that was fun to watch, because her exuberance would occasionally cause her to roll over the top of Kayla.  She would stop, check Kayla out, give her a lick, and off she'd go again.

She has gone to her forever home and has another dog to play and the family has children, so she is in in her version of absolute doggie heaven! :-)  

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Thor is a very handsome Tibetan Mastiff whose owner had no more time for him.  He arrived here with almost no idea of how to play and Kayla and the others were kept busy teaching him.  But once he had it figured out......whoa! :-)

He loves to swim and has gone to a home with another dog that presumably shares all of his interests, like swimming, sleeping, eating, swimming.....and during the sleeping part, spending most of it in silly positions on his back.

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And they have found their forever home!  We are so pleased they were able to stay together.

Zane is a Great Pyrenees/Newfoundland mix, who was dumped in a Las Vegas shelter along with another dog that was also absolutely terrified of everyone and everything and required some major "affection therapy" to get the two of them back to normal. 

He'd been here for almost two years and we thought he would be staying forever. He had finally voluntarily come to us for attention and thoroughly enjoyed running around with several of the other dogs and that gave him sufficient confidence to join them in taking breaks from their exercise time to come to us for cuddling and combing. Yeeha! He's such a sweetheart of a boy and it was truly awesome to watch him coming out of that human-moron-induced shell.

And he has a wonderful new home with owners who have the extreme patience that he requires.

Czaritsa is in her new home and doing very well. She living on a goat ranch with lots of other livestock guardians and goats and a wonderful human family and is adjusting very well to this change of venue! 

He and Zane literally spent hours romping in the pasture and on the straw bales.

Ozzie has found a new home with a wonderful couple that have provided him with a playmate in the form of a 10 year old Rottweiler bitch and a three year old coonhound who was desperate for someone with whom to roughhouse and run! 

Luka is our very special girl who caught a ride on a livestock transport from a Connecticut shelter to a foster home in Nebraska, then came the rest of the way here with the relay of a rescue railroad run.  She traveled beautifully and was quite the ambassador for the breed, as she is so well mannered. 

She is a 6 year old Caucasian, can get along with other dogs and loves being part of a family.  Her foster family in Nebraska not only offered to keep her there while we were trying to arrange transport, but then had to deal with Luka coming in with mange and then treating her and their own two dogs for this mange.  And they did so very successfully!  They also taught her some basic manners and she actually minds quite well at this time.

As beautifully behaved as she is in public, she is extremely territorial and will vigorously defend her property against all strangers, be they two- or four-legged.

And Luka has a new family!  This girl has now traveled all the way back east to live with her new family and several other dogs.

Cu Bear is another Sharplaninatz and Bella and Angel's long-time buddy. He's about 5 1/2 years old and has lived with horses, goats and children. He was not in the field with the goats, but outside their fence. Upon arrival here, he didn't seem to be interested in having lamb for their dinner, so I suspect he might work out as indoor/outdoor guardians, which he has after all, had a lot of practice doing! Cu Bear is also a sweetheart of a boy, who loves to run and play. He's very energetic and does need a lot of room, but also loves to cuddle.

Cu has now been here for 7 months and given that he was home raised, he is not adjusting well to a kennel situation, regardless of how much time he spends out running the pasture and playing with Angel. And he now has a new home and family!  He's on a working farm and has several new canine buddies and a great new family to protect.

Bobby was given to me by a friend who had imported what he thought was a pair of livestock guardians that he was wanting to breed to his own dogs and then found out that neither of them had ever been around sheep.

He thoroughly enjoyed  romping all over the fields and then taking these immense flying leaps onto a favorite crate or dog house. He's found a great home with a Caucasian bitch for a playmate.

BELA

Bela is an absolute sweetheart of a Sarplaninac that came into rescue from the midwest. She, Cu and Angel were raised with horses, goats, cats and children. Her coat was shaved before she arrived here and is growing back in very slowly, but right now she's actually blowing what little coat she has and as the temperatures are starting to drop into the 20's, I'm hoping that coat gets a move on and grows!

And Bela has gone to her new home! She now gets to watch over her new owner, a whole pack of Basset Hounds, a cat and goats. She has a large amount of acreage to cover but gets to sleep in the house at night and loves every minute of it!

Argus is an adorable 2 year male whose owner was forced to move from the country, where he had lots of room to run and only his owner to enjoy life with, to the city, where she's sharing a house with several other people. Argus needed room to roam and run and he gets along with other dogs and loves to play.

He is, however, an excellent watch dog. Even while romping and playing with the other dogs, he does not miss anything that's happening on the property and will break off from playing to go check it out. He's in his new home with a service dog and a search & rescue dog & having a blast!

Bastian immediately stole hearts and went off to his new home without ever making the trip up here to visit us. 

Mika's owner moved from New York state to Florida and decided to leave her behind.  Mika was shocked to be invited inside her foster home, but enjoyed every minute of it and could easily have become another of the couch potato types.  She is housebroken and is very insistent about being let outside when necessary.  She loves people, gets along with other dogs and will do anything to please, if that brings her some attention.  She is another of the puppy mill dogs and we have found a home for her!

She's in a home with a 7 month old Pomeranian puppy who just wants to play. If she doesn't accidentally squash the poor thing while playing, this could be a match made in heaven!  

Siksa is a lovely young  3 year old bitch who came into rescue because she had a tendency to want to jump fences to visit the neighbor's dog to play.  This was a bit scary, as the neighbors didn't realize that all that fierce noise was nothing more than play sounds and these dogs do truly play hard.  If you've never heard them before, it can sound like a war zone.  But if you stand and watch them, you can see the breaks they take while standing side by side looking ferocious and studiously not looking each other in the eye.  Then when they've had enough, they'll more than likely collapse side by side and get some much deserved sleep. 

Siksa was raised with children and another dog and during all the public trips I took with her once she arrived, she was an absolute lady.  What a sweetheart of a girl!  And she's in her new home with a Siberian mix as a playmate and 3 Jack Russell Terriers to keep her humble. She's so comfortable that she and Chernobyl, her Sibe X buddy, will actually share a bone.....wow!

Tasha is one of my own puppies and I made the first time breeder error of letting her go before 10 or 12 weeks of age and letting her go to a multi-dog household.  She is a very dominant bitch when around other dogs, except her dam & sire.  She's lovely with people and very well behaved out in public, but had to go to a home with no other dogs. 

She is now living a life of luxury with her new owner: whether he actually appreciates the fact that she likes to sleep on his leather couch is something he's not saying :-)  Tasha now has a buddy to play with. He's a German Shepherd that apparently accepted her advising him that SHE is the alpha bitch and if he wanted to hang around, he needed to understand that........

Vincenzo was turned in to a shelter in Florida, as his owners were on their way out of town:  they claimed he was "unadoptable".  Of course, so would any dog appear who had spent his life tied to a tree in the Florida heat!

He was in a foster home, is still very much feeling his oats, but has responded to a name change as a result of a joke(!)  He become more the gentleman with his foster Mom (ever since she threatened to rip his ears off and beat him with them), but still is way too aggressive around strangers.  He found his new home with his foster Mom's son and from all accounts is having the time of his life actually being part of a real family.

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