Sponsor this Pet!

This handsome young boy is Dresden, and it won’t take a love potion for him to claim your heart. Just look at that happy face! While we don’t know an exact age on Dresden, we expect he is a young adult, maybe a year or so, based on his bouncy, goofy personality. Sweet and charming, silly and energetic, loyal and loving, Dresden would do best in a home that appreciates his puppy antics and knows how to guide him gently in training. He is a smart boy and has very quickly picked up a few basic commands: he knows “sit” and “go to bed” as his kennel command. He walks well on a leash and consistent walks and training will quickly make him a pro! He is very eager to please. His puppy excitement does still get the better of him at times, but redirection and treats for good behavior are helping him learn what we expect of him. Dresden is very friendly and playful with other dogs of all sizes and especially loves playing chase and wrestling with his foster sibling, Mouse. He can be a little pushy with his affection, but does understand and back off when he is corrected by other dogs. In typical Shepherd fashion, Dresden displays a Velcro-style attachment to his humans. He is great pup, with a fantastic temperament!

Dresden's adoption fee is $350, all of which goes back into offseting our high-cost vetting expenses and rescuing more dogs. We are a 100% volunteer-run rescue group and rely on adoption fees and donations to continue saving lives. Adoption fees include spay/neuter, current on age- appropriate vaccinations, fecal, deworming, flea/tick and heartworm preventative, heartworm tested if old enough (and treated if positive), and microchipped. Please visit http://heartlandgsrescue.rescuegroups.org/info/adoption for more information about our adoption process and requirements, and to apply.

Like all GSDs, and other herding breeds that we have in rescue, Dresden will need training, consistency, boundaries, and lots of activity and socialization, in order to be a well-balanced, well-behaved dog. This sweet boy would make a great addition to an active home that will provide the love, structure, good leadership, activity and mental stimulation that he needs. Because of that, Dresden's ideal owner will have prior GSD, or other similar breed experience. Even if you exercise and play with your dog daily in your fenced yard, please remember that you MUST still take your dog out on daily walks and outings, in order to provide sufficient stimulation, ward off boredom, and work on leash skills and manners.

Why are Sponsorships & Donations so important?

HUGS provides dog food, supplies, necessary vet care (emergency, acute, routine), heartworm and flea/tick preventative to the HUGS foster dogs while they look for their forever homes. This can be quite costly and challenging in many ways. Additionally, some of the dogs that we rescue arrive sick or injured and require hospitalization, expensive surgery or long-term medications or other treatment. This places a huge strain on our vet fund, and can affect our ability to help future dogs.

Sadly, without sufficient funding to transport, vet/treat, feed the dogs that we take in, we could not continue saving them. As a volunteer group that runs solely on donations and adoptions fees, we truly need your support.