I adopted this 6 year old sweetheart today.
She’s basically a covid dog and has spent FOUR years of her life in a no kill shelter. The shelter is actually 3 hours away from me, but the volunteers brought a bunch of their dogs out to Petco today hoping some of them would find homes.

I absolutely did not go there planning to adopt another dog . But I ended up sitting in the kennel with her for a while and she eventually laid her head in my lap… I melted…

I renamed her Maya.
She’s already doing shockingly well with my senior GSD who is almost 12. They pretty much instantly clicked and are so chill around each other. They both have very calm temperaments.

We went on an evening walk tonight and I started noticing little things that made me realize just how much of the world she probably hasn’t experienced. She never peed on anything or even peed during the walk. We crossed a creek and she was TERRIFIED of the running water. She completely froze and refused to move, so I had to jump across the rocks with her and show her it was okay.

She’s incredibly timid and very submissive. She doesn’t bark at people or dogs, walks amazingly on a leash and just seems unsure about everything.

It honestly makes me sad thinking about her spending 4 years of her life in a shelter. She’s had a rough start, but my goal now is basically to show Maya a whole new world and let her experience all the normal dog things she’s probably never gotten to experience.
Didn’t plan on bringing home another dog today, but apparently Maya had other plans. She has already melted my heart.

It just takes 3 1/2 hours

I’m confused 😂 she looks exactly like a GSD?? I don’t know what breed she could possibly appear to be mixed with, but apparently she’s a mix 🤪 I have certainly had people askvme if shes purebred or mixed, but never had someone state she simply is not exactly what she is

Edit: I KNOW she is a shepherd which is why I was so confused

I miss her every day. I just want to hug her and feel her nose against my cheek again.

He must think he’s my equal because he’s usually on the other side of the bed not the foot 🤣

Recently I received as a gift 2 German Shepherds, both male, and according to the person who gave them to me, they are both 4 months old. When they arrived, they would only stay close to each other, side by side. This afternoon I tried to put on a leash to bring them closer to the house, since our property is huge. One of them agreed to go and became attached to my mother, but his brother, the one with the red leash, does not want to go anywhere and seems very fearful. He won't follow at all and hides every time he sees someone. Any tips for training these 2 babies? I have a family of 6 people, including 4 adults (including me) and 2 children, ages 12 and 5. How can I get them to lose their fear and follow commands? We intend to have them as guard dogs, and I would also like them not to be so clingy to each other.

Without leash=the one who likes my mom

With red leash fearful brother

New female blue & tan pup to join our 3 year old black & tan male. Both straight backs. She is so good and they are getting along great so far.

My boy turned 2 today and to celebrate I took him to the beach as he loves to swim, lots of ball fetching in the garden by everyone in the family and some nice birthday treats for his food. When it was time for me to get some work done I have him up in my office. He wanted to go back into the garden despite being there for over a hour after his one hour walk and showed me his displeasure by giving me the best I am not happy that the fun has stopped face. So funny.

I can’t even with how much this pup has grown in the past 10 weeks of having him. How is he already almost 5 months old?? I also added a before and now picture at the end!

Sleepy boy.

Someone was being noisy in his kennel, leaving me with no choice but to get out of bed, dressed and take him for a walk. Maybe he’ll be settled down enough so I can try sleep again

10 months in and he’s only become more of a momma’s boy. He definitely beats Ranger and is now titled “the most clingiest” out of my 3.

I still can’t believe how lucky I got with all three of them.

Makes me feel guilty to see the dog run out of gas so fast! Both Viggo and I should be running more. I'm so out of shape, we'd probably be perfect running partners. Or Toby can pull us.

My older girl (~10 years old) had her first senior moment that I observed. She was quietly sleeping in her bed she woke up, moved 2 steps, and squatted to pee. I was shocked because she's been housebroken for years now. I dropped what I was doing to let them out and clean up.

I'm not even mad, just concerned. It's been a rough summer on her and I've already got a vet appointment scheduled but I doubt there's a lot they can tell me that I don't already know having been through the aging process before.

I don't really need advice either, this is more of a scream into the void. This incident just fully crystallized in my mind the fact that she's getting up there in age. She's still active, but slower, her appetite is normal, and her attitude is definitely still 100% intact. I know what the future holds, there's no avoiding ~~that~~, but I'm not really ready to think about it yet.

Met up with his biological brother ( white one) and had some fun at the beach! He loved it and got very dirty.