For whatever reason, it seems that in rescue litters of puppies are picked through leaving no one unaccounted for. However, singleton puppies are often overlooked and grow up in rescue. It never made sense to me, but I have stopped trying to make sense of rescue a long time ago.
Libby is a singleton, currently growing up in rescue. She came from a shelter in Montana. Shelters in the states are a whole different world. It really is a mathematical problem, there are more people in a smaller area of space, which makes for more pet numbers in a small area of space, which inevitably makes more puppies, and crowded shelters. Add these numbers to the recent recession and it equals more dying dogs. We know that this is occurring in our own cities, and mostly we like to help in our own communities, however, in rescue if you scratch my back, I scratch yours, and you never know when you might get itchy. And really who could resist Libby's face??
Shelter life is hard, and Libby is just learning now how to be a dog. She is gaining leash manners, has just figured out what to do with toys, and how to handle stress. She is a typical 5 month old puppy - busy and playful. She loves other dogs and always wants to play, but might be a bit much for smaller or older dogs and young children. Her amazing foster home has also crate and house trained her, and she is very smart and eager to please.
Unfortunately I cannot post typical pictures of sweet piles of puppies sleeping or wrestling with one another. I cannot tell you how she bosses around her brothers and sisters, or is the first out of the bunch to sit, or shake a paw. But I can say Libby is a fantastic puppy who has had a rough start, and desperately wants you to see her, just for her and all she has to offer.
She is a very sweet and unsure young female dog that was picked up as a stray in Cardston. The shelter held her til PDCR was able to take her in. She is doing very well in her foster home. They have kids over 8, a couple of cats and three other dogs that are keeping Tippy company. She is a Shepherd X, about 10 months old. She had her vaccinations, chip, and spay done last week, she is ready to join a new home.
One of our puppies in the PDCR pack right now. She is adorable. I have been fostering her this week and have to say that other then the normal puppy quirks, she is actaully a nicely balanced and well mannered puppy. She is about 16 weeks old now, house trained as much as she can be at this age, loves to go into her crate for bedtime and when we got to work, or when I want to mop my floors without her adding her footprints to the job! She also a Shepherd X, about 55-60 lbs full grown, that came to us from a shelter in Montana.
Not that the other dogs are badly behaved, but Maren is honestly the best behaved one in the bunch. She was a stray from the Taber area and came to PDCR from that shelter. She is about 7 months old, spayed, chipped, and vaccinated. She shares her foster home with Moe, a wonderful male Mastiff. She licks his lips all day long and plays for hours with him. She is housetrained and crate trained and a very small medium sized dog, probably only 35 pounds full grown, and because she has the cutest freckles on her face and legs, we are going with Heeler X.
What a dog. She is a Whippet X Border Collie. She is beautfully athletic and has speed. Flyball and agility would be right up her alley. She was an owner surrender. Her home's fence had boards missing from it and she was just way too bored out there to not take advantage of the escape route, that made her 'bad' and unwanted! She is doing very well in her foster home's securely fenced yard. She is house and crate trained, spayed, vaccinated and chipped.
What a sweetheart, just look at her face! I was sent a link about her from another volunteer who knew I wouldn't be able to resist helping her! Thanks Bobbi!! So, here is Ophelia, she is about a year old and a PitBull X. A smaller medium sized dog. The picture above is of her just after she was found with a litter of puppies. The picture below is of how she looks now, just a few months later. The shelter was so excited that we would be willing to help with the poor little thing, they say she is very friendly, not very hyper, well mannered and laid back. She hasn't had much of any kind of training, but should soak it up given by a kind person who loves her. She will be officially joining the PDCR pack next weekend and is coming from Kalispell.
She is another new comer. She is a small meduim, approx 40 lbs, female PitBull. She is currently in a foster home with three other dogs and gets along wonderfully with all of them. She is cuddler and will give kisses as long as you want her too! She is crate and house trained and a great all around gal. She has her basic obedience down pat and does roll-over and shake a paw too. She is very eager to please and it would be easy to teach this dog many new tricks.
Look at this boy! He has had quite the life and would love if the ride would just stop so he could get off!! He is only 10 months old and already had more homes then he had hoped for. He was origonally bought out of the back of a pick up truck in a Target parking lot! He was only 6 weeks old. That family had him until is got a bit too big and more of a handfull, as puppies do, so they had made arrangements for one of their friends to take him. That couple had him for under 24 hours and had surrenedered him to the shelter. Their reason was that he had more energy then their Chihuahua, so wasn't going to work out! A shelter worker begged that Hoss be given more time, and then the challenge of finding a group to take him was on. We have taken him in even though we are so full right now, but literally, he had run out of time, and then ran out of the borrowed time. 
