Alice over the past year. 

Update 2-28-2015: Alice the Great Dane from Canada who was rescued by Green Dogs Unleashed has been adopted by a family who had recently lost their dane to Cancer.

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind with our Deaf Dogs Rock email box filling out with pleas for help to rescue deaf dogs all over the country. We have very limited resources here at Deaf Dogs Rock so we have to choose the dogs we think will have a solid rescue commitment and also deaf dogs that will be trainable and adoptable. This is not always an easy task to accomplish because when we start asking certain questions to shelter staff and/or private owners getting ready to surrender their deaf dogs, many times some of the answers we get back from them are rather vague. Unfortunately not everyone is honest about the deaf dogs they are trying to move from place to place so we try to do the best we can to ask a lot of questions and look for any red flags with the information we are given.

By being patient and asking more questions, it helps us help the rescues we work with closely to try to set them up for success to make sure they are getting the deaf dog they are expecting.

It is because of the hard work of the Rescue Warrior Women I have the pleasure to work with every day that FIVE deaf dogs were sponsored and transported into rescue this week. We are proud to say with your help FIVE very lucky deaf dogs made it into some “ROCKIN” rescues this week.

Thanks to Karla with iRescue for stepping up to take a deaf mama dog and her two deaf puppies. Thanks to Victoria and her team at Speak For The Unspoken for taking in Kalypso the cute little border collie who spent the last 3 weeks in a West Virginia pound.

Photos from: Karla with iRescue

Photo above: Deaf border collie Kalypso being taken out of a shelter in WV into rescue at Speak For The Unspoken in Ohio – Photo from Speak for the Unspoken

A big shout out to Erika Renee at Green Dogs Unleashed Rescue in Troy VA for not only taking Alice the beautiful Great Dane from Canada into her rescue but figuring out how to get her safely to Virginia.

Photo of Great Dane Alice from Green Dogs Unleashed FB page

When I received a plea on Teddy the Old English Sheep dog (exactly one month ago today) from Jo Spencer a volunteer at the Humane Society in Concord, NC trying to seek a rescue for Teddy, I sent Teddy’s info. to Erika of Green Dogs Unleashed because I knew Erika would fall in love with Teddy. I swear as soon as I sent the photo of Teddy her way, I could hear her squealing from over 200 miles away! Teddy has literally been sitting outside for most of his two years because his family was unsure how to train him. Sometimes we get lucky with a family who only wants what’s best for their deaf dog so they seek out other alternatives to give their dog a chance at a better life. In this case the family reached out to the Humane Society of Concord in NC and in turn they reached out to Deaf Dogs Rock.

I can’t wait until Erika gets Teddy into foster care and also starts his training. Erika will be there when Teddy’s “light bulb” goes on and it hits him that a human is actually communicating with him. To a deaf dog owner or trainer that “look of acknowledgement” is PRICELESS.

Photo of Teddy the Deaf OES

I look forward to hearing about each deaf dog’s progress and also we hope to list them up on our Deaf Dogs Rock Adoptable Deaf Dogs section once they have all been vetted, spay/neutered, and fostered for awhile. To see adoptable deaf dogs from each rescue just click on their name in this post.

Thanks to all of you who financially support what we do here at Deaf Dogs Rock to help one deaf dog at a time. Without you it would be much harder to make offers of financial sponsorship to reputable rescues to help them.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! ~ Christina Lee – Deaf Dogs Rock