Beanie

Meet Cocoa Bean (aka: Beanie)!

Beanie is a super sweet and snuggly 4 month old 75% Dane, 25% Coonhound mix ( owners did DNA). Beanie came to the rescue from a home breeder who was unable to find a home for her. Beanie’s personality has really blossomed as she navigates life at her foster home with human and fur siblings and a flock of chickens! When she came to us, she was quite shy and reserved due to so many changes, but has finally found her playful puppy side.

Beanie enjoys chasing after tennis balls and trying to take sticks away from her much bigger GDFRL alumni foster brother just as much as she enjoys snuggling on the couch watching YouTube with her skin siblings. She loves meeting folks at the local brewery and has made quite a few new fur and human friends.

She is wonderful around other dogs and absolutely adores kids. Her 25% coonhound side is hard to discern, until the occasional bark where that hound dog tone shines through! It’s very endearing. She is progressing with her basic commands and is easily redirected. She is almost completely house trained–as long as those human siblings are paying attention–and spends nights and any unsupervised time quietly in the crate.

Beanie would make a great addition to any family, could that be you? Beanie is being fostered in Asheboro NC. A fenced yard and previous giant breed experience is required.

If interested in Beanie send us an email to info@greatdanefriends.com

Biscuit

Allow us to introduce Biscuit. (When she is being extra cute her name changes to Butter Biscuit!!)

Biscuit and her sister came to the rescue as 10 month old puppies. They were surrendered to an animal shelter in North Carolina. Biscuit can be described with two words. Gorgeous puppy!! Biscuit is a gorgeous jet black puppy with ears that do their own thing. Sometimes they stick out to the sides and sometimes they are normal.

Biscuit’s personality is as beautiful as her looks. Let’s start our description with all the things Biscuit already knows how to do. I will list them for you: – Number one – SIT.

Now, let’s talk about what she needs: – Everything else. Biscuit knows the command for sit but true to dane form, if she doesn’t want to, she will make you work at giving the command multiple times before she eventually gives in. (Unless it’s feeding time or you have a treat). When it is time to eat she will sit and wait for you to put her food down while watching you with those piercing eyes.

Biscuit came to the rescue very thin. You can see from some of the pictures that she had zero muscle and no fat on her body at all. She was 10 months old and 72 pounds. She had a UTI and understandably she was hungry all the time. But she still sat and waited for you to set her food down for her. Now, when you have your back turned to her getting her food ready she is bouncing all over the place, including putting her feet on your back to look around you to see if it is ready yet. She is just excited and hungry after coming from a place where she obviously did not get enough food, or routine meals.

Biscuit walks on a leash but she is not a natural. She doesn’t pull super hard, more along the lines of not knowing what exactly to do. When she came to her foster home she was given a small chew toy with a squeaker inside. She took the toy, crawled on the couch beside foster mama and laid down. When she squeaked it for the first time she jumped up and was terrified of it. She acted as though she had never seen a vacuum cleaner, nor rain and preferred at first to go pee on the hard deck instead of the grassy yard.

She quickly learned where to go potty, but she would immediately want to go back inside. Outside intimidated her. Oftentimes the rescue doesn’t get first hand knowledge of the lives our foster dogs lived before coming to the rescue. But it is clear Biscuit and her sister were not exposed to much at all.

Let me tell you exactly what Biscuit wants: she wants to be with people. She wants to be in their lap and to snuggle up with them on the couch and to pet and to be loved non-stop, 24/7. Period. She wants other dogs to be around, but if given the chance to be with other dogs or people, its people every time. She doesn’t care what you are doing, she just wants to be with you. She is desperate for love, attention, and companionship. We describe her as frantically affectionate. She will quickly crawl on top of you and lay down for snuggles. It is easy to see Biscuit was likely confined in a place with a hard floor and not exposed to much of anything. She was scared of a dog toy! So she will need to be worked with on exposure to everything and basic manners. But more than anything she wants someone to love her and she will do anything to make that happen. Once she finds someone to love her, she is literally oozing with love to give in return. Are you that someone?

Contact Great Dane Friends of Ruff Love if you think you are up to the challenge of making this gorgeous puppy’s dream come true. A fenced yard a giant breed experience is required.

If interested in adopting Biscuit email us at info@greatdanefriends.com for an application.

Thor

Thor is a sweet three-year-old boy loves people and wants to be as close to you as he can. He enjoys daily walks and walks well on a leash. In just a few short months he has come a long way with leash walking. While walking he can get a little excited when he sees another dog, but he is easily corrected. I make him sit and tell him to wait and he is the most patient boy. He just loves everyone and everything!
 
One of his favorite things to do is sit in front of a window and look out at the world around him. And he loves car rides, too.  Thor loves playing with other dogs and would love to have a doggie brother or sister in his new home. Sometimes he acts nervously around other dogs at first, but this quickly dissipates and off he goes playing and running around. His foster brother can play rough, which Thor puts up with patiently and then lets him know when he has had enough.
 
Now that it is getting warm out he likes to lay on the couch on the porch and gaze into the backyard…most of the time watching his foster brother roam the backyard.
 
Thor loves that his foster mom works from home. He will do best in a home where his owners are not gone for long periods of time. And no crates, please. He does not like them and will not go in them. He needs to be in a home that will not crate him. He sleeps through the night on his dog bed next to his foster mom’s bed. As long as he is in the same room as you then he is content.
 
Kids? Thor loves them! Especially kids who give him lots of pets and love. He recently stayed with a family who has a pet rat and he did well with her. Gently and calmly watching it and nuzzling it.
 
Thor is extremely trustworthy in the house and is house trained. He has never gotten into anything he is not supposed to. His foster mom always gives him a treat before she leaves the house and this makes his day! He LOVES treats. He knows basic commands like sit and lay down and we are working on stay. He wants to be right by your side so staying is a little hard for him right now. He does get very excited when people enter the home but he calms down quickly. He just loves people that much.
 
Thor was an owner surrender who was taken in by a concerned family who nursed him back to health. He is about good as dogs come and just wants to show you how much he loves you.
 
He is being fostered in Charlotte, NC.  If interested in Thor please email us at info@greatdanefriends.com