AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION!
BHRR’s Leah is AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION!
Great Dane
Health Status: HEALTHY!
Age: ~2 years – Born: ~April 2022
Weight: ~ 55.4 kgs(121.88 pounds) in March 2024. We want to keep her lean/muscled and fit. Becoming fat is NOT in her or any dog’s best interest.
Some information from her wonderful foster mama:
“Miss Leah is doing great. We’ve been working on leash manners and recall and she is learning quickly. We’ve also been working on politely interacting with other dogs, as she likes to bark loudly at other dogs she sees out in the world. She’s getting better with this when she’s in our yard but still needs work while we’re on walks.
Leah has been eating and drinking well and is a very happy girl. She is looking much healthier now that she has put on some weight.
Leah loves attention and cuddles and her toys. She is quite gentle with her toys and likes to gather them on her bed. She is getting along with my dog very well and they love to play together. They get very excited though, so we’ve also been practicing taking breaks from playing and just sitting/laying down quietly together.
We’ve been taking the dogs out for walks at a local trail and Leah is in heaven when she’s there!”
Type of Home Ideal For Miss Leah: She is smart and needs a solid structure. She interacts well with people she meets, and we hope for a quiet, socially low-active level home. A residence that, while visiting family plus friends and having people over, does not host frequent BBQs or gatherings of large groups. We do not want to see her in a home with a high level of travel, with other people taking care of her. She is loyal and loves her people, and we want her to be part of the family if they go camping, go to the cottage, or do other fun travels. She is social and needs a home that is like her. One that shall not overwhelm her and will continue to work on her dog-to-dog manners. She would adore cottage life or hang out at home with her family. Visiting friends, family, pet stores, and pet-friendly places are excellent too. We want a quietly active home for Miss Leah. She is happy, healthy, full of personality and a joy!
She MUST go to a home that will continue to work on exposing her to new, fun, and beautiful things in the world. Time, patience, and effort have gone into having her be comfortable, to not only like yet love her own company. We are not advocates of dog parks. Many private properties rent out space for acreage rentals so that she can enjoy a controlled environment to run and zoom in.
We want her to look forward to the next adventures plus experiences. She needs a home that will give her new positive and great safe, memorable experiences along with structure, consisteny, plus patience. If you are a home that likes to take infrequent walks/hikes/strolls, Miss Leah is not for you…she is a healthy dog and needs to be kept emotionally and physically stimulated. She would make a great companion to get out into nature, explore, and enjoy the beach and other exciting adventures! She is also a great companion when watching movies or curled up with a good book.
A home that understands and shall continue to help her learn about this big fantastic world that we live in. We want her to live a quality-filled, enriched life. She is being fostered in a lovely home outside the Ottawa area, and can equally live comfortably in the city or country.
We want her to be happy and to live her best life every day. We want her to reach her full incredible potential!
She is another versatile BHRR dog! She can be in a home that works ft; pt works from home, is semi-retired or retired, etc. She will ONLY go to a home prepared to ensure she receives the balance he requires with proper exercise, socialisation, etc. along with positive balanced obedience.
She does need to go to a dog-experienced home, yet not specifically a Dane-specific experienced home. The home must be committed to her obedience, structure, and consistency, and to be patient, kind, and understanding, and while not hermits, they are not doing a hundred things each day or, weekly, or monthly. We want her to be treated as a beloved member in a right-matched, forever-loving home. We want her to be an invaluable member of her forever-loving adoptive home! She needs that right positive balance between patience, ‘tough’ love, calming assuring, and passively ignoring.
She is fed in a quiet place and knows that she will be fed enough food on time and that no one will take her away.
She loves home and her friends.
Personality/Temperament: Super loving, affectionate, calm, happy sweet; she loves to get outside to romp and run and is a delightful, playful pup! She needs to be emotionally/physically properly stimulated, social, active, gentle, plus kind. She thrives with consistency, structure, routine, and clear open communication to understand precisely what is expected of her. She is a very smart, active, and healthy puppy!
Previous Dog Experience: Previous Dog experience is required per the above, and she needs a home that is going to be committed to her wellbeing and make the small adjustments required as she is still an adolescent, still learning, and still mentally plus physically growing. She sleeps well, and ideally, while we would like to see her in a home with at least one right-matched personality-fit dog, it is not a deal breaker. She absolutely needs a strong doggie friend network in the community, though. That is so important. We have friends; she needs friends too. It is important for her to have doggie friends to continue to work on her manners.
Good With Cats: Unknown. She has been ok with the clinic cat yet, the clinic cat is not really a cat!
Good with Pocket Pets: Unknown
Good with Children: We feel that any right-matched personality fit home for Miss. Leah should not have small or young children. We will consider homes with children 12 and older and no more than two children in the home.
Grooming: She needs regular grooming to keep her coat healthy and look his best. Regular grooming includes nails and ears.
Car: She travels well in the car.
Housebroken/crate Trained: She is housebroken and crate trained – though the foster home has not used a crate. We never recommend giving any new addition too much freedom to start. It can be very overwhelming plus too stimulating for them.
Obedience: She requires a home that will be consistent and dedicated to continuing to help her become the best dog she can be. Her potential is enormous! As per our adoption contract, a full round of group obedience is required with all of our dogs. This is not about having a dog that ‘listens.’ This is about creating a strong and mutually respectful bonding relationship. Trust and respect work both ways. It is imperative that humans give dogs reasons to trust them.
Activities Suited For Her: She would excel in being your bff. Great companion at home, a great companion for camping, cottaging, hikes, and exploring new things! Her personality is HUGE! She loves the beach.
Loves & Bad Habits: Like any dog, she is not perfect. She is perfect in all of his imperfections, though! NOT to mention so beautiful. She still can bark, jump towards other dogs in her mixture of excitement, worry and lack of manners.
Anxieties/Worries: It is integral that the right-matched personality fit home and does not spend 24/7 with her. During the pandemic and even before it, we still need groceries; we should still go out and do errands; we should still get in our cars and go for a small drive to go somewhere to do something! Time has been spent having her learn to not only like yet enjoy her own company. As we need our alone time, she must do too. She is a solid and stable dog; we do not want any SA behaviours to develop.
As we have stated for over 28 years now, we will NEVER rush any dogs’ rehabilitation journey, we do not flip dogs, and we are not desperate to adopt them out. I had wanted to place her up for adoption a couple of months ago, yet other matters took precedence, and now it is all about her turn!
We will always place up for adoption the dogs that can be adopted and safe haven all others that cannot be placed up for adoption due to medical and/or behavioural reasons.
We do not take in hundreds of dogs yearly; we only took in 18 dogs in 2022 as it is about helping the next in need of us, giving them top-quality care, and not about taking in numbers. In 2023, we have ONLY taken in 6 dogs. We have taken in none in 2024 as of yet. Finances are extremely tight in rescue at this time.
After 28+ years, we know that we cannot please everyone, which means that BHRR is not the rescue to be followed, supported, and believed in by everyone. We remain small plus mighty, and as we go through this next transitional stage for BHRR, we shall continue to operate with a zero-tolerance approach, providing and beyond care to the animals.
Our mandates have never changed and will remain the same as long as we are around; the animals shall always be done right by as our priority.
Our adoption success rates remain second to no other group – 100% for over ten years of operating, and now 99% as we go through year 28, and we are excited as we go through this slow transition for BHRR!
You have done a THUMBS up job, as has your fantabulous foster home, Miss Leah, and we are thrilled you are making your special announcement!
