Diamond

Adopted!

New Name:
Age: Adult
Sex: Female
Breed: Dogue de Bordeaux
Weight: 91 pounds
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Adoption Date:
Adopted by: Emma and Steve Coulston
Latest Update:

“Six months ago, a pack of DDB’s lost their home when their owner was displaced. And for the last six months, Diamond saw them all go home, while she remained. Through eye surgery, moving from a shelter to a foster to the Ranch to the Sanctuary then to another foster, this shy girl has come into her own a little more each day and the time has finally come for Diamond to begin her new life in her so well-deserved forever home.

Mr. Ricky Barnes aka The Transporter met with foster mama Ana early this morning and Diamond hitched a ride to Houston to meet her new mom and dad, Emma and Steve Coulston. Both have considerable experience with dogs like Diamond after having worked in rescue and fostering 30+ dogs who have had rough backgrounds, been displaced or never had a home of their own. This experience will be instrumental in helping Diamond transition into a new home as she will need lots of understanding, patience, space and time to acclimate.

Diamond will spend the rest of her days with her Rottweiler brother, Brock Gordon, who was also displaced when his family lost their home. Emma and Steve live a quiet life and their home will be a calm sanctuary for Diamond to process her thoughts and, ultimately, settle into her new life.

Emma and Steve have decided to keep her name Diamond however, they will add a middle name “Tiphanie”. In Emma’s words: “We’ll keep Diamond and as all of our owned dogs get a middle name her’s will be Tiffany. I want to use the medieval spelling because (Tiphanie) it turns out it was a name commonly given to girls born on Epiphany, which happens to be the day Emma (of LSDR) called me to say “OK, let’s start this.” As the medieval spelling is also old French it all seems perfect for a DDB. Not to mention the connection to the modern day jewellers! And because I use the same organisational tool my Mum used with her children (mine was yellow) our dogs always have a colour. So Tiffany blue will look GREAT on a red dog.” It just so happens that, when Ana handed Diamond off to Ricky, he took her red leash off and put the one he brought with him on her, which just so happened to be a blue very similar to Tiffany’s signature blue.

Happy life, Diamond Tiphanie. You’ve had a long journey and we can’t wait to see you flourish in your new home.”

Diamond is a such a shy worried girl it will take time for her to warm up but we don’t push that and they know to stay neutral towards her and allow her to come around to them. She would follow Steve on the leash really well but right now this is the best adoption pic we could get, we don’t force the issue.

They also had their friend who is a trainer come for her arrival as well. She will do just fine but she is a sensitive soul who will need lots of patience.

About Diamond:

When we rescued Cleo and Teetsi we knew that they belonged to a veteran who lost his home and his dogs were seized. We could only take two of them. We already had 10 DDB’s in the rescue and had no space. They had 3 siblings that were in the shelter in Denton since August 1st. We were constantly tagged over and over again to take all 5 of them, but we just couldn’t. The shelter answered comments on their page of people telling them to contact us about them as the shelter continually told them that we had already taken 2 of them. The three siblings sat in the shelter week after week. This past weekend one of them was adopted, but we were told that Diamond was taken off of the shelter’s page because she wasn’t doing well, refused to eat and was shut down. The other sibling still there was Dottie. We are told the two of them do not like each other. We don’t know if that’s true or if they just have broken pack behavior and its never been addressed.

Being in the shelter is exhausting for dogs that used to live in a home. They don’t understand, they miss their family, and it hurts their hearts and it hurt ours too. We couldn’t overwhelm the ISO room with potentially two Bordeaux’s that don’t like each other complicating where do they go if we pulled them out. Kim Foster has volunteered for the rescue a long time. She said if you pull them both out I will foster Diamond at my house to get her through the isolation period to see if they become ill with upper respiratory sickness. That was a huge help, and with that we said tag them both, let’s get them out of there. So Kim picked up Diamond yesterday and today Dottie was picked up and taken to the sanctuary. If they don’t like each other, we will always keep one of them at the sanctuary and one of them at the ranch, but we are hoping with lots of space and some proper behavior corrections they will be just fine. Kim said Diamond met her dogs at her house and was just fine with them.

We know we are overloaded with Bordeaux’s I know I sound like a broken record saying the same thing over and over again but I encourage those of you looking for a large dog to consider a Bordeaux in your life, if you ask any of us once you own one you will always own one. We can all feel a little bit better now knowing all 5 of them made it out of the shelter safely and now the very hard job of finding homes for them begins, sadly Dottie is HW positive, Diamond clearly needs eye surgery, but we will get all of that taken care of and begin to search for a good fit for them with a new forever home.

I know we look crazy with rescuing so many Bordeaux’s but we’ve gotta do what we gotta do and today this is what we did.

Welcome to dog Ranch Rescue Diamond and Dottie. We are sad you had to wait a month in the shelter, but we are happy that’s behind you now.

UPDATE 10/3/2022

We have moved Diamond to the sanctuary, she’s is so shy it’s crippling and the ranch was more than she could deal with so she just didn’t. The sanctuary is a quieter environment and hopefully she can relax more. Her eyes are a mess and her surgery had been scheduled to correct all of the problems, double cherry eye, entropian on both lower lids and a small mass on one eyelid. It will cost about 3500 just to fix her eyes. It will be a while before we feel confident that she’s ready for adoption we need to see her begin to advance socially and that takes however long it takes.

UPDATE 9/24/2022

She’s a very elusive bear. She’s been with us for a week and was rescued from the shelter 3 weeks ago. She is the sister of Teetsi, Cleo, and Dottie. Her name is Diamond and she’s the shyest of them all. Today she took interest in Emma’s Poodle Flora and it was the first time we have seen her come out of her den to interact with another dog. She’s got a very long way to go. She’s got cherry eyes in both eyes and will need surgery for it and we will help her come out of her shell as best we can before looking for her forever family.

UPDATE 11/18/22

We have had some very difficult bears in the past to try and bring out the best of them and find them a home that will be patient and willing to work with them. The ones that come to mind are Thelma, Candy Corn, Witchy Poo, Kisses and Cupid.

All of them found incredible homes that accepted their limitations and gave them dreamboat homes.

This is diamond, she had such terrible cherry eyes that we finally have repaired and healed enough that you can actually see her. She is afraid of everything, she will not seek out affection but she will tolerate it if she is safe in her den. The highlights are that when she’s outside and you need her to come in she now after months of working with her will happily come inside and go straight to her den.

This is just a little peek into her having some human bonding time with Eva as we try and help her trust and feel more and more comfortable.

She absolutely will require one of these dreamboat applicants, people who rescue a dog in its truest form, and take on the task of helping a dog like Diamond be the best that she can be.

Diamond cannot live with small dogs, and of course with that no cats. She is fine with large dogs but little fluffies are prey to her and that will not be allowed.

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