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.

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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.