Doja
Great Pyrenees Mix | 1.5 Years Old | Spayed FemALe | 76 lbs
QUICK FACTS: ✔️ Good with dogs! ✔️ Good with cats! ✔️ Good with kids! ✔️House trained! ✔️ Crate trained! ✔️ Walks well on leash! ✔️ Good in the car! ✔️Can free roam when alone! ✔️ Loves to play! ✔️Loves to snuggle! ✔️ Very friendly! ✔️ Special needs!
Meet Doja:
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✅ Other dogs! Playing with, chasing, wrestling, snuggling… Doja hasn’t met a dog she doesn’t immediately love!
✅ Every human! She immediately wants to walk up for pets and shamelessly ask for a snack.
✅ Kids! She’s a gentle soul who’s great with everyone she meets.
✅ Cats! She’s met cats now both indoors and outdoors; she loves to entice them to play, but is very easily redirected if the cat isn’t interested in a big puppy.
✅ Treats and food! She is very food motivated. And has the perfect puppy dog eyes when she wants to ask for a bite of your dinner.
✅ Water! Dishes, ponds, puddles, the toilet bowl… Water is one of her favorite things.
✅ Toys! While Doja hasn’t destroyed any toys in her foster home yet, she is an expert at emptying the toy basket and relocating her collection to a fluffy dog bed.
✅ Outdoors! Doja is used to spending lots of time outdoors, and prior to coming into rescue, would roam 24/7. She has accepted that the fenced in yard and daily walks in her current foster home are acceptable though.
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Doja is a gentle soul with an abundance of love to give, and her life to this point has been anything but easy. Her eyes, filled with warmth and wisdom, speak volumes of the love she yearns to share with a family of her own. Her journey has shaped her into an extraordinary companion, ready to shower her forever family with boundless affection and unwavering loyalty for the rest of her life. Whether it's cuddling up on lazy Sunday afternoons or wandering the great outdoors, Doja promises to be your steadfast companion, eager to make every moment count.
She is the gentlest soul you will ever meet. This giant puppy loves going for walks, playing with toys, and getting loved on. She can be trusted to free roam if alone but is also content in a wire kennel. She is house trained and has never had an accident indoors. Lounging outdoors, and playing in water, are her two favorite past times, but she will engage in an enthralling game of chase with her canine foster siblings from time to time. Doja is fostered in a country home with four canine resident dogs, a steady rotation of foster dogs, and her foster family’s boarding and daycare doggos and gets along wonderfully with everyone, including the recent young puppy addition. Doja is ever-so-gentle with the puppy, not even minding when her fluffy tail is nibbled on, or puppy uses Doja’s giant head as a trampoline.
Doja is just 2 years old, but in this time has been though more than most dogs will deal with in their entire lives. Doja was pregnant in Texas; she had her puppies and unfortunately some of them died unexpectedly. This led to investigation, and Doja was found to have Chagas Disease. Chagas is unfamiliar to most of North America, but unfortunately is prevalent in Texas. Many dogs are infected and remain asymptomatic for several years; so knowing what you’re getting into with the special girl gives you a paw up on a lifetime of memories with her.
Meeting her — you would not know anything is wrong. She is a completely normal dog, and, even at over 70lbs, the easiest dog I’ve ever met [and we’re not new to the fostering or dog worlds!] While she has no outward symptoms of this disease, she has been found to have an enlarged heart. She has no cardiac symptoms at this time, either, however she has been started on a regiment of meds and supplements that will be life-long. Adopters should also plan to become established with a veterinary cardiologist to maintain Doja’s health as she ages.
