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Harlow is a stunning young girl, a purebred long-coated black German Shepherd born in June of 2024. As often happens with the breed, this young pup was "too much" for her previous owner who was facing personal and health issues of her own. Harlow is a true beauty, whose grace hasn’t quite come yet. She's ready to blossom in the right environment with owners who can spend quality time with her, provide the attention, stimulation, and guidance that every young Shepherd needs. Having spent most of her first year either crated or outside alone, Harlow came to us with no skills under her belt, and she is understandably a little overstimulated and confused. She’s working hard on a couple of minor things like counter surfing, busting through doors, and is coming along nicely.

She is a friendly girl with a great temperament, and we can tell that she has bright future ahead of her! Harlow is a fast learner. She is playful and very sweet. She loves other dogs and is working on not being so dramatic about it! Harlow plays well with other dogs. She likes to cuddle and follow her people around. She’s new to walks and is thoroughly entranced by the sights and sounds. She kennels very nicely and is quiet. She is well potty-trained. She loves everyone she meets. She rides nicely in the car. She’s working hard on the counter surfing, busting through doors, and is coming along nicely.

Harlow's adoption fee is $425, all of which goes back into offseting our high-cost vetting expenses and rescuing more dogs. We are a 100% volunteer-run rescue group and rely on adoption fees and donations to continue saving lives. Adoption fees include spay/neuter, current on age- appropriate vaccinations, fecal, deworming, flea/tick and heartworm preventative, heartworm tested if old enough (and treated if positive), and microchipped. Please visit http://heartlandgsrescue.rescuegroups.org/info/adoption for more information about our adoption process and requirements, and to apply.

Like all GSDs, and other herding breeds that we have in rescue, Harlow will need training, consistency, boundaries, and lots of activity and socialization, in order to be a well-balanced, well-behaved dog. This gorgeous girl would make a great addition to an active home that will provide the love, structure, good leadership, activity and mental stimulation that she needs. Because of that, Harlows ideal owner will have prior GSD, or other similar breed experience. Even if you exercise and play with your dog daily in your fenced yard, please remember that you MUST still take your dog out on daily walks and outings, in order to provide sufficient stimulation, ward off boredom, and work on leash skills and manners.

Why are Sponsorships & Donations so important?

HUGS provides dog food, supplies, necessary vet care (emergency, acute, routine), heartworm and flea/tick preventative to the HUGS foster dogs while they look for their forever homes. This can be quite costly and challenging in many ways. Additionally, some of the dogs that we rescue arrive sick or injured and require hospitalization, expensive surgery or long-term medications or other treatment. This places a huge strain on our vet fund, and can affect our ability to help future dogs.

Sadly, without sufficient funding to transport, vet/treat, feed the dogs that we take in, we could not continue saving them. As a volunteer group that runs solely on donations and adoptions fees, we truly need your support.