#14339 Meadows

Energy Level 4 - Needs 1 hour of a mixture of off-leash playtime and or mental stimulation every day.

Meet Meadows: A Beautiful German Shepherd Girl that Lives to Fetch! Will you play with me?

Name: Meadows
Gender: Female
Breed: Mixed Breed
Age: 2.5 years old
Weight: 63 lbs (working towards an ideal weight of 60 pounds)
Current Location: Doswell, VA

About Meadows
Hello! My name is Meadows! I'm a German Shepherd Dog pup with a sweet personality, ready to give you all my love and loyalty.

Miss Meadows is a true “Velcro pup” loving to be with her humans. She is affectionate and loving, and will happily lay down at your feet for tummy rubs. She loves nothing better than to sit quietly while being petted and fussed over. And people do fuss over her – everywhere she goes people exclaim “What a beautiful pup!” Meadows loves it!

Meadows is an energetic pup – she absolutely adores playing Chuck-it ball and plainly relishes her twice daily walks. Meadows is allowed off-leash; foster mom has no worries about her roaming off-territory. She is a fantastic pal to have around while working in the yard – she “helps” with the collection of kindling and removal of branches as she loves to seize and carry sticks in her mouth. She would do well with an active family that enjoys outdoor activities.

Meadows is extremely intelligent – she knows “crate”, “wait”, “off”, “sit”, and “come” very well and she practices daily with foster mom. She is eager to please – even when she is not crazy about having to crate, she will enter on command. Foster mom frequently leaves the crate door open after placing Meadows in the crate to reassure her that it’s never permanent. Having said that, Meadows always eats in her crate and rests there for at least 30 minutes afterwards, and she sleeps quietly through the night confined in her crate.

Meadows has visited foster mom’s office. She easily entered and exited foster mom's small SUV (as she always does), rode quietly to multiple sites on the way to the office, then navigated the scary loud doors and stairwell with ease and greeted foster mom’s colleagues with the tolerant courteous reserve of the German Shepherd Dog, warming up once staff fussed and exclaimed over her.

Meadows laid down in a very friendly and appropriate manner when meeting foster mom’s personal GSD through a fence, but she is not friendly towards foster mom’s small foster Shih-Tzu pup. She likely will do fine with pups her own size but should be monitored with smaller dogs.

She loves her teddy bear and special duck tug toy, along with her soft plush squeaky toys. She plays with all of these with great energy but somehow does not destroy them. The toys are a little dirty but intact.

Meadows appears potty trained and will potty at foster mom’s direction outside first thing in the morning (when time is tight). She has had only one accident inside and that was foster mom’s error in not getting her out in time.

When Meadows is not playing, walking, or resting in her crate, she demonstrates some funny repetitive behaviors – stalking unseen prey, pouncing, and spinning in a very playful, happy manner. She wags her tail cheerfully throughout these behaviors and is easily interrupted and distracted, and only engages in them when there is nothing more interesting to do. This is being evaluated with OPH’s veterinary partners and will be resolved or clarified prior to any adoption being finalized.

This dog tested positive for heartworm disease before arriving to the rescue. Heartworm disease is transmitted to a dog through a bite from an infected mosquito producing a positive test in six months. OPH will treat the dog and provide two weeks of recovery time prior to adoption. Potential adopters will receive detailed information on the disease and their role in completing the recovery process from OPH’s heartworm coordinator. With monthly preventatives, the disease is completely preventable.
Read more about heartworm disease here here