Name: Kira
Date of Birth and/or Age: 20 Months
Current Location: New York
Brief Summary of the Situation:
EXPERIENCED GSD or SHILOH owner is a must!
Owners statement:
The best way to put it is that she is an Iron Man athlete, always on the go, always looking for people to do stuff with her, always active, and totally bored when she's not doing something. The humans in her household are more like painters or violinists, and we have large amounts of time where we sit still and don't seem to do anything (to her). She is bored senseless and we are simply not the right household for her.
She is smart and sassy and knows quite a lot. On the other hand, she does not walk on a leash and tries to jump through windows to get at anything that moves outside. Even a 220-pound man couldn't handle her on a leash.
She is a good eater (slow and steady) with no resource guarding. She is rock steady with loud noises (we played a full set of drums in the room with her and she didn't even react). She is crate trained and completely housebroken.
She can open every covered garbage can. She can get into rooms when the door is closed. She is a nibbler, which means she puts her mouth on you and suddenly you realize she's nibbling on your leg, or arm, or stomach.
In her previous household, she lived with four older children and an Aussie. The family decided she was way too rough for them to handle. We understand that.... she is very strong and doesn't take correction well. She does that growly, grumbly bark that's backtalk. If you point a finger at her, she'll try to nibble it.
She is not at all aggressive (unless you're a cat or squirrel or rabbit or anything small that moves). But when people come in the house, she's a jumper (in a friendly way, but still).
And even though she's 20 months old, she's very uncoordinated in a lot of ways. She has zoomies several times a day and doesn't know how to keep her legs together and is always banging into stuff and hurting herself. Two days before we adopted her, she jumped out of a window. Last week, she ran onto our deck so fast she couldn't stop and slammed into a step and couldn't put her rear leg down for two days.
We have been to the vet, and have current x-rays of her elbow. She has mild elbow dysplasia but the vet says no surgery is necessary now. She had her anal glands cleaned and it appears that may be an ongoing issue for her.
We don't want to force her to try to be something she's not. We would like to find a home for her where she can have a job, is occupied, and has a lot of room to run.
Even though she looks like a smoothie/plush combo, we discovered yesterday that her previous family shaved her. Feathers are coming in and her butt floofies are growing, as is her mane. She may turn out to be a plush.
We have complete vet records from her birth, which is 2/4/2018. She is spayed.
If you are interested in adopting Kira, please fill out our rescue application below.
Updates:
10/30/2019 owner decided to keep her
