Champ Great Dane & Labrador Retriever Mix Portland, ME

Champ is the only male of the litter. He is obsessed with treats and will look at you with the saddest, beautiful eyes to convince you to get into the snack jar for some. He is very smart and learning commands already with minimal work. He will smile at you when he's super excited.

Callie, Clover, Cleo, Champ, Cora and Coco are New Years Day babies! They were born January 1, 2024.

Mom is a boxer/dane mix that weighs about 70 lbs and dad is a yellow lab/shep mix that also weighs about 70 lbs - the puppies should be around that once full grown.

As of 5/11 they weighed:

Callie – 26 lbs
Clover – 30 lbs
Champ (only male) – 28 lbs
Coco – 25 lbs
Cora – 29 lbs
Cleo – 30 lbs

These babies have been raised in a home since they were born and are very sweet.

They have been around cats and well exposed to them their whole young lives, so we know they can live happily with kitties.

They love other dogs but would do fine in a household with or without another dog. Sometimes they will lead and sometimes they will follow, they have not found their roles yet.

The foster is in a wheelchair and has children – The puppies love children and do well to understand that when the foster and children are playing with them, not to be too rough or jump.

The foster describes them as sweet, but a bit timid and shy at first, almost gentle like as if they don’t know how to act with the certain person, they’re with. Once they’re separated, their personalities shine through and they start being fun, playful puppies.

They’re not too interested in toys, as they’d prefer to be around their humans and get lots of love and pets. They will be your shadow if you allow them. The foster believes once they’re separated more, their toy loving side will come and they may never stop playing after that.

They love to cuddle. When they’re inside, they jump on the couch and just snuggle right up and sleep. They have learned to go to the back door when they need to go to the restroom, and we think with a bit more consistency, they will master house training.

One fun fact: All the puppies have webbed feet, which makes ideal for swimming ?

If you’re looking for a great dog that is curious, smart, gentle but playful, loving, sweet, and just all around wonderful, please consider adopting one of these beauties.

All adoption fees include spay/neuter, current negative hw test if old enough, current age appropriate vaccines including rabies, parvo/distemper, lepto, bordatella, current heart worm and flea/tick preventions, lifetime registered microchip, 2 dewormers and transport costs from Texas to the East Coast.

PLEASE READ THIS TO ADOPT:

Www.ruraltank.org/adopt

We process applications as first come, first serve so we suggest you fill out an application as soon as possible as we can receive quite a few per animal.

If you submit an inquiry that questions something answered in this bio, we will not respond due to high volume of inquiries.

ALL OF OUR ANIMALS ARE LOCATED IN SOUTH TEXAS. They are posted in areas where we transport to ONCE ADOPTED.

95% of our animals are pre adopted prior to transport, if you want to do a meet and greet with an animal in person we suggest going to a local shelter as we probably will not be able to offer that.

Once approved though us, we will put you in contact with the foster family that has your animal to learn more about them!

We transport every few weeks, TBD.

Application turn around is usually about 1-3 days max, if not sooner. After you submit an application and want to send additional information or pictures of current animals/past ones in a separate email, we love that and it always helps your chances :)