Heart Shepherd & Cattle Dog Mix Fort Collins, CO

Miss Heart will come fully trained! She will be spending a few weeks with a trainer that will help with your follow up after adoption. We just want her transition into a new home to be smooth and successful. This lovely lady deserves it!

Heart's road to recovery is going well! Her hair will take time to grow back, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't start the search for her forever family.

This sweet girl is an absolute love bug that loves to snuggle. She is a very low key girl that is perfectly happy to sit and watch a movie with her person. She is also down for adventures as she is happiest being with her person.

She has met several dogs, and she has excelled with meeting every single one. She did not care about our cats so should do well living with them as well with proper introductions.

What's going on with her coat? We pulled her from a high kill shelter after she was dumped in a field. She had severe mange that covered her entire body (we left a video in that showed her after a few weeks in care). Given mange tends to be a secondary issue with adult dogs, we sent for a biopsy which came back as pemphigus foliaceus. We just started immunosuppressives, but she has clearly had tremendous progress without them (pictures on the couch are the most recent). This progress makes us hopeful that she will be able to be weaned off of the medication and will not need it lifelong. Given the environment that she came from, we are hopeful that PF was triggered by malnutrition and/or an infection (but can't be certain as we don't know if she was on a drug that caused an allergic reaction, etc).

Please review the article below to learn more about this disease. It does describe various types of pemphigus so please make sure to read the section that is specific for foliaceus as the prognosis does depend on the type: https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/pemphigus-in-dogs