Piston Owen German Shepherd Dog Mix Cuba, NY

I Swim!

Piston Owen was born about March 19, 2013 and weighs about 55 lbs. He Loves to swim and did well on the long car ride here. Piston is just gorgeous with his beautiful GSD markings and the medium length fur! He is wonderful with the other dogs and does not mind cats. Piston is the most incredible dog here and wonderful with all of us right from the start. However, we sent him to Petsmart for show and tell and he was growly with strange humans coming up to him. We were shocked because we had never seen anything but amazing out of this guy. I feel this behavior will diminish with time and as he meets more and more kind humans he will not have to feel like he needs to protect himself. But, until that time we need a home where the humans understand and are prepared to deal with any negative behavior from him when around strangers. He's may or may not be a dog that you can take everywhere you go, time will tell. Also, at this time we have to say no kids. We feel he will be wonderful with the kids he lives with, but kids have other kids come visit and that could be overwhelming.

So, adoptions have been strong and we had room to rescue 29 dogs and 3 gorgeous cats from a high kill area. Not one complained about the long ride and all have settled in nicely. Many of them seem to have understood, right away, that they were now safe in our Dog House with fresh blankets, lots of Science Diet food, automatic waterers and even toys! It gets a little confusing when getting files ready for so many at once, so if a breed, size, age seems questionable with the photos shown, please let us know. We are doing the best we can to save as many as we can. We so appreciate your understanding and willingness to adopt a dog we know little about that would have been dead, within a few days, if they had not come here. We always test out of towners for heart worm.


The Adoption Fee for this dog is $300.00.

Adoptions fees vary based on adoptability. In general our fees include spay/neuter, all age appropriate vaccines, Home Again micro-chipping & registration, worming & flea control - a "complete" pet.

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