Adopt
These are the dogs currently in our care.
Every listing carries a short profile: whether the dog is available, the experience a home needs, any medical requirements, and honest notes on who they are and where their training stands. What we write is what we have observed so far. Dogs change and training progresses, and we update these as that happens.
Every dog requires an application. Some of our dogs are direct surrenders. Others are sent by rescues we network with and legally belong to those rescues until adopted, which sometimes means a second application for that rescue’s records. We will walk you through it.
We do not cat test. Most of the dogs here have significant prey drive. Assume a dog is not cat-safe unless a listing specifically says otherwise.
Interested in a dog who is awaiting spay or neuter? Email us. We can sometimes significantly lower the adoption fee in exchange for proof of a scheduled appointment, and reserve the dog for you, if and when you are approved, to go home once the procedure is done.
Ragnar
FILL: breed. About 3.5. Male, FILL: neutered or awaiting neuter.
Availability: Yes
Experience: FILL
Medical: FILL
About: Ragnar was pulled from euthanasia in California hours before his deadline. Gentle and shy, very people-focused, and happiest being pet and given quiet attention. He is a baby, happy to lounge around and get pets. He is our library dog: he would rather be in the library near us, or asleep in it, than anywhere else. He has no noticeable prey drive. He is cat friendly and kid friendly, and would likely do well with other small animals too, with proper introductions.
Training: FILL
Flick
FILL: photo of Flick
Husky. FILL: age. Male, neutered.
Availability: Yes
Experience: FILL
Medical: FILL
About: A classic husky: well behaved, sweet, and quiet, and he likes to play.
Training: Basic obedience done. House trained, and very good in a crate.
Murdoch
FILL: photo of Murdoch
Malamute and Husky, with suspected wolfdog content. FILL: age. Male, neutered. Very tall.
Availability: FILL
Experience: FILL
Medical: FILL
About: Murdoch is not stranger friendly, and he comes with a light protocol for meeting new people. With the people he trusts, and the people who play with him, he is very loving. He is well behaved. He can clear a fence, but he respects fences anyway. Given enough time to observe small animals first, he seems to be friendly with them; he does not harm puppies he has been around for a while. He has not been tested with children.
Training: Basic obedience done. House trained. Fairly good on leash and tether. He is fearful of crates.
Ecolara
Suspected German Shepherd and Whippet. About 1.5. Female, spayed.
Availability: Yes
Experience: Dog-experienced
Medical: None
About: Ecolara needs someone who understands that she gets a bit nervous and shy at first, with a curious, playful puppy underneath it. Once she opens up she is vocal, active, and very playful. She is passive or playful with other dogs. Her confidence is building fast.
Training: Basics in progress.
Arya
German Shepherd and Belgian. About 3. Female, spayed.
Availability: Yes
Experience: Belgian-savvy or better
Medical: None
About: A genuine working foundation, real drive, attentive and smart. We would prefer she go to a Belgian-savvy home that will invest in bringing that foundation to fruition rather than let it sit. She needs a job. If you do not give her one she will assign herself one, and dogs who assign themselves a job almost always choose vandalism. We are continuing her training in the meantime.
Training: Good working foundation, actively building.
Pickles
Pickles, with Echo.
Husky mix. About 3.5. Male. Around 100 lbs and very tall.
Availability: Soon (awaiting neuter)
Experience: Dog-experienced to breed-savvy
Medical: None
About: Very happy-go-lucky, just excited to be included. He is friendly, playful, and behaviorally sound. He is selective with other male dogs, which may ease with neutering, and selective with men, disliking aggressive men of any sort. He can clear a six-foot fence, so until his recall and his sense of home boundaries are set in stone we would recommend a taller fence, tie-outs, active presence, or some equivalent arrangement. A home that can handle a genuinely large, athletic dog.
Training: Basic obedience. His remaining issues are hormonal rather than trained.
Millie
Siberian Husky. Between 1.5 and 3.5. Female, spayed.
Availability: Yes
Experience: Dog-experienced
Medical: None
About: Very loving, and she responds beautifully to positive reinforcement, reassurance, and praise. She arrived alongside Pippin, terrified of every person and every dog except Pippin, and she has come a very long way through our work with her. She likes to hold hands, with her mouth, playfully; her home should understand the difference between a bite, an arousal grip, and a play bite, because she does the last one and it can startle people who have not met it. We think she is on the younger side and may grow out of it with time and socialization, and her home should keep working on it alongside her. Very cute, very curious, extremely sweet.
Training: Some basic obedience (sit, shake, come), with clear room for more.
Pippin
Siberian Husky. Between 1.5 and 3.5. Female, spayed.
Availability: Yes
Experience: Any home
Medical: None
About: Sweet, shy, quiet, and curious. We suspect Pippin was feral before she reached us, and she has adjusted well and socialized without difficulty. She arrived with Millie, and the two of them leaned on each other through the early days; both have come a long way since.
Training: Starting from the beginning, with us, from the ground up.
Hugo
Siberian Husky, and suspected low-content wolfdog. About 3.5. Male, neutered.
Availability: No (home offer pending)
Experience: Breed-experienced
Medical: None ongoing. He has permanent flystrike scarring on the tips of his ears that we doubt will ever fully fade.
About: Hugo was listed for euthanasia because he was not dog-friendly. We suspect he was unsocialized and kept outdoors before he reached us, which the scarring supports. Through our work he has done a complete 180: he is now playful with almost every dog here, and he craves attention from people. Playful in nearly every respect, human or dog. A clever boy who was written off for something that turned out to be fixable. He is cat friendly and kid friendly, and would likely do well with other small animals too, with proper introductions. Around cats and kids he is mostly avoidant: he tends to keep his distance rather than engage.
Training: Coming along well.
Cash
German Shepherd. Between 6.5 and 7.5. Male, neutered. Over 120 lbs.
Availability: Conditionally (currently specialist home only, strict protocol)
Experience: Specialist only
Medical: None
About: Cash is over 120 lbs and, as far as we can tell, only seems to like me (Darkageon).
He is deeply protective, and he will, potentially, at this time bite strangers entering the home. It is trauma-based rather than temperamental. He is completely fine inside the house with the people who live in it, and not with anyone else. Visitors keep their distance, and he is tethered to me or crated, if not outdoors, when anyone comes in, for both his safety and the safety of those he encounters, until further notice.
He is not aggressive. He does not charge or chase. Strangers who do not respect his space will likely receive the only correction he has as a dog: angry, teethy barks, and if they do not move back, more than a bark.
With me, though, Cash is a total baby. He loves belly rubs, he loves cuddles, he loves just hanging out with you. For an older dog he absolutely loves toys, and he acts like a puppy around the very few people he trusts. You could not ask for a better guard dog. He simply does not have a selection filter for who counts as an intruder. He is one of our rare dogs who comes with a strict protocol, for both his safety and everyone else’s.
Training: Perfect obedience, great response time, very focused. Fully house trained, crate trained, and leash trained, and surprisingly gentle on lead for his size. Covered on all bases.
Success Stories
Dogs who went where they were supposed to go. Not everyone we have placed is shown here; these are just a few of our success stories.
Dirk
Black German Shepherd, 3, male. Fully protection trained. High drive, high willingness to work. He arrived with the basics already in place and we refined him from there. He has essentially been adopted as a service dog by his new owner. A very handsome dog.
Athena
German Shepherd, about 1.5. Adopted in April 2026. Soft, fluffy, and large. Extremely well socialized and extremely energetic, and she absolutely loves to play.
Zeus
Halo
FILL: photo of Halo at home
A family keeping their own dog through a hard patch, rather than surrendering him, is its own kind of success story. Halo went back to his family, happily and safely.
Ready to apply?
Answer honestly rather than impressively. Telling us what you think we want to hear is how dogs end up moving twice.
Curious how much you already know?
We keep an optional Working-Dog Suitability Questionnaire. It is not required for anything unless we specifically ask for it, to see the extent of your knowledge for a particular dog. A low score does not necessarily disqualify you either. That depends on the dog’s needs and on what help we can provide for any gaps. Mostly it is there for people who want to find out how their instincts about working breeds hold up. It runs 113 questions, one at a time, and takes most people 45 to 90 minutes. Your progress saves as you go, and you get your results as soon as you finish.
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