Currently not available! Please check our web site, www.shepherdrescue.org for any change in Darling's status. Update 2/9/2009: We have wonderful news. The latest blood test results show that the liver disease is in remission and that Darling has made remarkable progress. She will require monthly blood tests for at least the next six months or so to ensure that her liver is functioning properly. Her long-term prognosis remains guarded as the liver disease could flare up again, but we hope to control this through a combination of special diet and daily medications/supplements. She now weighs 75 pounds which is a gain of close to 16 pounds since she was rescued from the shelter in September 2008. Her next hurdle is being spayed as this will be a bit more complicated due to her illness and scar tissue from her various surgeries. We greatly appreciate the donations we have received in her name but we still need your help. Please consider sending us a few dollars to help cover her continued expenses. Please check out our web site at www.shepherdrescue.org for more information about our dogs, our adoption process and to download an application. You must have a fully approved application on file prior to privately meeting our dogs. We do not have a facility, all our dogs are housed in private foster homes throughout MD/DC/VA areas. More information available on our web site, so please read through our web site before emailing questions, as it might save us both some time!

VGSR can only adopt dogs out in the Virginia/Maryland/DC area, no exceptions.

Although donations of all types are needed, our primary need is foster homes for our lovely dogs while they wait for their new family to find them. Fostering is an extremely rewarding experience. Vet care is paid for by our rescue, and we can even provide you with food. All YOU need to add is love and security.

The adoption process starts with the applicant filling out the adoption application. This can happen at any time during the process, before or after having met a GSD that might be the ideal companion. (It's an advantage to have a pre-approved application on file with VGSR. It should be stressed here that being pre-approved does not mean that any potential adopter can select any available dog at will and take that dog home immediately. VGSR will exercise its best judgement as to which GSD will be the best match for that specific adopter based on a number of qualifying criteria. Many GSDs that come to us are matched up with their new people very quickly because their people have been pre-approved.) The applicant then submits the application form with a non-refundable $10.00 processing fee. VGSR reviews the application, then schedules an interview and home visit during which a number of questions are asked and the home is reviewed to be sure there is a contained/safe yard, and to meet the family involved. Once the application is approved, the applicant is asked to submit a $250.00 donation to VGSR, and the adoption is completed.

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