SPDR Rottweiler Rescue

11/07/2025

***COURTESY POST*** check out the nub wags 🥰. Django sounds like a great catch - go adopt this sweetheart.

11/07/2025

We love Bear! We are bummed he is still in need of an adoptive home. All we hear is what a wonderful boy he is. Bear is a cross post for his rescuers at Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue . Let's hit our share buttons for Bear today and hope this time around his adopter will finally see him! 🙏🐾🤞🐾

Bear was an owner surrender to rescue. Bear is aptly named – he’s a big guy – Bear is only part of his name – because the first part has to be “Teddy.” He’s 8 years old and weighed in at 125 pounds when he recently went to the vet to update his vaccines. He’s a total love with people of all ages, including the vet!

It was reported that Bear was good with other dogs, including little dogs ( he was raised with a small breed dog), but Bear has never been around cats. Bear is very reactive when meeting other dogs - barking and lunging in a threatening manner. He gets along with his foster sister and brother (a Rottweiler and a Chihuahua) and a regular sleepover guest (Belgian Malinois) but it took some time. He would probably do best as an only dog, but with time and patience, could live with another dog if introduced slowly.

Bear is learning manners in his foster home (still working on counter surfing!) and is eager to please. He’s crate trained and house trained as well. As mentioned, Bear had some leash reactivity to work through, but he's a smart guy and just needs someone to help him get over his excitement. He knows the basics now and is better about learning to interact with other dogs respectfully. It takes time, but with force-free training (no prong, choke, or e collar) his rescuers believe that Bear is a good boy who can learn to get along with other dogs - he's already proven he can! Bear loves to give high-fives and is just a happy boy. Watching him rolling in the grass with all four paws in the air is as adorable as it sounds.

After a long stay with his rescue foster, Bear is ready for true forever home!

Bear is posted for Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue based in Redmond, WA. You can find out more about Bear here: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bear-70607912/wa/redmond/seattle-purebred-dog-rescue-wa66/

This is not an Old Dog Haven dog. Old Dog Haven has not assessed this dog for medical issues and will not be responsible for medical care after adoption. We urge prospective adopters to do their own evaluation

11/07/2025

https://www.facebook.com/61552363787727/posts/122267942822078792/?app=fbl

It was after my dog barked for what felt like the hundredth time at something I couldn’t see, eyes alert, tail stiff, chest lifted as if to say, something is here, that I realized I live with a creature whose world I don’t fully understand.

I stood there in the dim hallway, seeing only stillness, while he stood on edge, certain of what my senses couldn’t grasp. I feed him, walk him, love him, yet there are places in his world I’ll never reach. I call him “companion,” but how much of him remains a mystery?

That day, I accepted a quiet truth: my dog inhabits a universe I cannot see, smell, or hear. He moves through invisible layers of scent and sound, guided by instinct and memory, navigating a parallel world that exists beside mine — but not within it. Reading Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz opened a door into that unseen world.

1. Dogs Smell in Layers We Cannot Imagine
When my dog pauses for five minutes at a patch of grass, I used to tug the leash impatiently. Not anymore. Horowitz reveals that to a dog, every scent is a history—who was here, when, what they felt. Smell is a dog’s way of reading the world, and rushing them through it is like flipping through a novel without letting them finish the sentences. Now, I wait. Now, I watch him read.

2. They Aren’t Just Reacting, They’re Interpreting
That late-night bark wasn’t random. Dogs construct a world based on their own sensory data. They hear frequencies we cannot, feel vibrations we ignore. Horowitz describes this not as a flaw in humans, but a difference. One that demands we stop interpreting their behavior solely through our lens. What looks irrational to us is completely sensible to them.

3. Anthropomorphism Is Comforting, But It Misses the Point
We often love our dogs like small, furry people. But Horowitz gently cautions against this. Dogs are not stand-ins for humans—they are remarkable creatures in their own right, with drives and delights we’ll never fully share. She invites us to stop projecting and start observing. The gift of knowing a dog is not in making them like us, but in learning to love them for who they are.

4. To Understand a Dog, You Must Lower Yourself—Literally and Figuratively
Horowitz speaks about the “umwelt,” the unique perceptual world of an organism. To get close to understanding our dogs, we must kneel, listen, observe at their level. It’s not just about looking at them. It’s about seeing with them. Letting go of our dominance and embracing curiosity. That shift, from master to witness, is where connection deepens.

5. The Most Profound Love Begins in Respect
We think we love our dogs well. But sometimes, love is control in disguise: commands, corrections, expectations. Horowitz reminds us that the deepest affection doesn’t seek to mold or manage, it seeks to know. To respect your dog’s nature. Their rhythms. Their quirks. And in doing so, you become not their trainer, but their companion.

Inside of a Dog changed how I walk, how I speak, how I pause when my dog stops to lift his nose to the wind. It taught me to honor the unseen world that runs beside my own. Love, I learned, isn’t always loud. Sometimes, it’s patient. Sometimes, it smells like everything we can’t smell. Sometimes, it barks at what we cannot see. And yet, it’s no less real.

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11/04/2025

FOSTER OR ADOPTER NEEDED

Meet Bear and Honey! These two cuties are a bonded pair currently in an Eastern Washington shelter and they are in urgent need. I don't have a lot of information about them but was told that they're purebred (Honey has a large white marking on her chest, which isn't unheard of in poorly bred Rottweilers) and are about a year old. Bear is neutered and Honey is spayed, and they are both up to date on their vaccines. They are friendly with people and other dogs, and I'm waiting for more information - if they've been around kids or cats, etc. I don't know if they're house trained or if they've lived in a house (house manners).

Washington State - no interstate transports. Will consider Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and B.C. adopters.

Apply to adopt: https://forms.spdrdogs.org/Adoption/

If you're interested in fostering, Message me.

11/01/2025

Truth.

10/30/2025

***COURTESY POST*** Go get this cutie! His eye spots are the BEST! Multnomah County Animal Services has him - but not for long! Go adopt, before someone else does!

10/26/2025

Honey's up on this month's dogs. Buy some of her cookies and support SPDR Rottweiler Rescue!

This month, we're spotlighting the winners of our Rottweiler Photo Contest. These pups were selected from many entries, and their owners have graciously agreed to allow us to add their wonderful photos to our treats.Each owner has selected a dog rescue charity to benefit, and $5 from every bag sold....

10/26/2025

11/1/2025 - FOSTER FOUND!!

‼️‼️URGENT‼️‼️FOSTER OR ADOPTER NEEDED ASAP!!‼️🆘

Does this cutie look familiar? You may remember Wilma from a couple weeks ago, when she was posted with a male (unrelated case), both of them looking for a foster home. Now being called Juno, she was adopted last Saturday by some folks on the waitlist and we've learned that she's very nearly perfect. Except for one thing - she detests their docile, nonaggressive male Rottweiler. Even taking it slow and keeping them separated, when she gets a glimpse of him she zeros in and exhibits aggression towards him, (which he is intimidated by and tries to avoid). She's fine with the senior Jack Russell Terrier in the home, but unfortunately she's not going to work out and needs a new placement.

Wilma/Juno is about 3 years old, spayed, microchipped, and up to date on vaccines. She's a good sized girl at 91 pounds, is house trained and has good house manners, and knows basic obedience. She rides well in the car and is good on leash. And best of all, she's absolutely lovely with all humans she meets - a "never met a stranger" kind of girl, friendly and affectionate to people of all ages. At the shelter she was having some barrier reactivity after a couple of weeks, so while she *might* be good with another dog in the home, it would have to be on a case by case basis. A dog of a smaller breed (under 70 pounds) would probably work best, but she'd be great as an only dog, so she could be queen of her castle. Her adopter feels she might be good with cats, given how she ignores the Jack Russell (when she met him she sniffed him and licked him gently).

Apply to adopt Juno: https://forms.spdrdogs.org/Adoption/

Washington State, no interstate transports. Oregon, BC, Idaho, and Montana adopters will be considered.

10/22/2025

***ADOPTED***
Another Courtesy Post for Molly*** Contact Seattle Humane to adopt this girl.