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Hello and welcome to the page we have dedicated to the dogs living at 4 Paws who are more suited for work in a typical family as a pet dog. It is an honor for any dog to be accepted into a service dog school but like med school, not everyone who starts the program is cut out for the work involved. On this page we (Gracie and Piper) will tell you all about our friends here at 4 Paws who need homes. Our friends have great big hearts and are ready and willing to take their place in your home and do a great job as a member of your family. We guarantee they will love you unconditionally, let every stranger know that they are guarding your family from any mud monsters, swap men, or other aliens that might descend on earth, and will do their best to be excellent furry companions. Piper is doing the dictating for this page, can you tell? She is so dramatic. Though there really aren't any monsters or aliens they will still keep a watchful eye and ear out for your family. They will play ball, lay and watch TV with you, or go for a walk with you to smell the flowers and pee on the trees. We dogs know you all would love to do this yourself but some societal standards prohibit it, so they will let you live vicariously through them. Anyway, if you think one of our friends might fit into your family, send us an email and let us know. We use Karen's email address: karen4paws@aol.com for adoptions. You are welcome though to drop us a personal email as well.

PORSHA

LEGO

BASIC OBEDIENCE TRAINING

SMOOTH COLLIE x AUSSIE

HOUSE or "CELL" BROKEN --- CRATE TRAINED

ENERGETIC

FULLY OBEDIENCE TRAINED

HOUSE or "CELL" BROKEN --- CRATE TRAINED

BD: 1-19-2009

Black Labrador Retriever

The Meaning of Rescue

Now that I'm home, bathed, settled and fed,
All nicely tucked in my new warm bed,
I'd like to open my baggage, lest I forget.
There is so much to carry... so much to regret.

Hmm...Yes, there it is, right on the top...
Let's unpack Loneliness, Heartache and Loss,
And there by my leash hides Fear and Shame.
As I look on these things I tried so hard to leave...
I still have to unpack my baggage called Pain.

I loved them, the others, the ones who left me,
But I wasn't good enough - for they didn't want me.

Will you add to my baggage?
Will you help me unpack?
Or will you just look at my things...
And take me right back?

Do you have the time to help me unpack?
To put away my baggage,
To never repack?

I pray that you do... I'm so tired you see,
But I do come with baggage...

Will you still want me?

~ Evelyn Colbath ~

Most of the dogs on this page at one time found themselves in a shelter or abandoned by their families and in need of someone to care enough to save them. We stepped in to bring them hope and while they live safely in our care they long for a one on one relationship with a family of their own. We hope you might be the family one of them is looking for.

*note: occasionally we list a dog here that was donated by someone who truly loved them, as a puppy, to be a service dog but just did not quite make the program.

ADDIE	TBONE
Addie is a Min Pin Mix of some sort. She is larger than a Min Pin and weighs about 20 - 25 pounds. She is a gentle girl who was found wandering the streets by one of our trainers. She had recently weaned a litter of puppies. Addie has been spayed and is ready for a loving home to call her own. She is done with life on the street and ready to settle down. Are you the home for her?	TBone is a Redbone Coonhound Mix who was born 1-15-2010. He will not be a very large dog. Probably about 50 pounds.
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BLAZER

RAPHAEL

Wonderful, sweet German Shepherd Dog. Fully Obedience trained and housebroken.

BD: 3-12-2008

Raphael is a Redbone Coonhound Mix. He was born 1-15-2010

AUNNA

CAMDEN

BASIC OBEDIENCE TRAINING

BD: 2-10-2008

HOUSE or "CELL" BROKEN --- CRATE TRAINED

Lab mix. A very nice family rescued this litter from a field where their Mom had been killed by a tractor and the farmer had left them to die only a few days old. They lived in Arkansas but so badly wanted them to be safe that they drove them to us here at 4 paws. We are unsure what mix these pups really are but many look like Lab mixes.

BD: 8-12-2009 Male

ANDRE'

JACKSON

BASIC OBEDIENCE TRAINING

Curly Coated Lab Mix BD: 7-21-2009

HOUSE or "CELL" BROKEN --- CRATE TRAINED

BOXER MIX

FULLY OBEDIENCE TRAINED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BD: 5-5-2009

BLACK LABRADOR RETRIEVER

HOUSEBROKEN IN THE PRISON SYSTEM AND CRATE TRAINED

MENA

LOKI

BD: 8-12-2009 Female

BASIC OBEDIENCE TRAINING

Curly Coated Lab Mix BD: 7-16-2008

HOUSE or "CELL" BROKEN --- CRATE TRAINED

CHECKERS

PETRA

BASIC OBEDIENCE TRAINING

BD: 9-6-2009

HOUSE or "CELL" BROKEN --- CRATE TRAINED

FUN PUPPY!

Petra is a Redbone Coonhound who was turned over to the dog Pound in Kentucky, very pregnant and ready to deliver any moment. They were "tired" of her having so many puppies. Petra who is only about 2 years old and this is probably her 3rd or 4th litter given the condition of her body at the time she came in. 4 Paws brought Petra to 4 Paws so she would not loose her puppies to the cold cement floor of the shelter and she had 11 puppies. The Christian Music Litter. They appear to be Redbone x Bloodhound or some other coonhound.

BD: 12-29-2007 Petra's puppies are weaned, we are having her spayed and she is ready for a home of her own. Do you have a loving family who can give this girl a real life? One she has never known before? She is loving and sweet. She adores people and would be fine with kids. She would prefer a home without other dogs.