Safe Haven of Iowa County

Diez was born at his foster home on Halloween - after his mom Roxie (that came into the local Pound as a stray a few weeks earlier) suprised us all by have a large litter of 10 puppies!  While we had come to realize that Roxie was pregnant, and found a wonderful foster home for her to get settled into before having the puppies - her prenatal ultrasound had suggested she was carrying 7 or 8 puppies!  Roxie has been a wonderful mother to her large litter, but also seems happy that this will be her last litter!  We also were contacted by people that knew Roxie's original owner and they told us the father of this litter is a Pyrenees / Lab mix - so her 10 puppies do have the potential to be pretty large dogs, and two of the puppies do indeed have the double dew-claws that is common in the Pyrenees breed. 

Diez, which was the tenth puppy born in his litter, is now 6 weeks old (on 12/12/2024) and they have all recieved their first vaccinations and are microchipped .....so we can now be sure to tell them apart from each other correctly!  Once they are 8 weeks old, they will receive a second Distemper (DA2PP) booster vaccine, kennel cough vaccine, deworming, and monthly heartworm and flea/tick preventative. We anticipate this litter to be ready to go to their forever homes the first week of January!

These puppies will be adopted out on a spay/neuter contract, which means their adoptive families will sign a contract stating the puppies will be spayed/neutered when they are a bit older and will be required to bring the puppy back to Safe Haven for us to spay/neuter when the puppy is between 6 to 9 months old, at no additional cost. The other option for each adoptive family would be to have the surgery done with their veterinarian at the family's own cost, and provide us proof of that surgery once complete.

The ideal adoptive family will be committed to taking a puppy obedience class right away to get started on the right foot - they will need a family that can commit to continue proper socialization and also all the work that goes into house-training a puppy, which requires a lot of patience and persistence with working on a schedule. Puppies need to be taken outside frequently - as often as every 4 hours in the beginning. So an ideal home for these puppies will be one where they won't have long periods of time during the day spent alone during the first few months, so they can have the best chance of successful housetraining and have years of wonderful love and devotion to focus on! 

If you are interested in adopting Diez or one of his littermates please fill out an adoption application as the first step of the adoption process. The adoption application can be found on our website at www.wesavepets.com. Once the application has been approved, a Safe Haven volunteer will be in contact to set up the adoption.

Interested in adopting this pet? Please click the adoption info link for more information. And then click on the "Online Application" link at the bottom of that page. 

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