Georgie: Foster-to-adopt available American Staffordshire Terrier Mix Rochester, NY

GEORGIE is a surrender who was a stray that two houses were feeding and supporting - he got along great with the other resident dogs who are his size, and cats, as well as the people including the kids! Everyone loved Georgie! He's about a year old because they had him around since a little puppy. What he did NOT do well with was the chickens, which unfortunately he liked a bit TOO much and killed when he got access. So he'd be great for any home except one with livestock. He's new to the rescue and we'll share more first-hand info and pics as we get them from his temporary foster. He does have a foster-to-adopt option or even just another temporary foster would be great as he is currently with a foster who is not the biggest fan of other dogs, so we're having to have him crated much of the time only for that reason. He's about 50 lbs or so. He's fully vetted.

Adoption fee INCLUDES: all vetting to age (including deworming, flea & tick etc), spay/neuter and microchip (if the dog is under 6 months, alter and chip will occur after they're 6 months, covered in full at our clinic or reimbursed partially at a vet of your choosing). If the dog is older than 6 months and not yet altered, we will schedule ASAP (normally within 30 days) at our clinic . We also provide as an incentive a $60 rebate for completion of positive-based training classes. Adoption also includes lifetime support of the rescue.

Please fill out an APPLICATION here for consideration: www.tinyurl.com/appshdr (copy and paste link into browser window if link is not active in your browser).

We do most application processing virtually and dog meets will be individually by appointment with ONLY APPROVED APPLICANTS. We are not a shelter and are completely volunteer foster-based, so there is no central place to come see all of the dogs available.

IMPORTANT NOTES: ** Housetraining with rescues is sometimes a work in progress and even if a dog is 100% in a foster's home, it should be expected there will be an adjustment period as a dog adapts to a new environment. This is even more true if the dog has not by chance had their altering appointment at time of adoption. ** Also, we highly recommend some form of 2-week shutdown and decompression for dogs going to a new home for best results. --> Lastly, breed guesses in rescue are just that (GUESSES!!) 99.9% of the time. We do not do DNA testing and our breed guesses are based on appearance and sometimes other traits, but we know the dog breed guessing game is a fool's errand even for those with LOTS of experience.

PLEASE NOTE: If a dog is listed as Adoptable, he or she is still available at that time. Also, our adoption area is within a several hour radius of us in Rochester, NY (Canada within 3 hours IS allowed, except that young puppies need to be old enough to have gotten their rabies vaccination to cross the border - usually around 16 weeks)