Heartland Livestock Guardian Dog Rescue is a group of working LGD owners who are dedicating their time, years of experience, home and farm, transportation resources, and private funding, to ensure that the Livestock
Guardian Dogs who have been abandoned or are in need of rehoming, get the best possible chance to become, or remain LGD's.
Our main goal is to locate and secure homeless or endangered dogs of the LGD breeds (including: Anatolian, Great Pyrenees, Maremma, Akbash, Tibetan Mastiff, Komondor, Kuvasz, Kangal) and immediately get them into working foster homes for evaluation. If the dogs pass the requirements for being rehomed into a working environment, then the best home for the DOG will be located. If the dog shows no working capabilities, and no desire to guard livestock, then the best home for the DOG will be likewise located.
In no way is this organization committed to promoting show stock. It will not demand obedience certification for its placed dogs, due to the fact that many of them will be in remote areas, on working farms. It is not supportive of irresponsible breeding practices and irresponsible breeders. Heartland LGD Rescue is dedicated to finding working homes for capable dogs BEFORE searching for companion homes. It is our belief that LGD's have been bred thru the years for a purpose, and that purpose is to guard livestock. Not all LGD's will be instinctively suited for this lifestyle, but we will do our best to evaluate and give that chance to every single dog that comes thru our service.
Heartland LGD Rescue will strive to educate and keep up communications with adopters, potential adopters, and in-passing interested parties. We will offer ongoing support for adoptive homes and non-adoptive owners of LGD's who are in need. We will work towards educating the various animal shelters in the surrounding states of what breeds and mixes of LGD's are common, and how to identify them. We will set up local contacts for these
shelters, so that the dogs will have to spend the least amount of time in confinement. Heartland LGD Rescue will set up local and outlying working foster homes, for evaluation after the dogs are pulled from the shelters.
Heartland LGD Rescue will enforce a spay and neuter policy. The goal is to prevent accidental and unwanted litters to be born, therefore putting more dogs into rescue, or worse. All shots, surgeries, and testing will be up to date at time of adoption.
