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Greetings Everyone.
I'm from a small city in Wisconsin where both my partner and I are fortunate to say that we now have four happy faces in our family. Our precious Tangerine (adopted adult cat) that we've had for five years and now we also have our sweet four year old Mocha. This will be my second doberman and my partners first. My first doberman was a black and tan sweetheart that made me want no other breed other than a doberman for the rest of my life. I've been a lurker for awhile now (I love this forum) and wanted to finally say hello. I'm also excited to have you all meet our lovely rescued Dober/Lab girl Mocha Chocolata Ya Ya. (Mocha for short)
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[Doesn't she have a cute lower "pout" lip?]
The Story of How We Now Have a Mocha
We traveled from Wisconsin for 11 hours til we reached Ohio this past Sunday. Why travel 11 hours one way and another 11 hours back? Well ... we knew we wanted to add a dobie to our family so we had been in the process of looking for a puppy/younger dobie through PetFinder. We found Mocha on PetFinder & had also seen that she was listed on DogsInDanger as a sweet girl that only had 2 days left to live (due to shelter space). We decided to give her one last shot at life so we called the shelter and asked if they would let her live one more day til we could get there on Sunday. So why an adult and not a puppy? We noticed from our research that Wisconsin has many no-kill shelters and even a doberman rescue so we felt pretty confident that eventually those dobies would find loving homes and of course the puppies on Petfinder would also probably find homes as well.
The trip was on. And on our way to Ohio we talked about how we simply hoped that she would do well during a cat test and that she would take to us as much as we would take to her during our visit. It would've been extremely hard to not take her home, knowing her fate, if the fit was not right for either her or us. Thank our lucky stars ... she was more than we ever could've hoped for and she seemed to bond with us from the get-go. Only slight negative we could say about her was the fact that she was not a good walker on the leash at all - which we expected. (puller & obsessive sniffer) But that is OK because as of today we have started walks with a gentle leader and what a difference!
So there you have it - this is our Mocha. She may be older than we had originally wanted and she isn't a pure dobie either, but eh so what! We love her and she loves us and that is all that matters. So that is my introduction to myself and our little family.
Thank You
I'm from a small city in Wisconsin where both my partner and I are fortunate to say that we now have four happy faces in our family. Our precious Tangerine (adopted adult cat) that we've had for five years and now we also have our sweet four year old Mocha. This will be my second doberman and my partners first. My first doberman was a black and tan sweetheart that made me want no other breed other than a doberman for the rest of my life. I've been a lurker for awhile now (I love this forum) and wanted to finally say hello. I'm also excited to have you all meet our lovely rescued Dober/Lab girl Mocha Chocolata Ya Ya. (Mocha for short)
[Doesn't she have a cute lower "pout" lip?]
The Story of How We Now Have a Mocha
We traveled from Wisconsin for 11 hours til we reached Ohio this past Sunday. Why travel 11 hours one way and another 11 hours back? Well ... we knew we wanted to add a dobie to our family so we had been in the process of looking for a puppy/younger dobie through PetFinder. We found Mocha on PetFinder & had also seen that she was listed on DogsInDanger as a sweet girl that only had 2 days left to live (due to shelter space). We decided to give her one last shot at life so we called the shelter and asked if they would let her live one more day til we could get there on Sunday. So why an adult and not a puppy? We noticed from our research that Wisconsin has many no-kill shelters and even a doberman rescue so we felt pretty confident that eventually those dobies would find loving homes and of course the puppies on Petfinder would also probably find homes as well.
The trip was on. And on our way to Ohio we talked about how we simply hoped that she would do well during a cat test and that she would take to us as much as we would take to her during our visit. It would've been extremely hard to not take her home, knowing her fate, if the fit was not right for either her or us. Thank our lucky stars ... she was more than we ever could've hoped for and she seemed to bond with us from the get-go. Only slight negative we could say about her was the fact that she was not a good walker on the leash at all - which we expected. (puller & obsessive sniffer) But that is OK because as of today we have started walks with a gentle leader and what a difference!
So there you have it - this is our Mocha. She may be older than we had originally wanted and she isn't a pure dobie either, but eh so what! We love her and she loves us and that is all that matters. So that is my introduction to myself and our little family.
Thank You
