Video: Wandering around with treats.
Video: Rex hanging out in the back yard.
Rex 3-year-old brown/white male mix 77 lbs Neutered
Background: Urgent adopter needed for Rex. A heartbreaking story... This guy was brought in to a vet in Stanislaus County in the spring of 2025 by a good Samaritan who found him. We suspect he had either fallen off the back of a truck or had been hit by a car. He was suffering from multiple abrasions and lacerations and a dislocated hip. A rescue advocate in the Modesto area notified us... and we mobilized to get him the heck out of there and into our program. After a few quick vet visits and med boarding, he was treated for his wounds and underwent FHO surgery in April 2025 to resolve the dislocated femur bone. Rex spent many months with a foster during and after his recovery. During his foster period, we learned that Rex has significant anxieties out in the world... on leash walks... and have been unable to effectively resolve these anxieties.
What Rex's Prior Foster Says: Rex came to me following hip surgery. He is completely housebroken and increasing the length of his walks that he takes with my neighbor's female lab. Rex has learned to love his crate after some work and easily chills for a few hours when I need to leave the house. Rex has a healthy appetite and sleeps through the night on a dog bed in my room. He is very well behaved inside the house and barks very little. Loves to hang out in my backyard and monitor the squirrel activity. I have introduced him to several neighborhood dogs and he is happy to spend calm time with them in my backyard. Rex does have a very intense prey drive that on our walks when he sees other dogs and animals. He is a strong boy and difficult to walk on a leash. Rex loves all people but he is quite anxious/reactive with other dogs besides the neighbors' dogs. He is an absolute angel inside my home.
What Rex's Rescue Rep Says: Quite a rescue and recovery for Rex. Rex is fine with dogs he has been properly (and slowly) introduced to. But he is hyper vigilant and alert on walks about the neighborhood. He becomes quite anxious and hyper-aroused when he sees other dogs, cats, squirrels, etc... and kinda loses his mind. We have enlisted the help of several professional dog trainers to design a rehabilitation/de-sensitization program for Rex with varying albeit limited success. He will need a savvy and strong adopter who is game to take on this awesome dog. Not for a home with kids or cats. Rex would do best with an experienced dog owner that will give him regular exercise and continue with his rehabilitation. Rex needs a committed adopter who accepts that Rex will be best served by living in their home and backyard -- with no leash-walks around the neighborhood, no trips to the park, etc. Our trainer advises that while Rex is sweet with humans, it is best that Rex find a sanctuary situation (adopter with backyard) with limited exposure to the outside world and dogs/animals that he does not know. We believe Rex to be a Doberman/Pit mix. A secure rural forever home would be best for Rex. We are urgently searching for that special adopter.
Medical: Rex is current on vaccinations, microchipped, heartworm negative and neutered.
Located In: Dixon.
If you want to adopt Rex, please contact Rescue Rep Dave at david.c.ely@sbcglobal.net
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