Hello world! My name is Griz and I have somehow lost my home! I am about 5.5 years old, so losing something as important as a home is strange. However, I did find Moonsong Malamute Rescue and they are assisting me in finding a new home since I did such a thorough job of losing my old one. I have all the fine qualities of Malamutes. I love people. I have selective hearing. I am beautiful. I love food. I love to walk. I consider myself above discipline. However, a few of these typical traits, I am finding out are not so good to have. This new person, my foster mom, she keeps telling "no" and she won’t feed me her food all the time. Doesn’t she understand that I deserve it? I am a Malamute after all!
Anyway, I love people. I especially like people with food! While I wait to be given my food and would not stoop to taking out of a human’s hand without an invitation, all food that I can reach and is not claimed by a human in attendance is fair game. I am just making sure it doesn’t spoil! I like children, but prefer the older ones that can reach more treats for me.
I am a curious boy and I would really like to sniff and play with a cat. I am making it my life’s goal to get my foster mom’s cat. She is making this a bigger challenge than I thought it would be. That darn cat fits under anything and everything!! I am vigilant though. I will not give up!
The only time I am not on cat patrol is when I get to go for walks or rides! I love to stick my head out the window and smell all the wonderful things in the world. I am a little restless in the car, so my foster mom straps me to keep me contained. That’s ok, she rolls the window down too and it’s almost as nice. If I can’t have a ride, I really like to walk and sniff everything around me. I do have a bad hip so I prefer shorter walks more often. My foster mom tells me I have mild hip dysplasia in my left hip so I need to lose weight. I’m not sure how I am going to do that when my foster mom keeps feeding me people food like green beans and carrots. Please don’t tell her that people food is bad for dogs on a diet!!
Griz is a typical Mal with all the typical traits and faults. He is a stubborn boy that seems to have had little to no discipline in his life. He will need an experienced home to teach him the do's and don'ts. He currently weighs about 100 pounds and needs to lose at least 15 of it and convert more of that into muscle. He is an adorable chunk of a dog. He is sweet and loves to talk in his raspy voice. His hip dysplasia has just been discovered and a treatment plan is still evolving. Surgery is not currently needed and with weight management and supplements, this may avoided entirely or at least for some years. He has no other health issues and is current on his vaccinations.
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STATUS/LOCATION: Adoption Pending. Griz is in foster care in Casper, WY. Please contact Freddie - Fredell@moonsongmals.org - for more information on Griz.
