Rescue Stories

Great Dane Rescue of MN/WI rescued 9 Great Danes living in a minivan.

Minneapolis/St. Paul Pride Festival, 2017 was my moment. My wife and I had just gotten married and were on to the next natural step – adding a dog to the family.  While at Pride, we spotted a local Great Dane rescue group and immediately became obsessed with the breed. Those large, gentle, goofy faces stole …

In July 2018 a shelter in IL reached out to us in desperate need of helping a senior dane, Coal. Coal was extremely resource aggressive with other dogs and couldn’t be around little animals. He tugged at the heartstrings of one of our fosters who took him under her wing. She does have little dogs, …

Callie was a stray in 2018 who was heart worm positive. We were contacted by the humane society in Coon Rapids to take her as she needed to be with experienced fosters. She cowered at the site of a man, I remember picking her up and a gentleman walked into the waiting room and she …