Since 2008, our 160+ volunteers have helped us place over 90 Great Danes into their forever homes.

UMGDR Danes

The Great Danes memorialized on this page once were fosters with UMGDR. Do you know of a UMGDR Dane you would like to memorialize, find out how.

Angel – August 2009
“Angel truly is an Angel now.” People keep telling me that once they hear the news about her death. What they don’t know is that she was an Angel before she passed. She touched so many lives in the short time that she was with us that it is difficult not to think of her as an Angel. My favorite part about Angel was that she took everything in stride. Pain, neglect, cruelty and illness never kept her from living her life, she rolled with the punches. She was the sweetest dog and she had every reason not to be.

I don’t regret a single moment or decision when it comes to Angel. There were people at the beginning telling us to put her down, there was no saving her, or that it was too much money to spend on a foster. Those people clearly never met Angel, otherwise they would have thought differently. In the end they were right, we couldn’t save her. But our combined efforts allowed her to have the best 4 months of her life and what dog doesn’t deserve to know what it’s like to be fed everyday, allowed access to water, a kind hand to pet them or a couch to lay on? I will never forget the first time that she ran full speed in our backyard after about a month of recovery. I was so happy to see her so happy that it brought tears to my eyes, how could anyone deny such a wonderful thing to such a compassionate dog?

The biggest lesson that Angel taught us is that yes, you can’t save them all, but it is worth it to try.