Services Prairie States Offers For Our Dobermans:

First of all, our shelter as with many others, do background checks, home visits, and vet references of potential adopters.  We want to ensure we are not placing our dogs in homes that have a history of criminal activities or poor veterinary care.

We try to get all of the dogs into foster homes.  No one wants to see a dog “rotting away” at a shelter in a enclosure day after day.

Our foster homes and shelter volunteers all  use positive re-enforcement training.  You never know if a dog has ben abused.   Thus, causing the dog pain to train it just doesn’t make sense, in this case or any other for that fact.

All Dobermans are vet checked prior to adoption.  We spay and neuter, vaccinate, deworm, check for Heartworms, and will treat for Heartworms if the dog has them.  We treat all treatable condition.  Additionally, we work with behavioral problems.

As with other “No-Kill” groups we sometimes are not able to take in more dogs.  Additionally, sometimes Dobermans are at good shelters, or with their current owners and just need some help networking.  In these cases we still list dogs needing to be-rehomed (adopted) on our adoption websites and/or our Face Book page.  .  www.FaceBook.com/IowaDobermans.

Dobermans are a highly intelligent breed. They are easily trained with the correct tools.  We recommend Positive Reinforcement tools such as clicker training  and or head-collars.  We do not recommend choke chains, pinch/prong collars, or shock collars.