Mac

MEET MAC — A EXTRA LARGE ROTTIE/DOBERMAN/MASTIFF MIXOn Monday, August 23, 2026, we officially welcomed a gigantic Rottweiler/Doberman mix named Mac into the rescue.Mac’s story actually starts with a neighbor in Kingman.The neighbor remembers when Mac first moved in next door. He was just a little puppy then, visible through the chain-link fence that separated their yards. For more than two years, he watched Mac live outside — through the coldest nights and the hottest Arizona days.Then one day, Mac’s family moved away.And they left Mac behind.They never came back.His neighbor couldn’t just watch him go hungry, so he started feeding Mac and giving him water over the fence.

For the next couple of months, that’s how Mac survived.Then one day, Animal Control arrived to remove him.Imagine being Mac. Strange people suddenly enter the only yard you’ve known, chasing you with a snare. When they finally got the cold steel loop around his neck and began restraining him, Mac panicked and fought desperately to get away.That reaction landed him on the euthanasia list.But his neighbor knew the dog on that list wasn’t the Mac he knew.He went to the shelter and asked if he could take Mac himself. At first, they told him no — Mac was considered too dangerous.So he showed them pictures of this supposedly “dangerous” dog kissing him through the fence. They changed their minds.He brought Mac home with the intention of finding him a good home, but every time someone showed interest, something didn’t feel right. He worried that some people wanted this enormous, intimidating-looking dog for all the wrong reasons.So he kept saying no.Unfortunately, his own dog didn’t like Mac and would attack him — and amazingly, Mac wouldn’t even fight back.After a couple of months, he called Rotten Rottie Rescue for help.We didn’t have room at the Ranch, so I called Amanda at Paw Creek Dog Training and asked if she could take him. She could — but we had to wait a couple of weeks for a spot to open.Monday was finally Mac’s day. His neighbor drove him all the way down from Kingman on Sunday, and Paul Davis drove him to Amanda Monday morning.And today, Amanda sent me our first official Mac PupDate:“Mac the Knife is doing really, really well! I worked him for the first time today — prong and e-collar right off the bat because he is TOO DAMN BIG. He was either trained before, or he is one of the easiest dogs to train, which is pretty common with Dobies.I was very careful the first couple of days mainly because of his size. If he was going to do anything, there wasn’t a whole lot I was going to be able to do. Thank God he is super, super sweet!Now, he WILL eat a kitty. And he is a giant, so he is going to need someone who wants to build a relationship with him. I would hate for anyone to get hurt in any way by him.”So there you have it.The enormous, “dangerous” dog who almost lost his life because he panicked when strangers tried to snare him turns out to be a super sweet, ridiculously trainable giant. Mac still has some work ahead of him, and his future home is going to need to understand that a dog this large and powerful requires structure, leadership and a real relationship with his person. One of the benefits of having Amanda train our dogs is that she will support the dog's future family with free training lessons so that you can continue to make Mac the best version of himself. You can take Mac to her place for as many free lessons as you would like, and she is always available by text or a phone call for any advice that you need. And definitely NO CATS. But Mac is alive today because one neighbor cared enough to feed a forgotten dog, fought for him when the shelter thought he was dangerous, protected him from people he didn’t trust, drove him hundreds of miles to us, and refused to give up until Mac was safe.Sometimes it really does take just one person to change a dog’s entire life.Welcome to Rotten Rottie Rescue, Mac. Your old family may have driven away and