Looking to adopt the right dog

Evac101

Hello all, long time since I last posted on boards but I'm hoping for some help from the community.

My wife and myself are hoping to add a third dog to our family in the near future. We've had two+ dogs for almost a decade at this point and are accustomed to managing multiple hounds at a time. We currently have a collie/lab cross female (4 years this year) and a uhm, undetermined, large/giant (45kg) reverse brindle fella (10 years this year).

As the older fella doesn't especially like intact, mature males we're hoping to find a dog pup, in the order of 8-12 weeks old* at the point we take it home. We're happy to adopt a 'restricted' breed (though open to all breeds) in the medium to pretty-damn-large as adult weight class but want to avoid greyhounds/lurchers as, especially between March-October each year, the majority of our exercise with the dogs tends to be up the wilder trails on the Wicklow mountains. Just to reassure people, I'm familiar with the "5 minutes per month" guideline on exercise and pups get carried once they hit their limit on walks. I'm 198cm and about 115kg, it's something I can, and have, done

<Edit> Just as a last, and awkward, thing. While we have a collie cross at the moment, I'd prefer not to get a second collie cross at the moment, as one collie cross is enough frantic energy at a time </edit>

We've adopted before and are happy to be home checked (my wife actually does home checks occasionally for <snip>) and both of us are experienced dog handlers, to the point where we both have given one-on-one training in the past, at the Sunday dog training group we've attended for the last 7 years. We're also happy to have any dog we get neutered at the appropriate age, as we have done for all the dogs we've had.

If anyone has any suggestions of suitable dogs or questions, please feel free to reply. While we do live in Dublin, we're willing to travel to rescues elsewhere in the country if we feel that a dog might be the right match for our family.

* If anyone is curious as to why a dog pup in the 8-12 week (ideally 12 on the button) age range, it's on the advice of two very experienced dog trainers that we train with, who are familiar with our current dogs.

Cherry Blossom

Just a reminder to all posters that any recommendations of rescues must be made by PM only.
Thanks.

Choc Chip

That rescue has a LOAD of puppies right now OP, even if they're not up on the page. I'd get your wife to drop one of the girls a line and outline what she's looking for. Get them to let you know if they have anything to match.

If you pick the pup that I'm expecting to get for foster this week, it'll literally be the fastest rehome ever.