This is both National Adopt a Shelter Dog Week and Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. In honor of this momentous occasion, we bring you the top ten things you need to think about when you’re picking out a new member for your family.
Continue reading Tuesday Top Ten: Tips for Choosing Your Shelter Dog
Meet Archie! Archie is currently being fostered by It’s a Pittie Rescue in Peotone, Illinois. Here’s what their website has to say about him.
Continue reading Shelter Sunday: It’s A Pittie Rescue / Peotone, IL
Meet Skip! Skip is currently living in foster care with McPaws Regional Animal Shelter in McCall, ID. Here’s what their website has to say about this cute little fella. Continue reading Shelter Sunday: McPaws Regional Animal Shelter / McCall, ID
Meet Boing! (What a great name for a dog.) Boing is a Dobie / Lab mix currently residing at the Tasha Ohana Animal Sanctuary in Hilo, Hawaii. Here’s what the sanctuary has to say about this active dog.
Continue reading Shelter Sunday: Tasha Ohana Animal Sanctuary / Hilo, HI
Meet Jazmine! This beautiful American Staffordshire Terrier / Labrador Retriever mix is currently living in foster care with K9 Angels in Jonesboro, GA. Here’s what their website has to say about this darling:
From HSPCAnimals.org:
It is with extreme sadness that we announce that the shelter will be closing on September 30, 2011. We have been instructed that all animals are to be placed by the 30th or be euthanized.
Any animal at the shelter that is already spayed/neutered will be adopted out with a “choose your own adoption fee” special. Those not spayed/neutered will be adopted out with an adoption fee to cover the costs. ALL adopted animals will be s/n before going home. PLEASE help us place these animals!
Between now and the end of September, the shelter will be open Tuesday and Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. for adoptions.
Financial donations are still desperately needed to cover costs through the end of the month, in addition to covering debts.
When I checked at PetFinder this morning, there were 5 dogs and 23 cats left in need of a home. Please help if you can! Contact info: 765.653.5739 or [email protected]
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
A man in Kirkland, WA backs out of his driveway the other day, and stops to find a beautiful Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with a note attached to his collar. The note asks that someone take care of the beloved Mr. B, who was abandoned after a divorce when neither parent wanted the dog.
What a heartbreaking story…but it has a happy ending. Mr. Wu, the man who found the dog, took Mr. B to work, where he has since been adopted.
Until next time,
Good day, and good dog!
Meet Petra! Petra is currently living with Canine Castaways in Arcadia, FL. I was fascinated by this dog because of her parentage. Dachshund & Black Lab…really? I’m just trying to imagine the physics of her conception. But I digress. Here’s what Canine Castaway’s website has to say about this beauty.
Continue reading Shelter Sunday: Canine Castaways / Arcadia, FL
OK, it’s late in the day, and I’m not sure how I missed this, but:
I posted earlier this week about Rocky, a disabled and retired military war dog who needed to be adopted. Camp Pendleton was apparently overrun with requests to adopt the distinguished 3-tour veteran of Iraq.
I’ve personally never taken in a differently-abled dog (my kids are enough of a handful!) Would you adopt a dog with special needs? Keep in mind these are the dogs most often euthanized when they wind up in shelters.
Continue reading Saturday Survey: Would You Adopt a Disabled Dog