June 30th, 6 pm at the Bear and Firkin in Pickering at Valley Farm & Kingston Rd! FUN, FOOD & 50/50 draw! $25 per ticket! Finger foods incl and drinks of course extra.

This is for the rescues – www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html as always.

Join us please for a relaxing, fun night to talk about dogs, learn about behavour training and meet some nice dog people! Those of you who’ve adopted in the last couple months can come and meet others who’ve adopted or are dog owners too and you can learn from each other, avoid a lot of ‘common’ dog problems too.

We still have Briar Tuck since Feb and a better dog you can’t imagine! Emily is ‘Cell Dog Trained’ and perfect and we love her to pieces! Apollo is still with us 11mos now.  Sophie and Paulina, here a long time and both great dogs. Clyde or Lugnut as we call him, and Huey are HUGE at 115 & 125lb respectively.

Big dogs like these are LESS energy and time consuming than smaller or ‘regular’ breeds, they usually don’t want to sleep on your bed cuz you make it too crowded and hot and they can only sleep in one place at a time and you’d be surprised at how LITTLE SPACE THEY TAKE UP.

They are loving, good conversation stoppers or starters, Chick and Guy magnets and all around great dogs. both are 2 yrs old and Clyde is a little more energetic than Huey but nothing like a lab puppy.

What’re we funding this time? More Heart worm meds for July, August and Sept (til the next fundraiser – Xmas In Sept – 2nd annual) and I have 6 dogs here from a lady who is in a woman’s shelter with her kids but slept in her car for three months rather than give up her dogs! Shelters don’t take them and obviously not a lot of places can take that many dogs – nor would they want to when even costs aren’t covered but with your help she can still have her dogs when her life is in order.

The dogs are 14 yr old Mike, 10 yr old Cherry, 13 yr old Buddy and Tucker, Jersey and Baily who are three Jack russells all young and having fun. She ended up with her dad’s 3 dogs when he died and her life went to crap. Her dogs are here having fun and away from the stress and margaret can focus on getting well, getting a place to live and a job without worrying about her dogs.

I need to feed them, Hw med them and two are pretty old and can use some homeopathics too.

Also we have new dogs arriving on june 28th so they all need deworming, antibiotics and god knows some one will end up sick with pneumonia from kennel koff b4 the week is over!

So please come help us and have some fun too!

Unfortunately the pub is not set up to have our dogs there so we can’t bring them.

Next event – we are looking to do a full day with John Wade this time instead of a 1/2  day www.johnwade.ca only this time you’ll have booked time with him for one on one after the group session to work on something you need fixed.
It’ll cost apprx $175 for families and $90/per person but again dogs can come. We’re looking at mid july and we will start early for coolness altho we have the outbuildings for shade and the dog’s pools are open for them too.

NOTE: we will only do the seminar by RSVP AND PMT BY CREDIT CARD. we had a few too many people not show up and these seminars are to help YOU, not cost ME money please.

We also will be carrying John Wade’s Collars he designed along with our Good Dog Collars. They work well, are great for people who want to work with their dogs and train them and also easier for people with arthrits especially to use which is really great! We have all sizes. and will have his utube instructional video on our www.SuSteiner.ca website in a couple days.

Our Good Dog Collar is for us lazy dog owners, older people, busy people who have kids in tow or strollers and tired ones who don’t feel like being pulled or pulling or jerking and are always available too.

Whatever makes walking a pleasure is GREAT FOR YOUR DOG! the BEST BREED OF DOG IS AN EXHAUSTED DOG!

Hopefully we’ll see many of you on the 30th and hear from those who want to help with the 50/50 draw.

We are STILL waiting for charity status and will keep you posted.

Bestest
Su & Dave & Crew

O.K. – So I promise I won’t write every day…and I have no Catholic inclinations to confess all sins – BUT …wow – talk about ’slap me upside the head’ with “would you listen to Sue about his behaviour and stop humanizing him!!”

Let me preface this with all is beautiful…we are in the honeymoon – but did I ever F/U big time yesterday:

Rockie is glued to me with this umbilicalling – to the point where (cause the house is so small) I trip over him. His has little separation issues I think…I’m definately his person. Anyway – Off I go to do two massages in the treatment room – and put him in his crate…where his is generally well behaved with only a little whine
here n’ there. I show him to my last client who will sometimes come over to take him out in the future and we go to the back yard for a little stretch n’ pee. All’s well. Then I have to rush off to a meeting and thinking “oh, poor Rockie has been in his crate so long and he’s sooo good…I’ll just leave him in the mud room where his crate
is…and crack the window an inch or two (it’s over a stairway so rather awkward to get to)…and what can go wrong. I’m sure you know.

I got back to my neighbour saying ….my “what a little escape artiste you have!”…I thought I’d poop myself on the spot!!! (Visions of $100/hr dog behaviourist searches dancing in my head….OMG WHERE CAN HE BE???) and Katie says – “oh, no…I figured you were with a clientsto I
just put the window back down and put him back in the house.” So – with his opposable thumbs (that’d be his nose) – he nudged up the window and leaped through the screen and then had a little visit with the neighbour
and promptly sat down on the front porch at the door to wait for me.

Funnier…my tax guy came to drop off the quote for the yearly damages…and Rockie just let him in n’ out….then the neighbour called out to him and he followed her right back into our house. So there he was. All happy. EGAD! Anyway – lesson has been profoundly driven home for someone who needs “repetition for the reluctant mind”. I get it….give him a rope and he’ll hang me! (Or drive the car into a post).

Anyway – from there on…with a little thought about behaviour guiding us at all times…he’s been a dream. Great walks. Beginning to listen far more to commands. Snoozing happily while I type away here. He’s
off to the crate while I work. I did do the bang pots/throw one yesterday…and sleep was dreamy last night.

We found a fenced double tennis court and took him out for ball throwing this a.m. It’s wonderful…

But I get it. Lessons come …. but slowly and I won’t give in to the heart…rather use the head. What is it….”exercise/discipline then love”. In that order for safety.

So off again. Maybe I can get through the next week without having sins to confess and just happy learning time.

Cheers
Have a good one
Elaine

Hi Susan and Dave We just wanted wanted to thank you so much for saving us and looking after us and for finding us a wonderful and loving family.
Haydn and Lisa are great ,they give us lots of love and affection.The boys Daniel and James are so much fun.i think Freckles and i (Molly,thats my new name) are going to love it here. I’m trying to keep Freckels in line but you now how boys are lol. So once again we would like to thank you so much
Love Molly and Freckles
PS Haydn and Lisa thank you so much and wish you all the best

Join us on Saturday May 15, 2010 at 9 am, and help support a wonderful cause. Get fit and enjoy nature on this breathtaking 8K hike through the Rouge Valley.

This event will benefit “Camp LotsaDogs” a non-profit organization based in Whitby, Ontario. For only a $25 participation fee, hikers can help this organization to provide a second chance at life for these amazing animals.

As well as raising funds, our goal is to also promote environmental awareness. Just a few small things can make a real difference.

We will be asking that participants help protect the environment by picking up any garbage along the trail, and please remember to pick up any poop your dogs leaves behind. Water will be provided along the route however, in an effort to reduce waste, we ask that participants bring their own refillable water bottles.

It would also be greatly appreciated if participants could arrange a carpool to the hike.

Get your friends to join you and your four legged companions for a day of fitness and fun. Enjoy in the knowledge that we are making a difference. Those who cannot participate physically can still act as a sponsor or volunteer. If you don’t have a dog you can walk one of the rescues!!

Camp LotsaDogs used to do boarding and daycare but turned to rescuing instead. It is much more rewarding to save the lives of these helpless animals that have been dumped, abandoned or left to starve. They rescue dogs from “High Kill” shelters and shelters with low adoption rates for less popular breeds from the United States and bring them across the boarder to a safe place. Here they can start the healing process.

They work with these animals who, do to circumstances some are left with behaviour, emotional and physical problems. These can be over come with the knowledge and experience that this organization has.

They are extremely successful in placing dogs in forever homes and with this event we hope to help save even more lives.

For more information about this event, or to participate, donate, or volunteer,
Please Contact:
Laura Stacey at 905-391-6393
For more information about Camp LotsaDogs and this event, visit us online at www.susteiner.ca/events/six-legged-hike-fundraiser/

Download the event poster
Download a sponsor sheet

2010. Already. What a fast passing year 2009 was and the last 2 weeks of holidays passed all too quickly too.

We’ve had a great year for adoptions, food and wellness and we hope to grow more especially thru referals.

We’ve finally also figured out how to keep track of adoptions, how many each month. Dec/09 was 11 and that’s pretty good considering i don’t adopt out ‘gift’ or ’surprise’ dogs during december.

So far, 3 this month and it’s only the 3rd!

Home For The Holidays Foster Program was terrific! We had 5 dogs fostered out and 2 were adopted (that was not the intent but it’s a good thing and the dogs were more or less picked by the fosters who were looking for a 2nd dog) and one more likely will be.  The other two, Andy and Chaz were adopted this weekend BECAUSE of the HFTH program. Their Bio’s were updated re what they were like in homes and candid, ‘family’ shots added  to their site as well.

When people came to meet the dogs the fosters graciously came too and talked about their experience with the dog, their likes and dislikes, the funny and naughty things they did. Made it more personal and gave life to the dog’s stories.

I’m really glad we participated in the progam and definitely will next year again – hopefully more of you will take part too.

LotsaDogs Rescue has started a group on facebook dedicated to our rescue dogs, discussions for our adopters and all things DOG!! Please join us and have your friends join us too!

For The Love of Dog Wellness Centre and of course the rescues. It’s written by Krista Schaber who’s dog Mr Frodo attended the fair and writes articles under Mr Frodo’s Barks.

This is Honey

For those who don’t know, Honey is one of our great rescue dogs and she had a bowel obstruction and needed $4000 worth of hospitalization, IV’s & surgery. We have been having a drive to help pay that bill at Guildwood Animal Hospital.

Honey came home yesterday looking like a skeleton with a foot long, stapled incision and has to eat expensive vet food 6 times per day and be on leash restriction too.

She is an amazing dog who was here for weeks nameed Vicki with no applications until i changed her name to Honey – then she had 5 apps in 24 hours and was in surgery in 48!! Don’t know now if Honey is a jinx name or a good one!!

There are a number of ways to donate – Paypal on the rescue site – see Honey’s bio and pics too http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html call the vet directly to make a visa orM/C  pmt 416-265-5000 please leave your NAME, credit card number and expiry date on the machine as they are a business and may not alwasy be able to answer the phone), call or visit us to process a visa. M/C or if here, debit card pmt too.

We really appreciate all the help we have gotten so far and know people will step up to help us. WE ARE GETTING CHARITY STATUS SOON!!

Aside from the premixed frozen containers of Love My Dog Raw Diet we have been making and selling FRESH Premixed Raw Diet in 25lb buckets for people to package themselves.  We are the only ones doing this and we do it for pick up on Saturdays. It’s environmentally friendly since the buckets are reuseable as well as you using your own tupperware.

These buckets go for $3.25/lb ($81.25 per bucket + $10 deposit on the first bucket and you return your old, empty bucket for a full new one).

We sell 1lb pkgs of ground or whole chicken necks & backs ($1.25 & $1.00 respectively).

We sell ground, frozen veggies/fruit/fish & suppliments mixture for the Do It Yourself’ers – just add meat for $6.50/lb (don’t forget you’re not going thru a lb per day).

Raw Bones go for $10/bag

Dehydrated liver – the BEST training treats around are $10, $17.00 and $30 for 1/4, 1/2 & 1lb pkgs. This we can send out by express post too.

We sell Ear Solution and Healthy Hips from the Pet Comfort Company.  Both products WORK!

All this as well

everyone was talking about. 25 yrs of owning dogs, 25 yrs of daylight savings time AND I STILL FORGET TO TELL THE DOGS!

Ahh well. Maybe i’m not over it yet!

On to bigger and better topics! We’re having Hanks’s 10th b-day party on sunday the 8th from 11-2 and the microchip clinic and adoption fair from noon- 2pm.

Bring your dogs, the area is fenced in and leash free. People are expected to pick up aftet their dogs please.

Microchips are $40, cash please. Call to reserve a chip – there are only 35 of them this time. Next chip clinic is early December.

or did no one else think to tell their dogs that there was an extra hour of sleep the other night?

13 new dogs on morning number two here plus my 7 – i got ripped off for that extra hour!

Bestest

Su & Crew

The people who’s ‘results’ showed their 9 mo old, 70 lb dog to be a shizhu/parsons jack russel have NOT even received a response from the owner of the company, at least as of 6pm today when i talked to my client. (see Sept 30th post)

All she wanted was her money back but the woman who owns the company, who said her ‘reputation was everything’ doesn’t seem to feel any need to return the money.

Now i wonder. The pet industry is a  $4BILLION dollar north american industry and anyone with an idea seems to be able to make claims and not even care about inaccurate info being giving to unsuspecting peopl. They will use a rescue like us, offering to ‘help’ us make much needed money to support these dogs by asking us to use our clients to make THEM money.

Personally, I apologise for giving any of you their kits  and pledge to check out companies a little better before i refer them.

may not be all they advertise.

They say two weeks but 3 clients didn’t get theirs for a month and one of them just sent me their results.  The dog is a newfie/great dane or some large lab mix breed and after waiting a month for results they were told the strongest DNA for the dogs is a Shitzu and number 2 strongest is a Jack Parsons Terrier AHAHAHAHAHA the dog is 8 mos old and over 70lbs already ))

Having had personal experience with Mindy, the owner I think, and knowing that she personally and from that prfessionally acts on inaccurate information, neither attempting to verify anything or having proof to make a decision on, it appears the company is also not veryifying they info they send out to people who pay hard earned dollars to them.

I’m very disappointed in this company. I expected better from them and apologise PROFUSELY for offering their kits to you.

Do you have a dog or Wellness related business and need exposure in Durham Region or GTA? An inexpensive booth where you can showcase your products or service is a great place to start with us.

You’ll hve the opportunity to talk to people, give out samples (including having them in our 100 loot bags), sell your product, book your service all in a relaxed, happy atmosphere.

If you’d like to book space please contact us with your website at info@camplotsadogs.ca

Tables are $50. for the day

people with dog or wellness related products are needed to take tables at the fair. The vendor area is covered if there’s rain but if not, outdoor areas are available.

This is a GREAT way to promote your product or service to Durham Region and a lot of GTA people will be coming too.

Tables are $50. Please contact us ASAP to reserve your spot!

Dr. Clark’s Healthy Hips is a suppliment we’ve been using on Hank (yrs, as a preventative), Molsyn (6 yr old mastiff with 2 bad knees), Rufus (9 yr old lab with atrophied back leg muscles) and a couple other older or slower rescues to see how it compares to our usual use of large doses of MSM and Vitamin C as well as Sasha’s blend and a few other supps.

Dr. C’’s Healthy Hips has outstripped ALL the others. It’s biggest claim to fame for us is how quickly it works – they said 3-4 wks – we’ve found in as little a 2 weeks the dogs are walking better if they walked like old farts, running if they didn’t run b4 and jumping up too (all three in Molsyn’s case in 3 weeks).

In talking to the people who make Dr. C’s Healthy Hips we learned that anyone can say their product has glucosamine or anything else actually and as long as it’s in there they’re telling the truth. The problem is the dogs need a certain amount for it to work based on weight. Healthy Hips has the right amount, DOES WORK and we CARRY IT NOW!

Anyone who has an older dog or knows someone who does – PLEASE get them to try this product! It’s less expensive than Sasha’s blend too.

We have some great rescue dogs who aren’t finding homes quickly for various reasons like they’re older (Rufus), ugly (Beautiful Belle), old and not in good physical shape (Molsyn) or old, ugly and not in good physical shape (Puggles).

Then there are the ones who are just a little weird or unpredicatble who need strong owners/fosters to work them and lead them (Sophie & Girly). Others a prefect dogs but here too long like Tru, Smitty and soon Lindy. They are attractive, sought after dogs ‘types’ but just haven’t been ‘found’ by the right people yet.

We could also use homes with kids of all ages for the younger dogs to interact with, be played with by kids.

Fostering is ideally no more than 3-6 weeks, we give you the food, take care of any medicals. We ask that you treat the dog as a member of your family, take them out for good walks in areas there are other dog lovers and tell everyone they are avaialble for adoption – expose them to people – give out our cards with the website link to people. Also, it seems like a good luck charm when dogs are fostered – for some reason i immediately get apps for them! So the last requirement is that you bring the dogs for appts to meet prospective adopters, talk to those people, let them know how fantastic the dog is and all the good, annoying, joyful AND BAD things about the dog. Remember, we want adoptions to stick so honesty is key.

We DO get people offering to foster certain dogs, the ‘cute’ ones especially. These dogs don’t need to be fostered. They’re rarelyt here long enuf to leave an impression. It’s the ‘hard to adopt’ ones who need you or someone you know to love them for a little while.

It’s also fun if you have a dog or two already for YOUR dogs to have a new playmate and trust me when i say each extra dog is extra cost but waay less hassle than one dog – with fostering we’re eliminating the cost too!

If you know someone who recently lost a dog or an older friend, relative, neighbour who might need a dog to keep them company, we have them.

Please send the link http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html or this entire website link to anyone who might want to help

Thanks!

Su

Smitty, Hannah, Emma, Justin, Elliot and Topper all got homes!! All but Emma have been here a long time. Emma arrived last Thurs with Marlow, Lennie and Bogey who are here and SO CUTE!! Awesome dogs from Kingston Humane!

Please Check out the link http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html to see all the newly posted dogs who are arriving. All dogs b4 Remy are here already except Gwen and Pumpkin Pie – they arrive with the group on July 31st. From Remy to Peyton all are arriving August 5th. After Peyton to end are all arriving on July 31st so TELL EVERYONE!

Seems Canada Customs has decided they were losing money on these rescues and have now valued them at $300 each and are charging 5% GST and 8% PST on each dog.  These dogs were to be put down, no one wanted them and now they have ‘value’ to our gov’t.

It doesn’t matter that they only COST us money, that there is NO money made on them (after vetting in U.S. dollars – spay/neuter, shots, HW test, Lyme test, bortadella shot and then canadian $$ for deworming and de parasiting, HW prevention, kennel koff treatment, any illnesses that come up like our poor shroder who has an idiopathic pneumonia that has costed 3 weeks of antibiotics, xrays and tests to the tune of apprx $800 SO FAR and that is NOT including the money we paid to have him brought up here!

So what’re we going to do – same as everyone else I guess. The adoption donation goes up $50/dog to cover the cost. Yes we will argue everytime we go and try to avoid it but it’s at all th boarder crossings so we likely can’t do anything about it.

Boards are up – YAY! we still have fun with those and rescues are being adopted at a terrific rate to terrific people.

On Saturday the 18th at 9;30 we’re meeting with suzanne and her mom and maybe another person or two get some fundraisin stuff happening for sept. If anyone is interested in helping or taking part or offering ideas, please let me know.

BB reps and a buncha dogs will be marching in the pride parade today at 2pm – it’s televised too so watch it if you can’t make it!

We had a booth there once and it was a hoot!

It’s pretty crazy here with 18 dogs (oh, and two more arriving on sunday…) all in various stages of having been neutered or  spayed – who get to be out with whom, who needs to cool their jets more than they’d like… 18 dogs who don’t know their names since we just invented them (they did learn ‘Cookie’ pretty quick tho), are very fearful or traumatised, submissive pissers til you just want to SCREAM.

All of them exceptionally loving tho in spite of it all and coming to check you out or give a kiss even tho you’d rather be lying on the couch in an airconditioned livingroom – the same one inviting you from upstairs.

People of course coming & going to see dogs, pick up food, have to see the newbies or Satan #1 & Satan # 2 – aka Rollie & Pollie – who are facinated by the chaos and peeved not to be too included since they can see for themselves that there are a LOT of short dogs just like THEM to play with.

Sandra and John came and gave baths and picked off Ticks and brushed and brushed and brushed – unbeliveable the hair – birds are LOVING IT!! Sandra took pictures too so new ones shld be up tmo or mon or tues once sorted thru.

No other volunteers on the horizon for the next few days tho.

On the bright side – PENNY AND RUBY TUESDAY WERE ADOPTED TODAY AND OZZY MAY GO ON TUES!!

We’re trying to figure out how to add Bob & Madeline’s pictures of the transport to this post – may take a couple days.

Tru

All who will need homes so tell everyone!

Coming this aftrn is Denver, Belle, Joe, Charmin’ Charlie, Elliot, Tru, Violet, Wally, Stoop and Schroder – all from Mahoning and Jed, Ringo, Jenny, Jenx, Petey, Smitty, Ozzy, Octavia and Polly from Athens.

Arriving on Sunday (thank you again Ed) is Cocoa!

Thank you to Stuart and Ed for driving and new to helping us with transport is Bob & Madeline (they help with brushing & playing with the dogs and have made donations to the vets b4 but this is their first road trip!).

So updated photos and bios of the dogs shld be on the site http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html by sunday & monday but hopefully lots will be adopted!

Please don’t forget the dogs who are STILL HERE – CHLOE, SALLY, HOSS, BEANIE, CLAUDIA, JOEY, RUBY, Topper, JACK, Zak, JUSTIN AND HUBERT!! these dogs have been here 3 WEEKS now – we know them well and they are super well behaved, loving dogs!! Please help us find homes for them! Also the 2 PUPPIES – ROLLIE & POLLIE (aka satan 1 & satan 2) are STILL HERE!! they’ve had their first shots on tues and they are 8 WEEKS OLD TODAY!

Adopted – Hannah and Mickey this week!

Well we got Ray neutered yesterday and he sailed thru the surgery and is pretty much back to normal.

We have an appt on july 10th with an opthamologist to look at his cataracts and help us decide about surgery.

We are now seriously fundraising (no we don’t know how to go about it) and are hoping for some help.

We obviously have space for a good party with vendors too.

The appt with the opthamologist will cost in the $300 range and that’s just to decide if it’s worth it to do the testing to find out if it’s worth it to do the cataract surgery. Testing i think is in the $500 range and actual surgery is in the $3500 range.

I have a call into that vet (East Oshawa Clinic where she works out of on alternate fridays – pls DON’T start calling there. We haven’t even met them yet) – to find out exact costs and will keep you posted.

If you’d like to help us make a fundraising party or donate either thru Paypal on the site http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html (they do take a fee for this service) or calling us with a visa or M/C  OR once we know what the costs will be by committing to the vet clinic an amt towards the bill. Pug Angels (link is at bottom of page) is thinking of sponsoring him too.

If the surgery is more cost than value (he does really well as is but he has 4-5 good years left and shouldn’t have to be handicapped for them) we won’t do it.

Any funds collected would go to future ‘hard to adopt out dogs’ with problems due to age or imfirmity.

Someone’s puppy Toffee was taken from the side of the road even tho the person was told the dog is not stray and where he lived.

We sent out an email asking people in durham region & gta to watch out for him as i fugued he’s be dumped pretty quickly since the person who owned him said he wasn’t housebroken and chewed fingers and feet.

Sure enuf he was found on the THS website and he is now home with his family

We have a story coming on CVD (Surviving Canine Vestibular Disease - A journal of recovery) by one of our readers, Artemio,  probably tmo.

We’ve also been asked to start a discussion group on food  and also one for adoptors of our dogs to compare notes, trade stroies, ideas, training tips. Lucy’s M0m has offered to moderate that one so we’ll figure out how to do it.

If people have other ideas or comments, lets see what we can do here.

We’re gonna do the Facebook thing soon too.

We can no longer get lotsa grocery bags to give you for food purchases as everyone is charging a nickly a bag. Please bring your own shopping bags for small orders from now on. We did buy a box of bags but like everyone else it’s a nickle a bag.

large orders – we have plenty of boxes that the chicken comes in so no worried there.

We are lower priced than any other GOOD food, we’re also the best, and to stay that way you have to help keep the costs DOWN or we have to pass the costs on.

Those on buckets – please stop forgetting them. It’s a $10 PER bucket deposit

OTHER NEWS:

we’re working on getting 20 dogs here on the 26th – yes rescues ) so watch the site to see all the new dogs.