Adele, Janet & Timbit, Bob & MAdeline & Chase – all made donations to the Guildwood vet! Thank you

for donating so kindly to these dogs!

This little girl came with her mom to look at rescue dogs one day last June. They weren’t quite ready for a dog but Meara really liked Joey (who DID get a home a few weeks later with another girl).

I got an email from Meara’s mom a week or so ago telling me that for Meara’s birthday the last few years she’d been asking her friends to give money for a charity she chose INSTEAD OF GIFTS!! (This girl is 8 yrs old!! How many previous birthdays could she have done this!! She started YOUNG!!)

Last year she donated the money to the Liver Research Society because someone close to her had liver disease.

THIS YEAR she chose US as the charity, donating $275!! UNBELIVEABLE!! She said she liked what we did for dogs like Joey and all the other ones too.

Last Monday she came with her mom, sisiter and brother to present us with the money and bring a new dog toy (which Cammie promptly grabbed and ran off with it)  and play with some of the dogs. She was sad not to see Joey but glad he had a home with another little girl.

This little girl kind of knocked my socks off – I keep telling people $1 or $5 helps and if this little girl cares enough about dogs she doesn’t even own and a place she barely knows MAYBE there are OTHER LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS out there who’s want to do the same thing on THEIR birthdays this year?

A challenge perhaps to all the little kids who’ve come here to see dogs or adopted dogs or wanted to adopt a dog. If YOUR dog was blessed to have you in their lives, maybe it’s time to help other dogs NOT YET SO FORTUNATE?

Dogs who come here are USUALLY fairly easy to adopt out but i have to be careful to pick dogs who HOPEFULLY won’t get sick here or be a drain on resources precluding other dogs from being saved.  Many of my dogs are from KILL SHELTERS, REALLY THEY ARE PUT DOWN if the pound is over crowded, if it’s a puppy or a pregnant dog it goes first.

Every day i see great dogs begging for a place to be safe and help find a new home. Lots of you think I’m nuts for having 40 dogs at a time or taking 20 in at once. Aside from the work – IT’S A LOT OF WORK – and food, i can handle that.

What i can’t handle without help is the Ray’s who need testing and maybe eye surgery, the Gwens who eat their stitches and cost me almost $600 to re stitich  - Schroder getting pneumonia to the tune of almost $1000. Jelly Bean too. Louie was adopted last monday and while i thought he had kennel koff it did, within 24 hours of adoption, turn into a fungal pneumonia!! He also has heart worm (the test was a false negative – the 2nd one in 5 years) - unforseeable stuff like that - THOSE dogs absolutely financially KILL me – i Have $305. o/s at Orono Vet 905-983-9010 and $4900 o/s at Guildwood Animal Clinic 416 -265-5000 if anyone wants to call in a visa or Master card and pay off that $1 or $5 that add up quickly – buying Heartworm and Flea Prevention, antibioptics up the kazoo this month but usually just for kennel koff. I get 20% off on SERVICES and NOTHING OFF ON PRODUCTS AND PRODUCTS IS THE BULK OF WHAT I NEED THERE. I’d LOVE to help the new owners of Ray and especially Louie get the help they still need – KUDOS TO JENNIFER AND JEFF for keeping Louie and loving him IN SPITE Of the costs they are incurring and i can’t help with.

I need to rethink what i’m doing here – I can’t expect others to help when it’s my choice and my burden to do this rescue thing but i would be sad to not do it.

We ARE in the process of getting Charity Status (Thank you Bram Lecker for lawyering for us) so that would be tax recipts for financial help given  but at the moment i don’t have Sponsors or Angels out there helping and i am using all boarding income to cover rescues,  food etc (beleive me – the Adoption Donation covers NOTHING – each dog on average costs me $600-700 EACH).

So the challenge is – How many kids (or adults for that matter or even your dogs) want to use their birthdays to raise money for Camp LotsaDogs Rescue?  We can help the dogs no one would pick to help and especially take care of the ones we do pick and maybe help Jennifer with Louie and Julia who adopted Ray (now Ben by the way).

Occasionally i get requests from people over 60 to have a dog. Most of those people have been refused dogs by other rescues for being ‘too old’.

When they come to me, I DO direct them away from puppies and younger dogs, my fear being not so much that they can’t handle them – there are some ‘old’ people waaaay fitter than ME! – but that they will die before the dog.

I have been directing older people to dogs over 5 yrs old (depending on breed/longevity) who need homes as badly, if not more cuz people want puppies, but are awesome dogs who have a long life to love someone .

I was thinking that ALL OF YOU have older relatives and friends who you didn’t know were looking for a dog and may have been refused and never told you OR want a dog but know a puppy is more than they need or want and don’t know about PETFINDER or that there are rescue organizations ther than pounds OR that they don’t have to go into a shelter and feel horrible seeing the dogs there but can go on the internet too. Maybe they don’t know that there ARE OLDER DOGS WHO NEED THEM. Middle ages or LAZY people like me should apply for these guys TOO!

Dogs i have here needing older people to love them if other people don’t want them is:

COCOA, an 8-9 yr old female chocoolate lab, med size – she can live another 5-7 yrs, BELLE, a7-8 yr old female blk lab mix, large, can go another 5-7 yrs, OCTAVIA, 9-11 yr old chihua/terrier mix, female, 10lbs who is the NICEST small dog i’ve ever seen!! never bites or even lifts a lip, not a barker, good on her legs and loving!! she can go another 8 or so years!  POLLY PUGGLES 10 -12yr old pug mix, female, one back leg is gimpy but getting stronger now that she’s using it – seems she may have been crated her whole life (she & Octavia likely puppy mill breeding dogs) and she really chugqs along outside!! She SINGS like a kitten when she needs attention and ok, she is UGLY but E.T. was cute after two hours so she;’ll grow on you! she can go another 5-8 yrs. RAY - still here – 9-10 yr old blk lab, male, blind from cataracts not cancer or diabetes. Awesome dog who gets around darn good for his ‘disability’. He can go 4-6 more years too!

We will help anyone adopting these dogs with health and food advice to make them last as long as they should too!

Other ‘older’ dogs who need people – Joey, Hoss, Claudia - they’re all apprx 4-5 yrs old and have a good 10 yrs left (13 or so for the beagle) and they are calmer and loving and easier to have around – don’t need exceptional amts of exercise either!!

THis is all just thoughts but i’d really like to know what you think and if there is a market for older dogs and people and where the best place it to let seniors know we’re here with great dogs.

HAPPY CANADA DAY EVERYONE!

Well the new dogs were picked up yesterday and they are a great group – fav always are the Blue Tick Coonhounds and Rosie is a total babe. No tas shy as many of the coonhounds that come in but a pleasure who likes to curl up in my chair or crawl up for a snuggle.

Lance is a gentle angel and Lexi – we butted heads at first but mine is harder and she caved pretty quickly – so quickly she MAY have a home TMO!! Justin and Hubert are gorgeous dogs. Justin needed a little sorting ut manners-wise with the others and is doing great. Hubert is qan oaf and very funny and happy go lucky. Ruby Ruby Ruby – definitely a 10-14 mo old female blk lab mix – now that she’s tired out tho she is much easier to have around.

Our Wyleigh got a home today in Kingston with Joanna & Tim – we’re all very excited for her!

Again, Sandra and John came too give baths, brush and take pics – thank you!

Rory is doing his community service hours for school and is doing a great job too!

Stephen & JJ came to visit, pick up food and as always Stephen gave a little extra to the rescues – thank you guys!

I posted yesterday the people who recently donated money to us but i didn’t talk about those who donate TIME!! that is an aweful oversite cuz time IS money and is very, very valuable.

Sandra & John who came one day and bathed 11 (ELEVEN) dogs in one day AND took pics of them looking a heck of a lot better for me to post on the site and who come most weeks to take new pics or bathe and BRUSH OUT and pull – gag me with a spoon here – TICKS off the dogs without barfing themselves!! Give me a cockroach any day over a tick – YUK!

to Bob and Maddy for paying some to the vet but Bob who came and tossed balls for the dogs and brushed them out too.

There are actually a LOT of you who donated time and money to us and while i never mentioned you before i will make a effort to ‘blog you in here’ as you deserve recognition for helping.

Thank you to Pat who donated $100 to us ‘in memory of Chili Maloney” and Kathy who donated $50 to us as well ‘just because’ to our rescue dogs. These kind ladies work for our insurance broker and how many of YOU get money BACK from INSURANCE companies?? ))

Also, thank you to Bob & Maddy who donated $100 directly to one of our great vets for the rescues – Guildwood Animal clinic.  Anyone can call our vets, guildwood is 416-265-5000 and Or0no vet 905-983-9010. They all have balances and credits sure won’t hurt for future rescues.

See our rescues http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html 12 new one arriving june the 12th!