15 MORE DAYS UNTIL RACE DAY!
Saturday October 18th is DDR’s BIG DAY, it’s Race for the Rescues Day at the Pasadena Rose bowl. This event is DDR’s biggest fundraiser and with only 15 days left to raise $30,000, we haven’t hit the 50% mark yet. Can you help us help dogs like Honey. We rescued 14 year old Honey from the East Valley Shelter.
What chance would 12 year old Red, a former South LA Shelter dog, have had finding a home had we not rescued him?
Your support helps us continue to rescue shelter dogs who truly deserve a second chance. JOIN OUR TEAM and run walk with your dog. If you can’t make race day, donate $50 and sponsor a DDR volunteer to come out to the race with an adoptable DDR dog. Every donation helps us get closer to our goal! We look forward to seeing you and your dog on race day! http://www.racefortherescues.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=5222
PITStop SUPPORTS COMMUNITY BUSINESS: SKATE CAFE’
Editors Note: Crushow Herring is a friend of Downtown Dog Rescue and a Pit Bull advocate
Skate Cafe’ in downtown Los Angeles is more than a Skateboard Shop!
The story is that skateboarding was probably born sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, when surfers in California wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. Now, reports reveal there’s more than 18.5 million recorded skateboarders in the world, but this radio broadcast will be about more than skateboarding.
The story is that skateboarding was probably born sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, when surfers in California wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. Now, reports reveal there’s more than 18.5 million recorded skateboarders in the world, but this radio broadcast will be about more than skateboarding.
Skate Cafe’ and the guys involved are about providing a refuge for those appreciating the art of skateboarding; a place for expressive artists to congregate; and a refuge for young creative minds to communicate and celebrate their diversity. Last, but not least, Skate Cafe’ is a site where two distinctly different communities — loft-dwelling, upscale, downtown residents and visitors conjoin with Skidrow eclectic and artistic minds, to shop, converse and have free coffee/tea (hence, the name Skate Café).
The founders of Skate Café are professional skater Cato Williams, skater David Nussman and Soulful Commandoe designer Nicholas Mayfield. Professional athlete, Crushow Herring (artist and Skidrow activist) is collaborating with the Café, bringing artist and community programs to the shop.
The Café is complete with exclusive skateboards, custom T-shirts, personalized tennis shoes, art supplies, and shelves of books on street art, while also offering wireless Internet and more.
Find out more about the Skate Café in a featured article in the Los Angeles Downtown News (May 14, 2010)
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ACTIVATE: We’ve come to take your dog away! What is BSL (Breed Specific Legislation)? A Better Name? Breed Discriminatory Legislation!
by Irene Soriano Brightman
COOKIE!
Think of this…you raise this beautiful pit bull from puphood to full adulthood and spend countless hours filled with wonderful companionship, trips, tragedies and other life changing events. Pit Bull and Guardian live happily ever after, right?
San Francisco, Santa Monica, Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, Point Hueneme
Here in Los Angeles, it would seem to be the natural progression to be able to raise your pitbull or other power breeds to a ripe old age. That is NOT the case for many dog guardians of this misunderstood and maligned breed in the United States. To me, when I hear of states that have passed BSL (Breed Specific Legislation), they all seem like some faraway lands I hope to never visit. But it is a reality and I know that many DDR friends and family have connections to many of the states that have these types of horrible legislation in place! Florida has one in the works! Denver has had BSL laws in place for over 20 years! Read Stephanie Ernst’s (from Change.org) article at Denver’s problematic “profiling” and murder of pitbulls in
The Killing of the Misunderstood 3,500: Denver’s Pit Bull BanWhen I looked up
BSL in California , here are the cities listed:San Francisco, Santa Monica, Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, Point Hueneme
Apparently an ordinance was in effect in Santa Monica, California, before the state prohibited breed-based laws:
4.04.410 Vicious dogs.
(a) No person owning or harboring any pit bull or any other dog subject to this Section pursuant to subdivision (b) shall within the limits of the City allow or permit such dog, whether licensed or not, to be upon the public streets, public sidewalks, public parks, or any other public place within the City, or upon any private property which is not fully enclosed by fence or other barrier, except when muzzled and held under leash by an able bodied person.
(b) This Section shall apply to any dog for which the Animal Control Officer has issued, based upon the vicious or predatory nature of the dog, a written notice to the person owning or harboring such dog to keep the dog muzzled and leashed in accordance with this Section.
(c) For purposes of this Section, “pit bull” means any pit bull terrier of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, or American Pit Bull Terrier breed of dog or any mixed breed of dog which contains as an element of its breeding the breed of Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, or American Pit Bull Terrier as to be identified as partially of the breed of Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, or American Pit Bull Terrier. (Former section 4.04.410 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code.)
I’m just glad that bad dream is over but of course those […]