DDR Friday Shout Outs – Downtown Dog Rescue

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks! WE’RE BACK!!!!!!

We’ve been away for a couple of weeks BUT WE’RE BACK!!!

And ready to make Friday the sweet

Thank You Fridays DDR friends and volunteers enjoy!

We want to give a big thank you to ALL the participants

that joined the BEST FRIENDS STRUT YOUR MUTT

walk that happened in Santa Monica.

TEAM CLANCY ROCKED!!

WHO WANTS TO DO THE HONORS!!!!????

WELL IT’S OUR RESIDENT PRETTY PUP, SHERRY

Who no longer lives in the DDR Kennels because she has been adopted!!!!

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Here she is in her new Dada’s arms!!!!!

AND HER NEW NAME IS MIA!!!!!!

YAY!!!!! Ok Mia, get off the couch and let’s thank

our generous DDR friends and family!!!

Ok, on behalf of DDR I would like to

thank a bunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnch of folks!

MIA resting at STRUT YOUR MUTT!!!

Here is the official roster of those that walked

AND helped raise money for DDR and South LA dogs!

Irene Soriano Brightman (Co-Captain)

David Arranaga

Puppy Mill Awareness

Melanie Begian

jennifer berent

Mirja Bishop

Wendy Blanda

Miriam Brock

Linda Bruce

Nick Carranza

Effie Chang

Debbie Chao

Nadine Donat

John Drouillard

Natalie Drouillard

Jessica Endaya

Debbie Fan

Brittany Fulgoni

Ricardo Galindo

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

For this Friday shout out! We are giving super thank you’s to

our STRUT YOUR MUTT Sponsors!!!!!!

This is the roll call of the wonderful people

that have donated towards

Downtown Dog Rescue TEAM CLANCY & TEAM SENIORS walkers!!!

HOORAY!!!!! More South LA dogs will be

rescued in the coming months!

Thank you for supporting our first and second responders

and making sure we reach our weekly goals:

Again, Team Clancy dog pack leader, Clancy and Lori do the honors!

SPECIAL

THANK YOU’S GO OUT TO:

Sponsoring Debbie Fan

TEAM CLANCY

Sarah Owings

Sponsoring Ivania Revuelta

TEAM CLANCY

Jennifer Wold

Annie Pastina

Mike Grawer

Katie Carmody & Mario

Sponsoring Lindsey Rueff

Katie Tilden

Sponsoring Teresa Schmidt

TEAM CLANCY

Susan Schmidt

Sponsoring Irene Soriano Brightman

TEAM SENIORS

Ann Chau

Gladys Nubla

Christina Tam

Robin Skov

Sponsoring Tammy Weaver

TEAM CLANCY

Andrea Petray

Kevin Weaver

Sponsoring Lori Weise

TEAM CLANCY

Robin Skov

If you are interested in joining our DOG PACK-TEAM CLANCY,

and walking with your dog OR just sponsoring another member,

click on the link below

http://bestfriends.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&eventID=501&teamID=5007

EVENT DATE: Sunday, September 19, 2010

Santa Monica Pier

1 mile walk

8:30 start time

Pet Festival at the pier after the walk

It will be a great day at the Pier!!!!!

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO BIRTHDAY DONORS

FROM DDR Volunteer ROBIN SKOV

(aka mama to DDR alum AVA) AVA

A huge thank you to all my fab friends and family who donated to Downtown Dog Rescue’s Operation Safety Net program for my birthday! My goal was not only met, it was doubled!! Woo-hoo!! Thank you, thank you, thank you on behalf of all the animals you have helped through this awesome program!

Katherine Ruffner

Tracy Jagger

Beth Quimby

Laura Menck

Lisa Blau

Deborah Johnson

Sharon S Skov Key

Jessica Cliver

Bark & Purr Alliance Fund

Thomas Symczak

Paul Dirmeyer

Ruben Valencia

Mandy Miers LaPuma

Cecilia Castro

Carole Boswell

Lisa Dulyea

Helping Robin give thanks is our OPERATION SAFETY NET pittie mascot, SIMON!

Hello everyone, I’m Simon!

Thank you so much for raising $400 for DDR

through Robin’s Birthday wish!!!!

We were so excited to get the news!!!!!!

Here is our latest OPERATION SAFETY NET success story

as told by

my rescuer and founder of DDR, Lori Weise!

TASHA AND SHEBA

Tasha has lived on Skid Row since 1998. She has always known Sheba but recently became her official owner after her last owner picked dope over his dog. Every night, Tasha would dress Sheba up in her pajamas, keeping her warm and comfortable, especially now that she has slight hip problems.

Sheba getting ready for bed in Skid Row

They go everywhere together, everyday until someone accused Sheba of biting them and Animal Control took her away two weeks ago. Tasha lost all, hope did not contact me and I couldn’t find her. Central City East Security Team and Downtown Dog Rescue worked together to locate Tasha, set up a time and date to pick her up and go get her baby. The day was today at […]

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

It’s our favorite day of the week! FRIDAY where we give thanks to those of you who support the work we do at Downtown Dog Rescue!!!!

Helping us give thanks this week is one of the dogs that was rescued from the Southgate 67 animal cruelty case.

While Downtown Dog Rescue was not the one who adopted her out, we were one of the team cheerleaders for Roxy working hard to help her find and get her to her forever home and you know what?

She has!!!!!

Here’s Roxy hanging out at the DDR kennels one afternoon!

And here’s Roxy with her new family!!!!

Awww HAPPY DOG!

So Roxy — ready to help us out?

On behalf of my DDR, I would like to help them thank the following first responders for pledging their $30 to walk in this year’s STRUT YOUR MUTT at the Santa Monica Pier on September 19, 2010 at 8:30 AM. They all responded to Clancy’s call to walk with him and raise more money to save more South LA dogs dumped at the South LA shelter.

Melanie Begian

Wendy Blanda

Linda Bruce

Mia Gyzander

Judith Lewis Mernit

Teri Mascola

Dorene Perkins

Mark Perkins

Teresa Schmidt

Veronica Selco

Leigh Spader

Erika Szentgroti

Mark Tipton

Lisa Tipton

THANK YOU! & Hooray!!!!

I would also like to thank UCLA Department of English Professor Maximillian Novak through Staff person, Rick Fagin for donating to Downtown Dog […]

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

After a short break, FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS is back with more thank you’s to give!

We would like to thank the awesome FOUND ANIMALS FOUNDATION for their sponsorship of the cost of vaccines for our JUNE Compton Spay/Neuter Clinics. Their sponsorship is crucial to keeping pets protected and keeping our costs down and so we are really happy that they’ve stepped up and chose to sponsor our clinic.

Well, that’s it for this week!
We’re rescuing dogs, one dog at a time!!!
With YOUR help!!!
See everyone next week!!!!!

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

This Friday is a big Friday coz we’re thanking a whole bunch of awesome volunteers! Last weekend, DDR hosted our first ever Annual Pet Fair in the City of Compton!

It was fun and volunteers came out to make it one of our funnest events ever!

We know in DDR that we are nothing without our mover and shaker volunteers!!!!

Who’s more than happy to do the honors this week? It’s our dear CHLOE!!! She got adopted!!!!! Yay! So many of us at DDR and our partner rescue The Dawg Squad

were rooting for this pretty girl! And her dreams have come true! Here she is posing at the DDR Kennels wondering when it was going to be her turn to go home:

And lo and behold!!! Here she is with her new sibling Kylo in her new home!!!!!

Get up from your nap Chloe — we got thankings to do!!!

Ok—on behalf of DDR, I would like to thank my sibling Kylo and my new pack leaders, Brian and Bonnie for taking me into their home! Life’s good and I love my new purple polka-dot collar.

Next is Ms. Lori’s huge enormous thanks to all the volunteers that came out for the Pet Fair:

There’s Josie and the B.A.R.K. crew The kids loved spending time with all of you, the therapy dogs, Fran and Pogo!

We had a […]

THANK YOU FRIDAYS – Memorial for PuppyMill Mama’s

We want to take this opportunity to do a special memorial for special Mama’s in the dog rescue world…. the Puppymill mama dog’s and the backyard breeder doggy mama’s. We would like to recognize Andrea Braver, South LA shelter volunteer and the Best Friends “Puppies Aren’t Products: Los Angeles” team.

To do the honors is one of our Mama Pit’s PRECIOUS still waiting for her forever home!

First a moment of silence for all the puppy mill Mama’s that never had the chance to leave the puppymill or end up euthanized at our shelters after being tossed as unprofitable by a backyard breeder.

Precious? Are we ready?

On behalf of DDR, I would like to thank Ms. Andrea Braver, premier volunteer for the South LA Shelter for always watching out for Mamma Pits like me. She has always been very sympathetic everytime a Mamma Pit who’s ready to give birth or just recently gave birth comes into the South LA Animal Care Center and we thank her for that. Many a time, the puppies get adopted out right away BUT us Mamma Pits are most of the time left behind. So Ms. Braver, thank you so much for sending pleas on our behalf, checking on us and making sure that we are comfortable and attended to.

Ms. Andrea with Mama Pit Cecily (ADOPTED!)

We also want to recognize the work of Best Friends “Puppies Aren’t Products: Los Angeles.” It takes a whole team of wonderful people to run this program and spread the word about the awful puppymills and the stores that use them. Thank you to the awesome team doing the great work:

Jennifer Krause, Campaign Specialist, Best Friends LA
Lindsay Reeves, Sherman Oaks Team Leader
Deborah Johnson,Sherman Oaks Team Leader
Tina Clark, Glendale Team Leader
Kari Hartkorn,Brea Team Leader

Every month they hold Anti-Puppy Mill/Pro-adoption peaceful demonstrations in PuppyMill using STORES like BARKWORKS (Westside Pavilion) and PUPPY AND ME (Sherman Oaks). Please attend their peaceful demonstrations sometime soon (To volunteer, email: kimw@bestfriends.org

Please remember that many mama dogs are left in dirty kennels, are unhealthy and live in very bad conditions back in the puppymill and when this horrible practice disappears, we mama dogs will also be relieved of our suffering. For us backyard breeding mamas, we […]

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

We got a bit of thanking to very special DDR friends/supporters this week!
And we have an extra special sweetheart to do the honors —

Raising money for rescue work is a big challenge for small rescue’s like Downtown Dog Rescue. Coordinating an army of volunteers with volunteer coordinator, Sandy to help with events, errands and countless other rescue related tasks, Lori’s time is majorly impacted and thinking up ways to raise the money needed to do ALL of it is just one more thing to add to an already full plate. This is why when we get donations/support/event proceeds out of the blue, Lori and I are super elated and thankful!!!!!!!

This week we want to thank David Minkin, Nicole Bruckman, Robin Skov and Page Miller for being the wonderful rescue friendly souls they are and including DDR in their work/existing projects. Many of the events donate their proceeds to DDR. We want to do a shout out to the following folks and it will be headed by no other than our 61st street kennel success story…Mr. Larry!!!!!

Larry got adopted today and he is one of the 61st Street Kennel hoarding case that really has won a lot of DDR volunteer hearts! Here was poor Larry at an over-crowded kennel in South LA, tied to a tree 24/7….

And here is this sweet, intelligent and wonderful Larry in his new home!

Ok resting on your own personal doggy bed and playing with chewies!
Larry has finally found his home — but wait, we want to ask one final request!

Larry, are you ready to thank everyone and give them that winning happy smile you now will permanently have? LARRY SAYS YES — ok Larry – flash the smile and give the thanks!

On behalf of DDR, I would like to first thank my new family Marshall and Courtney!!!! YAY!!!!! I’ve found my forever home!

Also, I would like to thank the following people whose support of DDR, will continue to make rescue work happen for other dogs like me…. so…..

NICOLE BRUCKMAN!

THANK YOU for involving DDR with your A MUTE OF HOUNDS EXHIBITION at MELTDOWN GALLERY! 20% of proceeds from artwork sold is really a big deal for us + setting up an adoption event at the Gallery and just really coming up with great satellite events that encourage donations […]

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