PETCO – Downtown Dog Rescue

DDR ADOPTION EVENT! New Location – PETCO – San Gabriel

Come meet KIWI, HAMSTER, MAJICK, THRILLER, all pictured here at our new location in the PETCO – San Gabriel Valley area! We’re right beside a TRADER JOE’s, so drop by, say hi, get some kisses and do your Trader Joe’s shopping after! What a nice way to spend Saturday early afternoon yes?

SATURDAY, April 23, 2011

11:00 AM – 2:30 PM

PETCO

7262 North Rosemead Boulevard

San Gabriel, CA 91775

See everyone there!

HAMSTER

Breed: American Pit Bull Terrier/American Pit Bull Terrier Mix

Color: Tan/Yellow/Fawn

Age: Young

Size: Large 61-100 lbs (28-45 kg)

Sex: Male

I am already neutered, housetrained, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and good with cats.

Hamster’s Story…

Hamster was rescued from the West LA shelter where he was originally adopted as a very young 8 week old puppy but returned a couple of months ago at one year old because he was too much dog for the family. He lived with small children, other dogs, even cats and did very well. Like most pit bull mixes, he is energetic and needs to be walked and exercised. He loves other dogs and could go to a dog park everyday, he would love it. He is still growing, weighing about 60lbs now, he knows basic obedience, is house trained, has been neutered, microchipped and is current on his vaccinations.

Please call Sandy at 818-407-4145 or e-mail Lori@modernica.net to set up an appt to meet Hamster.

KIWI

Breed: Jack Russell Terrier/Chihuahua Mix

Color: Tricolor (Tan/Brown & Black & White)

Age: Adult

Size: Small 25 lbs (11 kg) or less

DDR YOUTH MATTER: DDR Adoption Show Team Members: Katie & Carly Carrasco

The second installment of the DDR Youth Matter section of PITStop bring us two awesome sister siblings Carly: age 17, Senior (12th Grade) at San Dimas High School Katie: age 14, Freshman (9th Grade) at San Dimas High School!

They are part of our dedicated volunteer PETCO Show Team that come every Saturday to highlight our dogs to interested visitors! Having them there brings a youthful vibe that’s just plain fun for everyone involved! They are intelligent young women with definite opinions and viewpoints! Bravo!

We hope that they will continue to come back even when their school project is over!!!!! Thank you ladies for all your great work!

Carly & Katie

1)How did you hear about Downtown Dog Rescue?

Carly:I heard about Downtown Dog Rescue from our Dad, who first heard about this dog rescue from his parent’s neighbor, Celeste, a friend of Sandy’s (and her husband).

Katie: I heard about it from my sister Carly, who heard it from our Dad, who heard it from Celeste (a friend of Sandy and her husband).

2)What is this project you’re involved with and what is the purpose of the project? How long is the project supposed to run?

Carly:The project I am involved in is the San Dimas High School Senior Connection Project or SCP for short. The purpose of this project is unknown to me. I enjoy volunteering, but presenting it in front of a panel of teacher judges, and writing a research paper is a complete waist of my time. I started this project my Junior year of high school and it goes until May 26, 2010 (the day I present my project to the teachers).

Katie:The project I am involved in is the San Dimas High School Connection Project. There is not a specific purpose to this project. The project is going to run through my four years of high school.

Katie with Cosmo

3)What were your perceptions of pitbulls before volunteering […]

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

This Friday is all about the ladies — one of our pretty ladies will be thanking two lovely young ladies who help us with our DDR work!

And who is this pretty lady doing the honors? It’s ROXY!!!! Just as soon as we put up her information as being available for a forever home, a family snapped her up right away! Of course, we’re not surprised! She’s a sweet, beautiful girl!

HOORAY! She will now be in a lovely home!!!!! Roxy!!!
Here she is with the new fam!

So Roxy…ready to extend our thanks to your human counterparts?
READY! GO!!!!!

On behalf of DDR, I would like to thank two girls who have been faithfully present every Saturday to help do adoptions and watch over us at PETCO as part of a school project that they have to complete. They’re sisters!

Carly and Katie! Thank you, you two!!!!!

We love that both of you have chosen Downtown Dog Rescue as your community project…it only makes it better for us to be around good energy! You are always welcome to drop by again even when your project is done!

Watch out next Tuesday, when PITStop does a DDR YOUTH MATTERS feature on them both!

Ok Roxy —- great job, go run to your new family and live a wonderful, new life! Thanks Carly and Katie! We at DDR are thankful for your presence and dedication!

Ok everyone! See you all next week!
Helping Downtown Dogs one dog at a time
WITH YOUR HELP!
SI! SE PUEDE!

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

A lot of adoptions in the last couple of weeks! YAY!

That in itself is enough to give thanks!

So who will do the top honors this week?

Well we got 2 sweeties adopted this week

BUBBLES

RICKIE LEE

So, are the thanking duo ready!!!!????

Bubbles and Rickie Lee from DDR this week wanted to thank the “institutions” that help us with our adoptions.

We want to thank PETCO PASADENA-SOUTH

(according to their website)

for being the wonderful hosts every Saturday

for our DDR doggies from 11-2 pm!

With out this location, well…how are people
going to see us and adopt us!!!!

PETCO STAFF SANTA with Cookie and China Christmas 2009!

So YAY from all the DDR dogs again for PETCO!!!!

Thank you Ms. Store Manager MEGAN and all the staff every weekend that say hi to our dogs and provide a welcome space for us.

Ok trio of happiness — good luck in your new homes!!!!!

You will all be missed but we all know you will be loved dearly
in your new lives ahead!

And everyone — till next week!

We’re helping Downtown Dogs, one dog at a time with YOUR help!

DDR DOG SPOTLIGHT(s): COME SAY HELLO TO US AT ADOPTION THIS SATURDAY! 2/27/10

Hi everyone! This is Rickie Lee and Travis — we’re both DDR dogs asked to introduce and push our co-DDR buddies to the PITStop public! We will ALL be at adoption this Saturday at the PETCO Pasadena.

Please come visit us! We love to get pets and hugs and we’ll give you great kisses in return!

RICKIE LEE

TRAVIS (I’m Deb’s Dog of the Week!)

Here we go!

AMANDA

Amanda is 4-5 year old and is about 35 lbs. She is spayed and current on all vaccinations. She is a very petite and friendly pit bull terrier. She has had a very hard life. Her original owner, a taxi driver, lost his home, and he had no choice but to keep her in his taxi and drive her around with the passengers he picked up. This worked until someone complained to the cab company. He found a neighbor in Compton with a yard who already had 15 dogs on her property. This was ok for a few weeks until Animal Control mandated that she get rid of 12 dogs, Amanda being one of the dogs. Off she went to a poorly run kennel where she was warehoused in a tiny crate with hardly any food and dirty water. She was attacked by other dogs at this facility and as a result, suffered bite wounds to her face and muzzle. She is definitely not a fighter but had to fight for food and water at this kennel. But don’t worry, Amanda is sweet sweet sweet and she did not let this bad place change the lovely personality that she has. Animal Control began investigate the kennel and they were mandated to reduce their numbers; this is where Downtown Dog Rescue came in. Amanda was rescued because she had no chance of a good life if we didn’t take her. Emaciated, full of fleas, a bad eye that is still being treated, she is so grateful to have food, water, a blanket and a dog house every night to sleep in. Slowly, we are teaching her to walk on a leash and allowing her to enjoy her time with our dog pack. Please consider adopting or even fostering to adopt sweet Amanda who has been to hell and back.

Amanda is up-to-date with routine shots, house trained and spayed/neutered.

ASKIM

FRIDAY SHOUT OUTS – Giving Thanks!

The previous week was full of activity for DDR! Helping out the 61st Street Kennel dogs was on everyone’s mind. This venture had a happy ending – dogs were transported, bathed, shown, fostered and adopted! We couldnt do it all without the help of many, many people!

So, our newly adopted pup CHOCOLATE!!!!!! will do the honors this week!

Chocolate would like to extend a special thanks to Linda Hodges for the two wonderful PET BEDS she donated to DDR!

Special message from Lori Weise

Thank You to the Amanda Foundation, Retriever Rescue, Best Friends Animal Society, Heigl Foundation and Janet Cook from Angel’s Heart Dog Rescue and all of the foster people and adopters who came out last week to help us rescue 41 dogs out of the 61st Street kennel in a little over two weeks.

A monumental challenge for a small organization like Downtown Dog Rescue but we did it, with a lot of support from our volunteers and friends who came out to support us, transport, bathe, and take lots of dogs out to adoption.

We would like to extend a special thank you to Cornelius, “Dog Man” Austin who helped me assess over 30 dogs last Saturday at the 61st Street kennel.

SATURDAY ADOPTION CREW!

Thanks to Cheryl Seaberg Elliott for bringing donuts!

A special thanks to the transport/bathing crew:
Robin, Billy, Debbie, Giovanni, Christina, Linda & Cheryl

A special thanks to our Volunteer SHOW Team at PETCO:
Sandy Dragotis: Volunteer and Adoption Coordinator
Show Team: Lezle, Leyla, Teresa, Effie, Linda, Christina, Jill, Jill’s Friend, Cindy, Rachel! (Jill – please send us her name!!!)
Photographer: Kathryn Hall and baby Hall!

LORI’S CORNER: Super Adoption was a Super Saturday!

On Saturday, we brought out a lot of dogs that we had rescued from a kennel that was closing. The owner of the kennel had asked for help in placing close to 100 dogs before they had to move all the dogs to some not so terrific places. Sandy organized the volunteers to come out to Petco where we had every breed except pit bulls this past Saturday. Many of the 40 + dogs that we have rescued from this facility have been placed in breed rescues, in foster homes and a few in forever homes. We still have lots of dogs that need foster and forever homes including one special old shepherd who is about 12 years old. I want to thank the Amanda Foundation, Best Friends and the Heigl Foundation for helping Downtown Dog Rescue taking some of these dogs out of an over crowded situation. There still is a lot more work to do. The dogs that we did get out are all so grateful to be on the road to their forever homes! What a great team we had on Saturday, evaluating, transporting, bathing, and showing the dogs at Petco. A special thank you to everyone who showed up to foster a dog so that no dog had to go back to the kennel.

Beautiful Cassie who still needs a home

“Trouble” never game me one minute of trouble!
He is now in his forever home in Santa Monica.

Happy puppy and new family!