LORI’S CORNER: Compton Dog Owners Are Thankful For Our Free Clinic
While everyone else was getting ready for a big Thanksgiving shopping weekend, the volunteers at Downtown Dog rescue and our mobile clinic team Angel Dogs Foundation were getting ready to spay/neuter a lot of dogs at East Rancho Dominguez Park. When I scheduled the clinic date I had second thoughts, what if no one shows up because of the holiday! I was really wrong! What was I thinking? We had two back to back crazy busy days where once again, we could not service all the dog owners who wanted the free service. We also had a lot of pit bull owners that I’m happy to report, none were turned away due to lack of space or aggression, all were done! Including a couple dogs that needed to be tranquilized in their owners’ cars, what a great team of techs and a great vet!
We spayed/neutered a total of 67 dogs in a grand total of 24 hours, two back to back 12 hour days, in the freezing cold! At the end of each day, the dog owners were so thankful for the free service, including one woman who told me that she had survived cancer, was on disability and had just moved back to Compton to live with her mom who is a senior on a fixed income. Their little terrier means so much to them, they love her but they could not afford to vaccinate or spay her. They had seen our ad in the Pennysaver and like everyone else, out of work, on General Relief, Social Security, underemployed, they appreciate the fact that we were there for their pets.
We will be back in the park to finish up our year of monthly Compton Community Dog Clinics on December 11th, surpassing our original goal of 688 dogs! We estimate that we will perform over 700 spay/neuter surgeries for the dog owners in the Compton Community.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! DDR is pardoning the TURKEY this year!
We at DDR are thankful for everyone’s support throughout the year!
Saving lives and improving the quality of life of both humans and dogs
has always been our priority.
Our volunteers, supporters, donors and friends
have made it all possible!
Thank You!
In keeping with the positive emphasis on life and light,
we will pardon the “Turkey” and just let him or her “be.”
The party and cheer go on with TOFURKEY and wonderful side dishes!!!!!
SOUTH LA DOG SPOTLIGHT: PRONOUNCED DEAD SAT. SCHEDULED TO DIE YESTERDAY. WANTS TO LIVE TODAY. 10-year-old super sweet GS A1168948 South L.A.
PRONOUNCED DEAD ON SATURDAY
SCHEDULED TO DIE YESTERDAY. “WHO ME? NO!!!!!!!!”
WANTS TO LIVE AND BE LOVED EVERY DAY
Watch Chewy’s video and see this gentle but camera-shy girl :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0LvlHwQZWk
I was at the shelter the day that Chewy (what a name — A1168948, 10 years old) was walked in by her owners who said she was “a good dog” but that they were moving. I was in the kennels shortly afterward, Chewy standing in her cage alone, puzzled at the bars surrounding her. And I was there the day that a Community Service worker found her, upside down, legs in the air, eyes open — and pronounced her dead. Lucky for Chewy that this was a mistake!!!! Chewy just sleeps on her back with her legs in the air, propped up against the kennel walls — she prefers it that way. As an older dog with an older hematoma to her ear (and now an ear infection as well! — but on antibiotics, no surgery necessary) and no one clamoring to take her home, Chewy was scheduled to be euthanized yesterday. But, Chewy has no intention of dying.
She’s bouncy on her walks, she’s loving with people, and she even enjoys sharing a space with her new kennel mate. She’s a good-natured, huggable hunk of fluff — a sugary sweetheart who shouldn’t have to be pronounced dead in the shelter. She’s thankful that she is making it to Thanksgiving — but will be even more thankful if you will take her home and let her live happily ever after — and sleep upside down.
Please, please have compassion
for these older dogs.
Call the South L.A. shelter at (213) 485-0117 or (213) 485-0119.
And kindly let us know that she is showing you that beautiful smile.
With thanks,
LORI’S CORNER: ACRES OF LAND DONT ALWAYS MEAN HAPPINESS FOR DOGS
Over the years, I’ve heard this phrase so many times, “I wish that I had lots of acres of land so that I could rescue a bunch of dogs and let them run free!” Sounds nice, but the reality is that sometimes, people who acquire a lot of land have other people dump dogs on their property, what’s one more dog which leads to ten more dogs, which leads to over one hundred dogs on a property that are not being property cared for.
A group of rescues, including Downtown Dog Rescue, are working together to take over 70 dogs off a property in the desert where they are living in makeshift runs without much shelter. The nights are extremely cold and it will be snowing there soon. Our goal is to rescue the dogs that are social with people and other dogs and there are a lot of them who need forever homes.
A couple of weeks ago, we helped raise enough money to bring Angel Dogs Foundation in to do 28 spay/neuter surgeries. The good news was that most of the dogs were already spayed/neutered but not every dog was done. There are still some feral dogs that are free roaming that need to be done before more litters of puppies are born. The day the mobile clinic went out, three new litters had been born that week.
We need a lot of help to help these dogs. We need experienced foster homes, people to transport dogs back to the Los Angeles area, volunteers to go out to the kennel to spend time with the dogs and cleaning kennels. Most of the dogs get very little human interaction since there are just too many dogs on the property. Most of these dogs were someone’s pet at some point in their lives, they are miserable waiting for someone to rescue them.
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boxer mix F 45/50 5 years friendly/timid
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Black lab mix – F 70 pounds five years very friendly
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Golden Sharpei mix M 70 pounds five years very friendly
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