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BE IN THE KNOW: TAKE YOUR DOG TO WORK DAY! JUNE 26, 2010

is on JUNE 26, 2010

this year!

Tia

Kuna, ID

First celebrated in 1999, Take Your Dog To Work Day was created to celebrate the great companions dogs make and to encourage their adoption from humane societies, animal shelters and breed rescue clubs. This annual event asks pet lovers to celebrate the humane-canine bond and promote pet adoption by encouraging their employers to support TYDTWDay by opening their workplace to employees’ four-legged friends on this one special day.

GO FURRY to promote pet adoption on Friday, June 25

On Friday June 25, 2010, businesses, animal shelters and pet-care professionals from around the world will work together to better the lives of shelter dogs everywhere. Thousands of businesses will GO FURRY to promote pet adoption by opening their doors to employees’ furry, four-legged friends on this day in celebration of the great companions dogs make.

Pet Sitters International invites your business to GO FURRY to support homeless pets in your community:

*Register your support and download the 2010 action pack and Waggy Deals™ savings.

*Explore ideas for hosting a TYDTWDay celebration at your workplace.

*Read training tips to prepare your dog for his or her office debut.

We are asking every business–great and small–to become a true friend of the canine community by helping Pet Sitters International promote pet adoptions in a positive and proactive way! Explore our site to learn how you can participate, register your business and spread the word.

Ms. Piggy

Bethesda, MD

PITStop Community Assist: MOCA, PITBULL needs a new home

A Plea from Sal

Moca was a rescue dog, and now unfortunately we are losing our house and moving into an apartment, we have had her for over 2 years and now we are being forced to leave our home, our deadline is by July 12th to move out of our house and into the apartment. She is spayed and all her shots are current, she is a loving dog.

Please help.

Thank you.

sal.s.samour@gmail.com

PITStop SUPPORTS COMMUNITY ART MAKING: HUMBLE BEAUTY FREE SCREENING!

If you missed the screening of HUMBLE BEAUTY at last month’s HOPE AND FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL, this is your chance to catch a FREE screening!

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WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING: “RECOMMENDED” –Video Librarian, 2010, “Masterful film…A first-rate, profound documentary…encourages viewers to widen their world-view… 5 out of 5 STARS — FilmThreat.com, 2009.

DAMIEN’S RESCUE DIARY: #5 Damien Meets his new favorite dog and it’s an Oreo Cookie!

Damien had a very big week last week, he had his first adoption interview on Saturday morning and on Sunday he met his new favorite dessert, a little pit bull mix named Oreo Cookie. Of the two activities, Oreo has been his new obsession. They run together, roll in the saw dust, bite each other’s legs, nonstop action with the help of Pepper, Medira, Edwina, his former favorite and Sunshine. He can take or leave Curtis and Bruno alone and Precious still won’t give him the time of day because she is far too busy playing with Clancy.

On Saturday, Damien met Junie a young pit bull that was rescued by a nice young couple from the North Central Shelter back in March. They are looking for a playmate for their girl but don’t want another HIGH ENERGY dog like Junie. Damien, in my eyes, was the perfect match. They played and chased each other but Damien quickly was tired and laid down frog style panting. They went home to think about Damien and we haven’t heard back from them yet but we are hopeful. Even if it doesn’t work out, it was a good first interview and two hours of playing and questions went extremely well!

There is so much work involved in preparing and showing a dog that is rescued. As we always tell each other at adoptions, the rescuing of the dog off the street is probably the easiest part. It’s the countless hours of care, exercise and adoptions for often months that takes true dedication. I want to thank all of the volunteers who take Damien and some of the other DDR dogs out every Saturday to Petco to show them for adoption, often leaving without any applications or so much as an interest in any of the dogs. Regardless, the dogs and I appreciate your time and effort.

Another good week for Damien who has a permanent smile on his face, if you believe that dogs smile. I sure do when I look at Damien and Oreo Cookie play!

DONORS AND PARTNERS SPOTLIGHT: Bernadette Peter’s Children’s Book STELLA IS A STAR by BLUE APPLE BOOKS

by Irene Soriano Brightman

When Downtown Dog Rescue founder Lori Weise, put out a call for used Children’s books to distribute to children attending the 1st ever Compton Pet Fair that happened two weeks ago, I remembered right away a Facebook posting from one of my animal rescue friends of Broadway/Screen star and animal Welfare veteran and Broadway Barks co-founder, Bernadette Peter’s latest book project called STELLA IS A STAR!

Bernadette Peter’s own pitbull, Stella!

I thought, it would be great to be able to give the children that were coming to the the PET FAIR this new book about a dog and more specifically about pitbulls that had a positive message about the breed and a wonderful story about developing one’s positive self-image! I knew right away I would need to contact the publisher and get them involved with the Spay/Neuter clinic!

About the book (write-up from Chronicle Books):

Stella Is a Star! — Bernadette Peters and Liz Murphy—the terrific team behind the New York Times best-selling Broadway Barks—are back with a story about Stella, a pup who would rather be a graceful pig ballerina than what she really is: a dog no one seems to like.

Bernadette Peters’ lovable Stella learns the lessons of self-acceptance, following her heart’s desires and, most important, that it’s okay just to be herself. The book includes a CD with an original song written and performed by Bernadette Peters.

Bernadette Peters has led a dazzling career on Broadway and in theaters and concert halls around the world, playing such memorable roles as the witch in Into the Woods and Mama Rose in Gypsy. She is the cofounder, with Mary Tyler Moore, of Broadway Barks, a charity that finds homes for shelter animals. Her passion for animals is the inspiration behind this book.

Liz Murphy was born in England and lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey. She is a graduate of the Kingston Art College, where she majored in graphic design.

LORI’S CORNER: The Key to Combating Pet Overpopulation: Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinic Program

Downtown Dog Rescue has always been very active in assisting homeless and very low income dog owners get their dogs spayed/neutered free of charge. Over the years, we have all volunteered at lots and lots of free spay/neuter events and have supported all the mobile clinic providers. Without The Amanda Foundation, Sam Simon and the newest mobile clinic Angel Dogs Foundation, most of the clients who get their dogs spayed/neutered would never get it done. Coupons, vouchers, Clinico and other low cost clinics are great, but going into a park, church, or school parking lot with a mobile clinic is the best way to get the dog owners that are the highest risk for allowing their dogs to have multiple litters of puppies.

Do we do these clinic because we just love dogs? We do these clinics because we care about the dog owners in some of the most violent neighborhoods in Los Angeles County, areas like South Central Los Angeles, Watts, or Compton. Even though the mobile clinic is right there, just across the street from the guy with four pit bulls and it’s free, it might not be enough to get him to walk over and ask for information. What we’ve found to be successful is to become a presence in the communities that we serve.

In 2010, Petsmart Charities awarded DDR with a grant to pay for 50% of the cost to spay/neuter 680 dogs living in the City of Compton. The other 50% was supposed to come from the County of Los Angeles Animal Control. We contract Sam Simon or Angel Dogs Foundation the second Saturday of each month, to spay/neuter at least 35 dogs in East Rancho Dominguez Park. Last month, we did a double day, operating our Clinic on Saturday and Sunday and July and August will also be double day months. The challenge is getting the agreed upon funding from the County of Los Angeles. It sure sounded simple when we started this project, provide proof of income for each dog owner and include a surgery receipt.

What we didn’t plan for were all the clients who have no income, are homeless, get paid in cash, are not entitled to any government services, don’t have any form of ID, refuse to give us a copy of their ID and people who just walk up to the clinic while walking their dog in the park and after a long conversation, talking the dog owner out of breeding their dog, we load the […]

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 […]

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